When Sarah Henry Anderson was born on 3 January 1807, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States, her father, Thomas Anderson, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Tate Anthony, was 32. She married Robert Pinkney Webster on 17 December 1828, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Holmes, Mississippi, United States in 1850 and Lexington, Holmes, Mississippi, United States in 1860. She died after 1870, in Mississippi, United States, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Lexington, Holmes, Mississippi, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Mississippi is the 20th state.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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