James Monroe Brewer

Brief Life History of James Monroe

When James Monroe Brewer was born in 1841, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, his father, Jonas Butler Brewer, was 35 and his mother, Margaret J Brewer, was 26. He married Nancy Pairlee Martin on 4 January 1872, in Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Prairie Township, Boone, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died on 10 November 1897, in Cherokee, Alfalfa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Daniel Brackett Cemetery, Sallisaw, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Monroe Brewer
1841–1897
Nancy Pairlee Martin
1856–1932
Marriage: 4 January 1872
William Walter Brewer
1873–
James Ambrose Brewer
1874–1937
Solomon Wilburn Brewer
1877–1910
Josephus Holbert Brewer
1880–
Jonas Elmer Brewer
1883–1897
Lucy Ella Brewer
1887–1965
Infant Brewer
1891–1891
Bertha Della Brewer
1891–

Sources (7)

  • James Jones in household of William Jones, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: James Monroe Brewer - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: James Monroe Brewer
  • James Monroe "J. M." Brewer, "Find A Grave Index"

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.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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