When Derinda Agnes Sayers was born on 31 January 1852, in Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States, her father, Robert Floyd Sayers, was 47 and her mother, Elizabeth Magee Frogge, was 32. She married Ephraim Etchison Miller on 20 January 1875, in Tippecanoe, Tippecanoe Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Jackson Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Romney, Randolph Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 9 June 1938, in Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Jackson Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States.
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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.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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