When Sarah Ann Jolly was born on 3 April 1847, in Bladen, North Carolina, United States, her father, Reuben Jolly, was 48 and her mother, Elizabeth E. Harrelson, was 30. She married Haynes Lennon White on 3 December 1866, in Columbus, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Whiteville Township, Columbus, North Carolina, United States in 1900. She died on 3 October 1931, in Whiteville, Columbus, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Whiteville, Columbus, North Carolina, United States.
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The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English, Scottish, and French: nickname for someone of a cheerful or attractive disposition, from Middle English, Old French jolif, joli ‘cheerful, lively, pretty’. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the most common French variant Joly .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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