When Sarah Elizabeth McGinnis was born on 7 November 1837, in Adams Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States, her father, John McGinnis III, was 19 and her mother, Mary Polly Donaldson, was 19. She married Alexander Shake on 28 May 1857, in Morgan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Adams, Green Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died in 1915, at the age of 78, and was buried in Shumaker Cemetery, Eminence, Adams Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States.
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Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Aonghuis or Mag Aonghusa ‘son of Aonghus’ (see Angus ). This is the surname of a chieftain family in western County Down. Compare the Scottish form McInnis , and the variant McNeese . Compare also McGuinness .
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