Sarah Elizabeth Allen

Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth

When Sarah Elizabeth Allen was born on 5 March 1855, in Pierce, Georgia, United States, her father, John Matthew Allen Jr, was 20 and her mother, Sarah Ann Moody, was 19. She married Richard Allibihaw James on 1 February 1872, in Ware, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in District 1061, Clinch, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Glenmore, Ware, Georgia, United States in 1900. She died on 31 December 1913, in Clinch, Georgia, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Ware, Georgia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Richard Allibihaw James
1853–1929
Sarah Elizabeth Allen
1855–1913
Marriage: 1 February 1872
Ocie Ann James
1873–1930
Sarah Jane James
1875–1963
John Allen James
1876–1963
Isadora E or Dora James
1879–1964
Nancy Alice James
1880–1919
Thomas Seward James
1882–1945
Noah James
1884–1884
James Washington James
1885–1949
Courntney Elizabeth James
1886–1956
Hattie Jane James
1887–1969
Willis H James
1888–1947
Richard Crum James
1890–1959
Florence Arabel James
1892–1892
Laurie Irwin James
1894–1949
Robert Lee James
1896–1985

Sources (9)

  • Elizabeth Overstreet in household of John Overstreet, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Elizabeth Allen - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Elizabeth A. Allen
  • Sarah Elizabeth Allen James, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1857

Historical Boundaries: 1857: Pierce, Georgia, United States

1863

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

1872 · The First National Park

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.

English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).

French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.

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

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