When Mary Virginia Sayers was born on 27 February 1849, in Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States, her father, Robert Floyd Sayers, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Magee Frogge, was 29. She lived in Jackson Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. She died on 2 August 1896, at the age of 47, and was buried in Jackson Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States.
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Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: variant of Sayer , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This name is also established in Ireland.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair; see Sears .
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