Brief Life History of William Thomas Jefferson
When William Thomas Jefferson Brandon Sr. was born on 5 March 1806, in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, his father, John Brandon Sr., was 60 and his mother, Dinah Scott, was 24. He married Martha Jane Bunch about 1830, in Crittenden, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1848 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1856. He died after 1857, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Thos Branum, "United States Census, 1840"
- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Jefferson Brandon - Published information: birth-name: Thomas Jefferson Brandon Sr
- Thomas J. Brandon, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Brandon, in Durham, Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English brōm ‘broom, gorse’ + dūn ‘hill’. One in Lincolnshire, however, may be named after the Brant River, on which it stands; Ekwall derives the river name from Old English brant ‘steep’, presumably with reference to its steep banks. This surname was known in Ireland early enough to have a Gaelicized form de Breandún.
Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Breandáin ‘son of Breandán’, a rare Kerry surname from the Latinized form of the name of the local saint, Brendan (Brendanus from Bréanainn).
French: from the Old French oblique case of the personal name Brando, of ancient Germanic origin (see Brand 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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