Brief Life History of Zerelda Ann
When Zerelda Ann Burr was born on 12 September 1837, in Shelbyville, Addison Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States, her father, Myranda Lorenzo Burr, was 24 and her mother, Emily Ellis, was 22. She married James N. Huffman about 1857, in Lamar, Barton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Walnut Township, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Rosedale, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died on 6 December 1922, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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- Zerilela Selder, "United States Census, 1870"
- Zerelda Ann Burt Or Burr, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Zerelda Ann Burr Selders, "Find A Grave Index"
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1840
Historical Boundaries 1840: Shelby, Indiana, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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