Brief Life History of Richard Beverly
When Richard Beverly Brewster was born on 3 March 1851, in Randolph, Alabama, United States, his father, Rev. Van Allen Brewster, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Humphrey, was 28. He married Nancy J Stone on 27 June 1872, in Magnolia, Clinch, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Polk, Georgia, United States in 1880 and District 1469, Polk, Georgia, United States in 1900. He died on 26 June 1919, in Esom Hill, Polk, Georgia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Esom Hill, Polk, Georgia, United States.
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- Richard B Brewster in household of Van A Brewster, "United States Census, 1860"
- R. B. Brewster, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Richard B. Brewster, "Georgia, Deaths, 1914-1927"
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1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Haralson, Georgia, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from Middle English brewestere, browestere ‘(female) brewer’ (from Old English brēowan ‘to brew’). Brewer is the usual term in southern England, while Brewster is mainly midland, northern, and Scottish.
History: The Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster (1567–1644) was the son of the bailiff of the manor of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, home of one of the earliest Puritan congregations. He was a prominent leader in Plymouth Colony from the 1620s until his death.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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