Brief Life History of Mary Caroline
When Mary Caroline Broyles was born in 1864, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, her father, Nelson Sevier Broyles, was 36 and her mother, Mary Caroline Johnson, was 35. She lived in District 1, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880.
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- Mary C Broyles in household of Nelson Broyles, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · Sultana Tragedy
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Breyhel, a variant of Breil, itself a variant of Brühl (see Bruehl ). The surname Breyhel is no longer found in Germany. Compare Briles .
History: Johannes Breyhel and his family, from Oetisheim in Württemberg, were among a group of German colonists sponsored by VA Governor Alexander Spotswood in 1714. They founded a settlement called Germanna in Orange County. Hans Jacob Breyhel (born 1705) was the ancestor of the Broyles family, while his brother Conrad was founder of the Briles family.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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