Samuel Benjamin Barrett

Brief Life History of Samuel Benjamin

Samuel Benjamin Barrett was born on 8 October 1834, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States as the son of Samuel Jackson Barrett and Nancy DeBerry. He married Phoebe Jane Nichols on 30 April 1857, in Cannon, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Civil District 14, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and District 14, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died in 1900, in Cannon, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 66.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Benjamin Barrett
1834–1900
Phoebe Jane Nichols
1833–1872
Marriage: 30 April 1857
James Nathaniel Barrett
1858–1895
Sarah E. Barrett
1869–1899
William Murphy Barrett
1860–1931
Mary Ann Barrett
1862–1943
Samuel Jackson Barrett
1866–
John Henry Barrett Sr
1868–1937

Sources (14)

  • Samuel Barrett, "United States, Census, 1880"
  • Samul Berrett, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Sam Barrett, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

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World Events (8)

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.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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 and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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