Brief Life History of John Henry
When John Henry Bryant was born on 2 January 1817, in Moore, North Carolina, United States, his father, Elisha B Bryant Sr, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Autrey, was 23. He married Mary I. Turner in 1837, in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and District 9, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 12 July 1881, in Bolivar, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Bolivar, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States.
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- John Bryant, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Henry Bryant - Government record: birth-name: John Henry Bryant
- John Bryant, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Celtic personal name Brian (from brigo- ‘high’ + the suffix -ant-), with excrescent -t. Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They went on to settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish form Briain (see O'Brien ). The latter had also been borrowed, as Brján, by the Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.
Breton: very rare variant of Briant (see Briand ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
History: The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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