Sarah Elizabeth Weatherly

Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth

When Sarah Elizabeth Weatherly was born on 23 December 1798, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, her father, Job Weatherly, was 38 and her mother, Mary Watters, was 31. She married Nathaniel Laird on 1 February 1820, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters.

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Family Time Line

Nathaniel Laird
1800–1860
Sarah Elizabeth Weatherly
1798–
Marriage: 1 February 1820
Lydia "Liddy" Laird
1828–1880
Carolina Laird
David Laird

Sources (3)

  • Elizabeth Weatherly, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Elizabeth Weatherly, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
  • Elizabeth Weatherly, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"

World Events (8)

1799 · Gold Nuggets Found

In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow ""rock"" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the ""rock"" was a gold nugget.

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

English: perhaps a habitational name from Wetherley in Barrington (Cambridgeshire); or perhaps in some cases from Witherley (Leicestershire). The Cambridgeshire placename derives from Old English wether ‘wether, castrated ram’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’; the Leicestershire placename derives from the Old English personal name Wīgthryth + Old English lēah.

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

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