Missouri Martin

Brief Life History of Missouri

When Missouri Martin was born on 2 February 1847, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, her father, William Joseph Martin, was 37 and her mother, Eleanor Ellis, was 37. She married Marcel Valentine Burnette on 20 December 1867, in Bedford, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Otter District, Bedford, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Lynchburg, Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 27 May 1910, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Bedford, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Marcel Valentine Burnette
1844–1916
Missouri Martin
1847–1910
Marriage: 20 December 1867
William Henry Burnette
1868–1946
Ellis Crawford Burnett
1870–1958
Bettie Banks Burnette
1871–1918
Cornelia Roberta Burnett
1872–1957
Moses Leslie Burnett
1874–1935
Allen L Burnette
1876–1876
Clara Burnett
1877–
Lora Pernella Burnette
1879–1960
Carlettia Pearl Burnett
1882–1960
Claude Pinkney Burnett
1882–1964
Emma Vaughn Burnett
1885–1919
Colon Bruce Burnette
1886–1959

Sources (100)

  • Missouri Burnett in household of M V Burnett, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Missouri, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
  • Missouri E. Martin, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"

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1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1864 · Arlington Cemetery

Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.

English: variant of Marton .

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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