Brief Life History of Susanna Harietta Melvira
When Susanna Harietta Melvira Payne was born in 1826, in Franklin, Georgia, United States, her father, John Carroll Payne, was 31 and her mother, Jane Susan Walls, was 29. She married Goldman Ingram Bryson about 1844, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Monroe, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years and Mount Vernon, Monroe, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died in 1903, at the age of 77, and was buried in Tellico Plains, Monroe, Tennessee, United States.
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- Susanah Bryson in household of Golonan Bryson, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Susanna Payne - Government record: birth: November 1823;
- Susannah H M Payne Bryson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1853 · First State Fair
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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