Brief Life History of John Claiborne
When John Claiborne Derryberry was born on 26 July 1858, in McNairy, McNairy, Tennessee, United States, his father, Newton Lorenzo Columbus Derryberry, was 33 and his mother, Nancy Ann Barnhill, was 27. He married Georgia Ann McCullar on 22 February 1882, in McNairy, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Civil District 6, McNairy, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Chewalla, McNairy, Tennessee, United States in 1947. He died on 20 January 1947, in Bolivar, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Indian Creek Cemetery, Chewalla, McNairy, Tennessee, United States.
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- John C Derryberry, "United States Census, 1940"
- J C Derryberry, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- John C Derry Berry, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Dürrenberger (see Durrenberger ). Compare Derreberry and Deberry .
History: The progenitor of the Derryberries was most likely (Johann) Michael Dürrenberger, one of three brothers who immigrated to North America in 1738 from Mertzwiller, Alsace, where they were born into a family of Swiss German origin. By 1749 he was in NJ (where one of his brothers had settled; see Terryberry ), but he later disappeared from the NJ records and apparently ended up in Burke County, NC in the 1760s, where he was first recorded as Michael Terenbargener. His descendants also bear other forms of the surname: Derreberry, Dereberry, Derebery, Derrberry, Dayberry, Dearybury, and DeBerry.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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