Sarah Jane Duncan

Brief Life History of Sarah Jane

When Sarah Jane Duncan was born on 26 January 1826, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Spencer Duncan Sr, was 32 and her mother, Nancy Scott, was 32. She married Robert D. Bell on 19 January 1847, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Big Spring, Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 13 November 1916, in Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Taylor Powell
1814–1887
Sarah Jane Duncan
1826–1916
Marriage: 23 December 1851
Benjamin T Powell
1853–
Silas T Powell
1854–1939
George F. Powell
1855–
Robert D. Powell
1857–1935
German G. Powell
1860–1925
Porter Price Powell
1861–1909
Ruth Lee Powell
1863–1915
Edward Spencer Powell
1864–1896
Sarah H Powell
1867–

Sources (21)

  • Sarah J Powel in household of W L Powel, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Sarah J Bell, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1959"
  • Sarah J Powell, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1955"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

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.

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .

Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.

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

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