Hannah Branson

Brief Life History of Hannah

When Hannah Branson was born on 27 October 1869, in Maries, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Garred Branson Jr., was 46 and her mother, Elvira Matilda Cox, was 37. She married Henry Peter Schwartz on 8 January 1890, in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Phelps, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Rolla Township, Phelps, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 12 May 1956, in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Peter Schwartz
1868–1954
Hannah Branson
1869–1956
Marriage: 8 January 1890
Ernest Henry Schwartz
1890–1893
Ralph H. Schwartz
1893–1983
Bertha Schwartz
1894–1981
Roy Elmer Schwartz
1897–1991
Elsie Martha Schwartz
1900–1907
Flora Annie Schwartz
1902–1972

Sources (17)

  • Anna Schwartz in household of Henry P Schwartz, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Hannah Branson, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Hannah Branson Schwartz, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

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: habitational name from any of several places: Branston in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Staffordshire, Brandeston in Suffolk, Brandiston in Norfolk, or Braunston in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. All are named with the Old English personal name Brant + tūn ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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