Brief Life History of Sarah Palestine
When Sarah Palestine Wilson was born on 28 January 1848, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Christopher Collins Wilson, was 36 and her mother, Ursula Satterwhite Wilkerson, was 34. She married Lawson Scott English on 24 October 1866, in Caneyville, Grayson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Spring Lick, Grayson, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 2 Durbin, Grayson, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 21 June 1927, in Caneyville, Grayson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Caneyville Cemetery, Caneyville, Grayson, Kentucky, United States.
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- Pallie English, "United States Census, 1920"
- Sarah P. English, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1961"
- Pollie Wilson in entry for Andrew Ira Miller and Frances Ethel English, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1850
Historical Boundaries 1850: Grayson, Kentucky, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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