Brief Life History of Sarah M
When Sarah M Post was born on 25 January 1871, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, Hoyt Post, was 31 and her mother, Helen Deborah Hudson, was 25. She married John B. Collins on 19 October 1893, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. She lived in Geneseo, Geneseo, Livingston, New York, United States in 1900 and Batavia, Genesee, New York, United States in 1910. She died on 27 July 1896, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- Sarah M Post in household of Hoit Post, "United States Census, 1880"
- Sarah Post, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Sarah M. Post, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Soldiers and Sailors Monument
The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a monument located in Downtown Detroit that was built in honor of those who lost their lives during the Civil War. The lowest sections of the monument have eagles with raised wings that guide the eye upward. The next section up has four male figures representing the Navy, Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery branches of the United States Army. Above them are four female figures that represent Victory, History, Emancipation, and Union. Capping the monument, an Amazon figure brandishes a sword in her right hand and a shield in her other. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.
North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.
Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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