Sarah "Sallie" Argo

Brief Life History of Sarah "Sallie"

When Sarah "Sallie" Argo was born in August 1848, in Warren, Tennessee, United States, her father, George W. Argo, was 32 and her mother, Mary Nunley, was 21. She married Ethrelbred Dredmon "Dred" Roberts on 2 November 1868, in McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Civil District 6, Warren, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 25 June 1926, in Warren, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Armstrong Church Cemetery, Irving College, Warren, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ethrelbred Dredmon "Dred" Roberts
1847–1917
Sarah "Sallie" Argo
1848–1926
Marriage: 2 November 1868
Jane Roberts
1869–
Bellzora Roberts
1873–1946
Horace Lafayette Roberts
1875–1957
George Washington Roberts
1877–1955
Elijah Roberts
1880–1960
Lucian Roberts
1882–1963
Isaac "Ike" Wesley Roberts
1885–1966
Benjamin Franklin Roberts
1885–1961
Drucilla Roberts
1889–1918
Dredmon M. Roberts
1893–1972

Sources (16)

  • Sallie Roberts, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • Sallie Argo, "Tennessee, Marriages, 1796-1950"
  • Sarah Argo Roberts, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

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

Scottish (Aberdeenshire): unexplained.

Italian (Argò): either a metathesized variant of Agrò (see Agro 2), or an unflattering nickname from Greek argos ‘lazy, slothful’.

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

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