When Sarah "Jane" Queen was born on 12 August 1872, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, her father, Robert Henry Queen, was 39 and her mother, Nancy Stroup, was 39. She married Robert Lee Ray Sr on 7 January 1890, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Pigeon Township, Haywood, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years and South Point Township, Gaston, North Carolina, United States in 1910. She died on 2 March 1916, in Sunburst, Haywood, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Sunburst Cemetery, Canton, Haywood, North Carolina, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Scottish: shortened form of McQueen .
English: from the Middle English female personal name Quene, sometimes a pet form of Quenill (Old English Cwēnhild, from cwēn ‘queen’ + hild ‘battle’). Early examples of the name are mainly from southern England, especially Sussex, but its currency in late medieval northern England has also been suggested by records from Yorkshire.
English: possibly a nickname from Middle English quene ‘woman; harlot; crone’ (Old English cwēn), but this is less likely than 2 to have given rise to a hereditary surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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