When Sarah Jane Voorhees was born on 9 November 1850, in Montgomery, New York, United States, her father, John Leslie Voorhees, was 44 and her mother, Catharine Ann Enders, was 40. She lived in Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States for about 25 years. She died on 11 March 1917, in New York, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Tribes Hill, Amsterdam, Montgomery, New York, United States.
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Dutch: habitational name from a farm called Voorhees, located in the hamlet of Hees near Ruinen, in the province of Drenthe. This surname is not found in the Netherlands. Compare Van Voorhees , Voorheis , Voorhies , Voorhis , Vorhees , and Voris .
History: Steven Coertse van Voorhees emigrated with his wife and children from the farm of Voorhees in the Netherlands and settled at New Amersfoort (now Flatlands) on Long Island, New Netherland (now NY), in 1660. Today the family Voorhees with its numerous branches is one of the largest, if not the largest, Dutch family in North America. The name is also established in the forms Van Voorhees, Voorheis, (Van) Voorhies, (Van) Voorhis, Vorhees, Voorheese, Vooris, Voorus, Voreis, Voress, Vorheis, Vorhes, (Van) Vorhies, (Van) Vorhis, Vories, (Van) Voris, (Van) Vorous, Vorus, Vorys, etc.
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