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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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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