Brief Life History of Sarah Jane
When Sarah Jane Tilley was born on 22 February 1899, in Pineville, Wyoming, West Virginia, United States, her father, John Andrew Tilley, was 36 and her mother, Mary Jane Sizemore, was 37. She married Charley Irvin Billings on 2 May 1914, in Pineville, Wyoming, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 10 daughters. She lived in Mercer, West Virginia, United States in 1935 and Rock District, Mercer, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 11 May 1975, in Princeton, Mercer, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Princeton, Mercer, West Virginia, United States.
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- Sarah J Billings, "United States 1950 Census"
- Sarah J Tilley, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
- Sarah J Tilley, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Tilly-sur-Seulles (Calvados) or Tilly (Eure), France.
English: habitational name from Tyley in Wotton under Edge (Gloucestershire), Tiley in Minterne Magna (Dorset), or Tilley (Shropshire). The Gloucestershire and Dorset placenames derive from Old English tigel ‘tile’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. The Shropshire placename derives from an uncertain first element + Old English lēah.
English: occupational name from Middle English tilie ‘one who tills the land, a husbandman’. Compare Tiller .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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