When Sarah 'Sally Burr was born on 25 January 1801, in Greenbrier, Virginia, United States, her father, Aaron Burr, was 24 and her mother, Rebecca Collins, was 20. She married Abraham Hill in 1821, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Pocahontas, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 September 1862, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Hillsboro, Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
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English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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