Brief Life History of Jane Bratcher
When Jane Bratcher Higginbotham was born on 25 June 1804, in Elbert, Georgia, United States, her father, Gabriel Higginbotham, was 23 and her mother, Janie Crittenden, was 17. She married Col. Joseph Milton McKenzie in 1825. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Caldwell, Texas, United States in 1850 and Guadalupe, Texas, United States in 1860. She died in May 1888, in London, Kimble, Texas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Saline, Menard, Texas, United States.
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- Jane B Keys in household of Th N Mc Kenzie, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jane B Jensy Higginbotham - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Jane B Jensy Higginbotham
- Jane Bratcher Higginbotham Keese, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1811 · The Savannah Riots
A barroom brawl in Savannah on Tuesday, November 12, 1811, had international impact. An American seaman boasted of having joined the crew of a French vessel, likely named La Vengeance. Others became upset at the idea of the American joining a foreign nation and a brawl erupted. The county coroner asked for peace but was beaten with clubs. A second clash occurred the following day when French sailors attacked five American seaman. A day after the second attack, twenty French sailors attacked six Americans. Four of them escaped but two were beaten and stabbed. Jacob Taylor died on the scene and a rigger named Collins died the following day. By Friday, a full scale riot erupted when the French crewmen arrested on murder charges were released. Many were arrested and French ships La Vengeance and La Franchise were burned. In the end, the incident caused disruptions in French-American relations and affected shipping and trade.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English (Cheshire): habitational name from Oakenbottom in Bolton le Moors (Lancashire), probably originally called ǣcen-botme ‘oaken valley’. During the Middle Ages this name became successively Eakenbottom and Ickenbottom, with the first element becoming associated with the Lancashire and Cheshire dialect word hicken or higgen ‘mountain ash’ or the personal name Higgin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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