When Isabell Burnett was born on 4 February 1873, in Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Burnett, was 46 and her mother, Rebecca Jane Sherrill, was 34. She had at least 5 sons and 6 daughters with Goldsboro Francis Swafford. She lived in Civil District 3, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Roane, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 12 June 1937, in Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Scottish and Irish (Tyrone and Antrim): descriptive nickname of Norman origin, from Old French burnete, a diminutive of brun ‘brown’ (see Brown ), or possibly in some instances a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of burnete, a high quality woolen cloth, originally dark brown in color.
Probably also an altered form of English Barnett .
In some cases also an altered form of French Burnet ; compare Burnette .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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