When Sarah Ellen Laybourne was born on 13 June 1856, in Mill Creek, Lincoln Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, her father, Boone Laybourn, was 35 and her mother, Clarisa W Ash, was 33. She married James M Barker on 15 May 1878, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Lincoln Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States in 1910 and La Porte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 July 1932, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Sauktown Cemetery, LaPorte, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1866: La Porte, Indiana, United States
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English (northern): habitational name from Leyburn in Yorkshire. The placename probably derives from Old English hlēg ‘shelter’ + burna ‘spring, stream’.
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