Sarah Elizabeth Workman

Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth

When Sarah Elizabeth Workman was born on 19 January 1854, in Chatham Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, John Workman, was 29 and her mother, Caroline Campbell, was 19. She married Stephen W Workman on 8 April 1875, in Chatham, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Loami, Sangamon, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. She died on 13 January 1933, in Chatham, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Campbell Cemetery, Loami Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Stephen W Workman
1853–1895
Sarah Elizabeth Workman
1854–1933
Marriage: 8 April 1875
Nancy Jane Workman
1867–1965
Workman
1894–1894
Charles Workman
1868–
Flora Workman
1876–1898
Melvin Workman
1878–1953
Olive F. Workman
1880–1963
Fairy Grace Workman
1883–1963
Bertha Estella Workman
1886–1962
Dewitt Talmage "Witt" Workman
1888–1970
Dora R. Workman
1890–1986
Russell Walter Workman
1892–1973

Sources (15)

  • Sarah Elizabeth Workman in household of John Workman, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Sarah Elizabeth Workman, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Sarah E. Workman, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"

World Events (8)

1855

Historical Boundaries: 1855: Sangamon, Illinois, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

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.

Name Meaning

English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.

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

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