Sarah Emory Bingham

Female21 March 1829–14 December 1890

Brief Life History of Sarah Emory

When Sarah Emory Bingham was born on 21 March 1829, in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont, United States, her father, Chauncy Jeremiah Bingham, was 23 and her mother, Wealthia Chapman, was 24. She married Adna White in 1850, in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont, United States. She died on 14 December 1890, in Middlebury, Addison, Vermont, United States, at the age of 61.

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Adna White
1825–
Sarah Emory Bingham
1829–1890
Marriage: 1850

Sources (2)

  • Death Record - Sarah Bingham White
  • Sarah Bingham White, "Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1850Cornwall, Addison, Vermont, United States
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    Siblings (2)

    World Events (7)

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 1

    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    1834 · Vermont Anti-Slavery Society is Formed

    Age 5

    The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery. 

    1846

    Age 17

    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    Name Meaning

    English (Dorset) and Irish (County Mayo): habitational name from Bingham (Nottinghamshire). The placename is probably from an Old English folk-name Bynningas (‘the people associated with a man named Bynna’), or possibly from an unattested Old English word bing ‘a kettle-shaped hollow’, + Old English hām ‘homestead’.

    Irish (Ulster, of Scottish origin): altered form of Bigham .

    American shortened and altered form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames such as Bingenheimer .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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