Sarah Holton

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Holton was born about 1730, in Fauquier, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Alexander Eleazer Holton, was 21 and her mother, Elizabeth Brickey, was 20. She married Joseph Johnston about 1755, in Kentucky, United States. She died on 28 June 1820, in Mason, Grant, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 91.

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Joseph Johnston
1730–
Sarah Holton
1730–1820
Marriage: about 1755

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    1775

    "Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."

    1776

    Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

    1781 · The First Constitution

    Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of various places called Holton, such as those in Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Dorset, and Somerset. The Oxfordshire and Somerset placenames derive from Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the Suffolk placename comes from the Old English personal name Hōla + tūn. The Dorset placename derives from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ or holt ‘wood, grove, thicket’ + tūn.

    Irish: altered form of O'Haltahan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUltacháin ‘descendant of Ultachán’, a diminutive of Ultach ‘Ulsterman’. This is a rare Fermanagh surname, sometimes Anglicized as Nolan .

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

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