Sarah "Sallie" Emma Nichols

Brief Life History of Sarah "Sallie" Emma

When Sarah "Sallie" Emma Nichols was born in June 1825, in Bedford, Bedford, Virginia, United States, her father, Jesse Nichols, was 49 and her mother, Sarah Or Sally Field, was 42. She married Meador Spradlin Jr on 10 October 1851, in Bedford, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and Staunton Magisterial District, Bedford, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 21 January 1900, in Nicholas, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 74.

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Family Time Line

Meador Spradlin Jr
1821–1900
Sarah "Sallie" Emma Nichols
1825–1900
Marriage: 10 October 1851
Mary A Spradlin
1842–
Andelica Malisha Spradling
1844–
Sarah Ann Spradlin
1848–1933
Emma Ann Spradlin
1852–1931
Martha Ellen Spradlin
1854–1945
John W Spradlin
1855–1895
Rebecca Pocahantas Spradlin
1857–1915
Elizabeth Frances Spradlin
1857–1935
Calvin M. Spradlin
1859–1864

Sources (39)

  • Sallie Spradlin in household of Sandy R. Martin, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Sarah Spradlin or Spradling, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
  • Sarah Emma Nichols Spradlin, "Find a Grave Index"

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.

1844 · Lumpkin's Jail

In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Nichol , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ); see also below.

Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.

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

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