When Sarah Jane Bowen was born on 19 January 1842, in Platte City, Clay, Missouri, United States, her father, John E Bowen, was 29 and her mother, Jane Lynch, was 29. She married Eli Aaron Cain on 4 March 1866, in Platte City, Clay, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Alexandria, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Union Township, Jefferson, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 13 November 1919, in McLouth, Jefferson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Wildhorse Township, Graham, Kansas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Leavenworth, Kansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen ), with fused patronymic marker (a)p, which is normally voiced before a vowel.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan ).
Irish: used to ‘translate’ Ó Cnáimhín ‘descendant of Cnáimhín’, a personal name meaning ‘little bone’ or ‘little body’, see Nevin 1.
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