Brief Life History of John Luther
When John Luther Brown was born on 30 November 1861, in Mercer, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Wesley Brown, was 29 and his mother, Martha Jane Belcher, was 15. He married Emma Susan Dunbar on 4 June 1890, in Summers, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Green Sulphur Springs, Summers, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 20 August 1942, in Richmond, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Richmond, Virginia, United States.
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- John L Brown, "United States Census, 1930"
- John L Brown, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- John L Brown, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"
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1862 · The Battle of Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg involved 200,000 troops with General Ambrose Burnside of the army of the Potomac against General Lee’s Army of the North.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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