When Sarah Paris was born on 23 May 1784, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Robert Alexander Paris, was 33 and her mother, Ann Howe, was 28. She married Joshua Harrison Jr. on 17 March 1803, in Shelby, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Scott Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died on 27 June 1854, at the age of 70, and was buried in Ladoga Cemetery, Ladoga, Clark Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States.
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French and English (via Norman French): from the Old French personal name Paris, a variant of Patrice, Patris (from Latin Patricius, from patricius ‘patrician, nobleman’; see Patrick ), which became associated with the name of the Trojan prince Paris in Homer's Iliad (see Parise 1). Compare Parris .
English: habitational name from the city of Paris in France. The placename is taken from the name of a Celtic people, the Parisii, who settled on the banks of the River Seine in pre-Roman times.
Catalan (París): from a shortened form of the personal name Aparici (see Aparicio ).
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