Brief Life History of Sila Persis
When Sila Persis Brown was born in 1863, in Stillman Valley, Ogle, Illinois, United States, her father, Albert Franklin Brown, was 44 and her mother, Eunice Cordelia Cothren, was 40. She married Joseph George Pratt on 30 December 1884, in Ogle, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States for about 10 years and Hilo, Hawaii, Hawaii, United States in 1930.
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Sources (11)
- Sila R Brown in household of A F Brown, "United States Census, 1880"
- Sila P Brown, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Mrs Sila Pratt in entry for Mrs Cora Brown Hannum, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1876
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Ogle, Illinois, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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