Brief Life History of Henry C
When Henry C Burnham was born in 1844, in Logan, Arkansas, United States, his father, Isaac Newton Burnham, was 45 and his mother, Polly Ann Thompson, was 40. He married Emily Malinda Roady on 5 July 1866, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Johnson, Arkansas, United States in 1866 and Arkansas, United States in 1870. He died in 1888, at the age of 44.
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- Henry Burnham, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Henry C Burnham - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Henry Burnham
- Henry C Burnham, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called Burnham. Those in Buckinghamshire (Burnham Beeches), Norfolk (various villages), and Essex (Burnham-on-Crouch) are named with Old English burna ‘stream’ + hām ‘homestead’. In the case of Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, however, the second element is Old English hamm ‘water meadow’, while Burnham in Lincolnshire is named from brunnum, dative plural of Old Norse brunnr ‘spring’, originally used after a preposition, i.e. ‘(at) the springs’.
History: In 1635 Robert Burnham and his two brothers came from England to Ipswich, MA, after their ship was wrecked on the coast of Maine. In the mid 18th century John Burnham and his son, also called John, were among the early settlers in what became the state of VT. In 1785, the younger John Burnham established himself at Middletown, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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