Bettie Netter

Brief Life History of Bettie

When Bettie Netter was born on 20 August 1838, in Alsace, France, her father, Baruch Nettre Netter, was 37 and her mother, Flora Ullmann, was 38. She married Samuel Benjamin on 19 April 1861, in Port Gibson, Claiborne, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Adams, Mississippi, United States in 1870. She died on 22 March 1925, in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Benjamin
1838–1922
Bettie Netter
1838–1925
Marriage: 19 April 1861
Louis N Benjamin
1862–1868
Phillip Ullman Benjamin
1864–1918
Jesse Netter Benjamin
1865–1890
Jenny Benjamin
1866–
Isaac Ullman Benjamin
1867–1867
Beulah Benjamin
1868–1946
Lily Benjamin
1870–1911
Flora Benjamin
1873–1959
Leon B Benjamin
1875–1890
Helen Ione Benjamin
1877–1969
Hortense Benjamin
1879–1966

Sources (7)

  • Betie Benjamin, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Bettie Netter Benjamin, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Betty Nettre in entry for Samuel L. Benjamin, "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1848

Revolution. Second Republic. First laws on labor, the press and education.

1863

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

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a net-maker, from Middle English netter ‘net-maker’.

English: occupational name for a cattle-herder, from Middle English nete-herd ‘cattle-herd’ (Old English nēat + hierde).

German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): variant of Nader .

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

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