Brief Life History of John Anna
When John Anna Benjamin was born on 17 September 1846, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, her father, John C Benjamin, was 44 and her mother, Anna Maria Gillon, was 28. She married William Henry Fishburne on 4 April 1867, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1870 and Saint Johns, Berkeley, South Carolina, United States in 1880. She died on 30 October 1917, in Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Sumter Cemetery, Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States.
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- Johnana Fishburn in household of William H Fishburn, "United States Census, 1870"
- Place of birth given as Brooklyn, New York in book written by my uncle, Henry G. Fishburne.
- Johnanna Benjamin Pinckney, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1943"
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1848 · Fire Causes $1.5 Million in Damages
"""A fire in September of 1848 caused an estimated $1.5 million in damages to the city of Brooklyn. The fire consumed """"three churches, the post office, two newspaper offices, and other property."""""""
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
Jewish (Sephardic and Ashkenazic), English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania); Hungarian (Benjámin): from the Hebrew male personal name Binyāmīn ‘Son of the South’. In the Book of Genesis, it is treated as meaning ‘Son of the Right Hand’. The two senses are connected, since in Hebrew the south is thought of as the right-hand side of a person who is facing east. Benjamin was the youngest and favorite son of Jacob and supposed progenitor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel (Genesis 35:16-18; 42:4). The personal name was not common among Gentiles in the Middle Ages, but its use was sanctioned by virtue of having been borne by a Christian saint martyred in Persia in about AD 424. In some cases in medieval Europe it was also applied as a byname or nickname to the youngest (and beloved) son of a large family; this is the sense of modern French benjamin. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean Benyamin and Italian Beniamino.
History: John Benjamin (1598–1645) came from England to Watertown, MA, in 1632. Jean-Baptiste Benjamin dit Saint-Aubin from France married Jeanne Allard in QC in 1704.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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