Sally Perkins Foss

Brief Life History of Sally Perkins

When Sally Perkins Foss was born on 11 August 1827, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, her father, Samuel Martin Foss, was 30 and her mother, Nancy Howe, was 29. She married Stephen G. Ferrin on 12 June 1851, in Pittsfield, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Alton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States in 1850. She died on 5 November 1864, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.

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Family Time Line

Stephen G. Ferrin
1826–1911
Sally Perkins Foss
1827–1864
Marriage: 12 June 1851
Clarence Edwin Ferrin
1851–1927
Augustus Warren Ferrin
1856–1932
Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Ferrin
1858–1912
Nellie Ferrin
1863–

Sources (6)

  • Sally P Foss, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Sally P. Foss, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Sallie P Ferrin, "Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Layman Cemetery Burial Records, 1860-1926"

World Events (7)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1837

1837: Fayette, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Fayette, Iowa Territory, United States 1843: Iowa Territory, Untied States 1846: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1849: Minnesota Territory, United States 1849: Dakota, Minnesota Territory, United States 1852: Hennepin, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Hennepin, Minnesota, United States

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: either topographic name from Middle English foss ‘ditch’ (from Old English foss ‘ditch’, Latin fossa) or a habitational name from one or more of the many places so named, such as Voss in Plympton Saint Mary and Great Fossend in Burlescombe (both Devon), the River Foss (North Yorkshire), Foss Beck (East Yorkshire), and the Fosse Way, a Roman road running between Lincoln (Lincolnshire) and Axminster (Devon) via Leicester (Leicestershire), Cirencester (Gloucestershire), and Bath (Somerset), named in the Old English period from the ditch that ran alongside it.

Danish: from fos, vos ‘fox’, applied as a nickname for a sly or cunning person, or as a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a fox.

Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’, examples of which are found throughout Norway.

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

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