Brief Life History of Mina Amanda Elmina
When Mina Amanda Elmina Henson was born in December 1865, in Election Precinct 1 Cullman, Cullman, Alabama, United States, her father, John H Henson, was 35 and her mother, Jane Bratcher, was 29. She married Phillip Asberry Bryant on 17 March 1881, in Cullman, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 18 Ryans Crossroads, Morgan, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Baileyton, Cullman, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. She died on 29 December 1920, in Hulaco, Morgan, Alabama, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Hulaco, Morgan, Alabama, United States.
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- Mandy Henson in household of John Henson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mina Henson, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Bryant, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1877
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Blount, Alabama, United States 1877: Cullman, Alabama, United States
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal names Hen, Hend(e), or Hendy (pet forms of Henry or Hendry ) + son. Compare Henderson . Hendy may also have been derived from Middle English hendy ‘courteous’, used as a personal name (see Hendy ).
English: perhaps sometimes a variant of Hainson, a patronymic meaning ‘son of Hayne’; see Hain 2.
English: in Devon, where patronymics in -son rarely originated, perhaps a variant of Hingston .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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