When Sarah E Starr was born in 1852, in Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States, her father, Christopher Christana Starr, was 35 and her mother, Lydia Ann Likins, was 32. She married Dr. John Henry Wroughton on 28 August 1873, in Delaware, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Spring Valley Township, Greene, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Xenia Township, Greene, Ohio, United States in 1870. She died in December 1876, in Delaware, Indiana, United States, at the age of 24.
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The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: from Middle English sterre ‘star’ (Old English steorra), used, like the Old Norse Stjarna, as a nickname, but also occasionally as a personal name. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the nickname denoted someone with a streak of white hair. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
English: in addition, the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational, referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a star (see 2 above). Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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