When Sarah F. Bullock was born on 15 January 1837, in Madison, Georgia, United States, her father, Major Richard Henley Bullock Sr., was 26 and her mother, Mary Mahuldah R. Griffith, was 20. She married Samuel Henry Ware on 2 January 1857, in Madison, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Georgia, United States in 1870. She died on 21 May 1899, at the age of 62, and was buried in Danielsville, Madison, Georgia, United States.
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A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
English (West Midlands): from Middle English bulluc, bullok ‘bullock’ (Old English bulluc), referring to a young bull, probably applied as a nickname for an exuberant young man or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of bullocks.
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