Brief Life History of Nelson Hebron
When Nelson Hebron Bryan was born on 7 February 1860, in Shop Springs, Wilson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Nelson Jimmerson Bryan, was 46 and his mother, Minerva Jane Waters, was 37. He married Mattie Susan Floyd on 11 October 1882, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 19, Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 27 September 1942, in Shop Springs, Wilson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Bryan Cemetery, Shop Springs, Wilson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Nelson Bryant in household of Nelson J Bryant, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nelson Bryan, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Nelson Bryan, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: variant of Bryant .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Briain, see O'Brien .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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