Helen Betsey Bryant

Brief Life History of Helen Betsey

When Helen Betsey Bryant was born on 5 May 1845, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Elias Mather Bryant, was 26 and her mother, Lydia Maria Wheaton, was 25. She married Gilbert F Miller on 17 June 1863, in Lanesboro, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Des Moines Township, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1885 and Boone, Iowa, United States in 1908. She died on 21 March 1908, in Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Linwood Park Cemetery, Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Gilbert F Miller
1839–1928
Helen Betsey Bryant
1845–1908
Marriage: 17 June 1863
George Elias Miller
1867–1881
Cora Alice Miller
1877–1958
Gilbert Fred Miller
1883–1942

Sources (19)

  • Helen Miller in household of Gilbert F Miller, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
  • Helen B. Miller, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
  • Helenn Bryant in entry for Cora A Ringland, "Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1846

Iowa is the 29th state.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

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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