Brief Life History of Amanda Louise
When Amanda Louise Brown was born on 26 May 1837, in Dickson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Joshua Brown, was 23 and her mother, Susannah Gober, was 17. She married William Rufus Proctor on 26 December 1850, in Dickson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Civil District 8, Dickson, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 11 June 1911, in Dickson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Dickson, Tennessee, United States.
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- M Proctor in household of W R Procton, "United States Census, 1860"
- Amanda Louise Brown, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Mandy Brown, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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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, 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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