Sarah Franklin

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Franklin was born in 1821, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, her father, John F Franklin, was 26 and her mother, Mary Benton Wade, was 26. She married Hiram Hale on 15 August 1835, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Indian Valley, Floyd, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died about 1890, in Floyd, Virginia, United States, at the age of 70.

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Family Time Line

Hiram Hale
1810–1863
Sarah Franklin
1821–1890
Marriage: 15 August 1835
John Powell Hale
1838–1863
James Marion Hale
1840–1887
Margaret A. Hale
1849–
Simon P Hale
1842–
Virginia Frances Hale
1854–1925
Sarah Elizabeth Hale
1856–1932
Lucinda Hale
1857–
Salona Isabell Hale
1859–1939
Hale
1861–1861

Sources (25)

  • Sarah Quesenberry in household of Wm Quesenberry, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Sarah, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
  • Sarah Hale, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"

World Events (8)

1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land

A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.

1824 · """Mary Randolph Publishes """"The Virginia Housewife"""""""

“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America. 

1844 · Lumpkin's Jail

In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.

Name Meaning

English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .

History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.

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

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