When Sarah Ellen Kershaw was born on 18 July 1850, in Marshall, Indiana, United States, her father, David F Kershaw, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Fletcher, was 24. She married John Bazel Bowell on 18 March 1875, in Marshall, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 24 February 1884, in Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States.
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Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, probably from Kershaw in Middleton (Lancashire), named as ‘church wood’ (Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English sceaga ‘small wood, copse’). There are two minor places in Yorkshire called Kershaw, which may have been named after families bearing the Lancashire surname.
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