Sarah Ann Finley was born on 22 March 1829, in Washington Township, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States. She married Moses Mecham about 1851, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lynden Election Precinct, Furnas, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Furnas, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 2 September 1901, at the age of 72.
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Historical Boundaries: 1849: Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States
Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), from fionn ‘white, fair’ (see Finn ) + laoch ‘hero’, reinforced by an Old Norse name based on finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’ or ‘hero’. The name is common in Ireland as well as Scotland.
English: habitational name from one or more lost, unidentified or altered placenames so named, such as Philleyholme, Dorset (recorded as Finelegh in 1280) derived from Old English fīna ‘wood-pecker’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Also a variant of Findlow, from Finlow Hill in Over Alderley, Cheshire (from Old English fīn ‘heap’ + hlāw ‘mound, hill’ meaning ‘heaped mound’).
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