William Sutherland

Brief Life History of William

When William Sutherland was born on 18 March 1804, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his father, Silas Sutherland, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Ann Cummins, was 18. He married Nancy White on 26 August 1823, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Jackson Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 24 July 1885, in Waymansville, Jackson Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Bartholomew, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Sutherland
1804–1885
Malinda Scott
1816–1904
Marriage: 19 September 1839
Bluford Sutherland
1831–1922
Abraham Sutherland
1840–1931
Nancy Ann Sutherland
1842–1934
Susannah Sutherland
1844–1895
John A. Sutherland
1847–1938
William Sutherland
1850–1950
James M Sutherland
1852–
Silas Sutherland
1854–1856
Vandiver B. Sutherland
1856–1943

Sources (19)

  • Wm Sutherland, "United States Census, 1880"
  • William Sutherland, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • William Sutherland, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1821

Historical Boundaries: 1821: Bartholomew, Indiana, United States

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.

Name Meaning

Scottish (Caithness): habitational name from the Scottish county of Sutherland, named with Old Norse súthr ‘south, southern’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

History: This is the name of a Highland Scottish clan associated with the county of Sutherland.

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

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