Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Davis was born on 8 November 1899, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Lehi Reuben Davis, was 42 and her mother, Mary Catherine Chapple, was 37. She lived in Utah, United States in 1899 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 11 February 1908, at the age of 8, and was buried in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Sarah Davis in household of Lehi R. Davis Sr., "United States Census, 1900"
- Unknown, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- Sarah Davis, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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World Events (6)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · The Daughters of Utah Pioneers
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized by Annie Taylor Hyde after she invited a group of fifty-four women to her home to find ways to recognize names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers. They followed the lead of other national lineage societies, such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. They were legally incorporated in 1925.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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