Brief Life History of Jennet 'Nettie' Burch
When Jennet 'Nettie' Burch Brown was born on 6 October 1868, in Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Albert Roberts, was 33 and her mother, Mary Jenett Burch, was 34. She married William Edley Brown on 3 August 1887, in Curdsville, Daviess, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Curdsville, Daviess, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Hillsborough, Florida, United States in 1910. She died on 20 September 1933, in Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States.
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- Nettie Roberts, "United States Census, 1880"
- Nettie Burch Brown, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
- Jeanette Birch Brown in entry for Shirley C. Brown, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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