Sarah Varney

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Varney was born in 1856, in Pike, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Varney, was 40 and her mother, Mary Ann Romans, was 40. She married Nathan Cochran on 7 December 1873, in Pike, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870. She died in 1889, in Pike, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 33.

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Family Time Line

Nathan Cochran
1847–1926
Sarah Varney
1856–1889
Marriage: 7 December 1873
Sebert Cochran
1874–1968
William A. Cochran
1877–
Anna Octavia Cochran
1879–1956
Adron Cochran
1881–1960
Hibbard Cochran
1883–1938
James Marvin Cochran
1884–

Sources (14)

  • Sarah Varney in household of John Varney, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Sarah Varney, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Sarah Varney Cochran, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1863

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

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

Name Meaning

English: of Norman origin, a habitational name from a French place called Vernay, probably chiefly Saint-Paul-de-Vernay (Calvados). The placename comes from a derivative of Gaulish verno- ‘alder’ + the locative suffix -acum.

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

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