Isaac Christopher Brakefield

Brief Life History of Isaac Christopher

When Isaac Christopher Brakefield was born on 18 September 1841, in Lawrence, Mississippi, United States, his father, Burrel Smith Brakefield, was 29 and his mother, Mary Polly Burt, was 29. He married Epsey P. McNeese on 3 April 1871, in Marion, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Columbia, Marion, Mississippi, United States in 1880. He died on 28 January 1898, in Marion, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Old Bunker Hill Cemetery, Bunker Hill, Marion, Mississippi, United States.

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Isaac Christopher Brakefield
1841–1898
Epsey P. McNeese
1853–1937
Marriage: 3 April 1871
Burrell Smith Breakfield
1874–1943
Mary Elizabeth Breakfield
1876–1953
Martha "Mattie" Breakfield
1879–1962
Charlie Edgar Breakfield
1883–1967

Sources (9)

  • Cristopher Brakefield in household of Burwell Brakefield, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Isaac C. Brakefield, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
  • Isaac C. Breakfield, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1861

Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English (Kent): topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) bracken-covered open land’, from Middle English brake ‘thicket, patch of brushwood’ or braken ‘bracken, fern’ (corresponding to the northern bracken) + feld ‘flat open country’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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