Brief Life History of Anna Ritta
When Anna Ritta Burchfield was born on 25 March 1853, in Pickens, South Carolina, United States, her father, Eli Campbell Burchfield, was 25 and her mother, Mary Ann Harbin, was 22. She married Thomas Jesse Bryan in 1876, in Oconee, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in District 455, Jackson, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 19 June 1919, in Maysville, Jackson, Georgia, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Oconee Baptist Church Cemetery, Commerce, Jackson, Georgia, United States.
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- Ritta Bryant in household of Jesse Thos. Bryant, "United States Census, 1880"
- Anna Ritta Bryant, "Georgia Deaths, 1914-1927"
- Unknown in entry for Luther J Bryan, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"
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Children (6)
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World Events (8)
1860
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871 · KKK Supression
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
Name Meaning
English (Sussex): habitational name from Birchfield (Staffordshire), Birchfields (Lancashire), or any of various minor places called Birchfield, from Old English birce ‘birch’ + feld ‘open country’. No medieval evidence for the name has been found.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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