Life History

Notes

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  John Burel's widow, Patience Hanna Bird Burel, was still living in the Union District of South Carolina in 1848, when she applied for a widow's pension based on Jean/John Burel's service in the Revolutionary War. In that application she declared that she "is the widow of Dr. John Burelle who was a surgeon in the French Army & Navy in America under Major General Lafayette & served in that capacity with the Allied forces from the time he entered the service in 1778 until the French Army was discharged at the close of the War, and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the Allied forces of France and America under General Washington and General LaFayette & other French officers at Yorktown."
  
  She enclosed a certificate of her marriage and John's French medical license, which prove that Jean Baptiste Elzeard Burel of Ollioules Frances and John Burel of Goshen Hill were the same individual. According to those who have written about Jean Burel's life and history, the certificate and license are in the archives of the Veterans' Administration.
  --  Janice Tracy, Mississippi Memories, http://mymississippimemories.blogspot.com/2009/03/burel-family-pennsylvaniaunion-county.html
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  "Dr. John's grave has been located and a marker has placed. It is located in Union County, SC on the Randolph Jenkins place where he resided. Original markers of Dr. John and Patience are in disrepair and few letters can barely be made out."
  --  Anonymous comment on a blog, Mississippi Memories, September 22, 2013, http://mymississippimemories.blogspot.com/2009/03/burel-family-pennsylvaniaunion-county.html
  
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  Patience Hannah Bird
  
  Patience Hannah Bird was the daughter of Jonathan Bird and Marie Blanche Hebert (pronounced abair).  Marie Blanche was born an Hebert in Acadia and was deported by the British along with her husband John Cellier in 1755.  They were sent by ship to Philadelphia where they detained aboard ship for a time. John Cellier died a couple of years after that and Marie Blanche Hebert eventually married Jonathan Bird.
  
  Marie Blanche and Cellier are well documented in Acadian lineage and Marie Blanche Hebert traces back to the original settlers of Acadia.  Any questions you may have about this can be followed up on the Acadian genealogy group on Facebook.  I have absolutely no info on Jonathan Bird past the fact that he married Marie Blanche.
  --  Butch Burel, Find a Grave Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 16 April 2016
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  Thanks to Butch Burel for this well-stated summary of Patience's heritage.  This clarifies that Patience was not born in Acadia, and that her father was American.  Her mother was Acadian, but Hannah was born in Philadelphia.
  
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  Patience Hanna Bird Burel
  Birth abt 1760 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Death after 1848 Goshen Hill, Union County, South Carolina
  
  No exact date has been found for Patience's birth and death.  She was born about 1760, and died after 1848, when she applied for a widow's military pension.
  
  She applied for a widow's pension in 1848, based on Jean's service with the French and American Allied forces in the American Revolution.  Jean Baptiste Elzeard Burel was present at the surrender of Cornwallis.
  
  One or more commentators state that Patience was an Acadian.  Her mother was Acadian, being born an Hebert in Acadia, (later Novia Scotia), Canada, a descendant of the original Acadian French settlers.  But her father was American, and Patience was born in Philadelphia.  Butch Burel provided a summary of Patience's heritage.
  
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  Patience Hannah Bird was the daughter of Jonathan Bird and Marie Blanche Hebert (pronounced abair).  Marie Blanche was born an Hebert in Acadia and was deported by the British along with her husband John Cellier in 1755.  They were sent by ship to Philadelphia where they detained aboard ship for a time. John Cellier died a couple of years after that and Marie Blanche Hebert eventually married Jonathan Bird.
  
  Marie Blanche and Cellier are well documented in Acadian lineage and Marie Blanche Hebert traces back to the original settlers of Acadia.  Any questions you may have about this can be followed up on the Acadian genealogy group on Facebook.  I have absolutely no info on Jonathan Bird past the fact that he married Marie Blanche.
  --  Butch Burel, 16 April 2016
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  In Philadelphia, on 22 Feb 1785, Patience married a French doctor named Jean Baptiste Elzeard (or Elezard) Burel, who was a doctor in service to the French forces fighting with the American Revolutionary army.
  
  She had 6 children in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before they moved to Goshen Hill, in Union District of South Carolina sometime after August 1804, when their last child was born in Philadelphia. There she and Jean/John lived out the rest of their lives, closely associated with the Jenkins family there.
  
  Patience died some time after 1848, when she applied for a military pension based on Dr John's Revolutionary War service.
  
  Spouse Jean Baptist Elzeard Burel (1757 - 1828)
  
  Burial Randolph Jenkins Farm, Goshen Hill, Union County, South Carolina
  
  Created by Orville Jenkins Mar 05, 2015 (updated 16 March 2016)
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #143350731, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143350731/patience-hanna-burel
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. Mississippi Memories
• 3. Find a Grave Messages
• 4. Ancestry Trees
• 5. 1850 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 4 September, Township 12, Range 5E, page 104B, Hse/Fam #126
• 6. 1860 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 20 October, Township 13, Range 5, PO Attalaville, page 233 (scan 493), Hse #1476, Fam #1618
• 7. 1860 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi
  • 20 October, Township 13, Range 5, PO Attalaville, page 233 (scan 493), Hse #1475, Fam #1617
• 8. Burel, Jean Baptiste Elzear, Grave Marker, Randolph Jenkins Farm, Union County, South Carolina
• 9. Cemeteries of Dancing Rabbit Creek