Brief Life History of David Basil
When David Basil Brewer was born in October 1839, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Joshua Brewer, was 37 and his mother, Mrs. Brewer, was 34. He married Mary Ann Van Fleet on 29 August 1861, in Hart, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Edmonson, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 1 Munfordville, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1900. In 1880, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as farmer in Edmonson, Kentucky, United States. He died before 1925, in Kentucky, United States.
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- David Brewer, "United States Census, 1900"
- David Brewer, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979"
- David Brewer, "United States Census, 1870"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from Middle English brewere ‘brewer’ (an agent derivative of Old English brēowan ‘to brew’). Compare Brewster .
English (of Norman origin): Anglicized form of French Bruyère (see Bruyere ), a habitational name from a place so called in Calvados, France, from Old French bruiere ‘heath’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Brouwer , German Brauer or Breuer , etc., all occupational names meaning ‘brewer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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