Brief Life History of Saraphine
When Saraphine Lynn was born on 26 January 1856, in Massac, Illinois, United States, her father, Pitts Lynn, was 34 and her mother, Mary Polly S Miles, was 35. She married Thomas Gilford Throgmorton on 5 October 1873, in Pope, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Jefferson Number 4 Precinct, Pope, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 1, Ballard, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 31 October 1938, in Ballard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Needmore, Ballard, Kentucky, United States.
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- Phine Throgmorton in household of Thomas Throgmorton, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Phine Lynn - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Sarah Phine Lynn
- Sarah F Lyn, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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before 1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1877
Historical Boundaries - 1877: Ballard, Kentucky, United States
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
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn ).
Scottish: variant of Lyne 3.
English: habitational name from any of several places so called in Norfolk, in particular King's Lynn, an important center of the medieval wool trade. The placename is probably from an Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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