Brief Life History of Sarah Jane
When Sarah Jane Dillon was born on 24 October 1825, in County Carlow, Ireland, her father, Joseph Dillon, was 22 and her mother, Mary Riley, was 15. She married George Edwards Huff on 12 September 1843, in Zone, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Sombra Township, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 15 February 1906, in Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States.
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- Sarah Huff, "Ontario Census, 1861"
- Sarah Harper in entry for William Selman and Mary Ann Sweet, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Sarah Huff in household of George Huff, "Canada Census, 1881"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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