Anna Ritta Burchfield

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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Family Time Line

Thomas Jesse Bryan
1849–1901
Anna Ritta Burchfield
1853–1919
Marriage: 1876
Odessa Bryant
1876–1940
Leila Bryan
1880–1942
May Pearl Bryan
1878–1955
Luther Jesse Bryan Sr.
1882–1927
Gustava Bryan
1885–
John W Bryan
1890–1967

Sources (10)

  • 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"

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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