Sarah Hollingsworth

Femaleabout 1816–1831

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Hollingsworth was born about 1816, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Joseph Hollingsworth, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Hutchins, was 18. She died in 1831, at the age of 16.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Hollingsworth
1789–1849
Elizabeth Hutchins
1799–1833
Sarah Hollingsworth
1816–1831
Anderson Hutchins Hollingsworth
1818–1865
Horatio Hollingsworth
1821–1852
Johnson Hollingsworth
1823–1824
Amanda Hollingsworth
1825–1870
Keziah Hollingsworth
1833–1863
James Hollingsworth
1828–

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    World Events (3)

    1819 · Panic! of 1819

    Age 3

    With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

    1820 · Making States Equal

    Age 4

    The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

    1830 · Trail of Tears

    Age 14

    In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from Hollingworth (Cheshire), Hollingworth in Butterworth (Lancashire), or possibly Hollinworth Head in Charlesworth (Derbyshire), from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + worth ‘enclosure’. The surname, which was taken to Ireland in the 17th century, has developed a variant with an unexplained medial -s- not noted in any of the placename forms.

    Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish name.

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

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