Brief Life History of John B
When John B Henry was born on 16 November 1790, in Tennessee, United States, his father, James Denton Henry, was 40 and his mother, Jane "Jean" McNabb, was 38. He married Esther Hetty C Gamble on 8 October 1817, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Blount, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died in 1854, at the age of 64, and was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Wilkes, Georgia, United States.
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- John Henry, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Henry, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Jno. Henry in entry for Laura H. Carter, "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912"
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1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1796 · Tennessee Becomes a State
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English, French, Walloon, and West Indian (mainly Jamaica and Haiti): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements haim, heim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power, ruler’, introduced to England by the Normans in the form Henri. During the Middle Ages this name became enormously popular in England and was borne by eight kings. Continental forms of the personal name were equally popular throughout Europe. In the period in which the majority of English surnames were formed, a common English vernacular form of the name was Harry, hence the surnames Harris (southern) and Harrison (northern). Official documents of the period normally used the Latinized form Henricus. In medieval times, English Henry absorbed an originally distinct Old English personal name that had hagan ‘hawthorn’ (compare Hain 2) as its first element, and there has also been confusion with Amery. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. German Heinrich , and also their derivatives, e.g. Swedish Henriksson (see Henrikson ). Compare Henri .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hInnéirghe ‘descendant of Innéirghe’, a byname based on éirghe ‘arising’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Éinrí or Mac Einri, patronymics from the personal names Éinrí, Einri, Irish forms of Henry. It is also found as a variant of McEnery .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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