Brief Life History of William C
When William C Barrett was born on 8 April 1838, in Ohio, United States, his father, Squire Barrett, was 32 and his mother, Rachel Lewis, was 33. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Mary VanAmburg. He lived in Huron, Erie, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Marysville, Marshall, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 29 October 1914, in Kansas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in South Star Cemetery, Graham, Kansas, United States.
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- Squire Barrett, "United States Census, 1870"
- William C Barrett, "Find A Grave Index"
- William C Barritt in entry for Bessie May Barritt, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Kansas Territory, United States 1855: Marshall, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Marshall, Kansas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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