Callie Elizabeth Davis Brown, a 69-year-old Black woman, came to Atlanta, Georgia, in June 1945 to visit her daughter, Roberta. What should have been an ordinary family stay ended in sudden loss. On June 17, 1945, Brown died in Atlanta while in her daughter’s home, and the available online sources indicate that her death at the time was treated as sudden, with the cause left undetermined. Later records place her burial back in Watkinsville, tying the end of her life to the same rural Georgia r
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