Sabra Bridget Slack

Brief Life History of Sabra Bridget

When Sabra Bridget Slack was born in 1790, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States, her father, William Slack Jr, was 40 and her mother, Lucy Breed, was 36. She married Ephraim Williams Wheeler on 15 January 1815, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States. She died on 16 October 1817, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Wheeler Cemetery, North Society of Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States.

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Ephraim Williams Wheeler
1788–1851
Sabra Bridget Slack
1790–1817
Marriage: 15 January 1815

Sources (10)

  • Sabra Slack, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
  • Sabra Wheeler, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
  • Sabra Wheeler, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"

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1791

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1798

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Name Meaning

English and Dutch: nickname for an idle person, from Middle Dutch slac, Middle English slak ‘lazy, careless, slow’ (Old English slæc).

English: from Middle English slak ‘small shallow valley, hollow in the ground’ (Old Norse slakki). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a shallow valley or hollow, or habitational, for someone from any of numerous minor places so named, principally in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire.

Americanized form of Slovenian Slak 1 and perhaps also of Czech Šlak (see Slak 2).

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

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