Brief Life History of Sarah Jane
When Sarah Jane Rich was born on 11 April 1840, in Butts, Georgia, United States, her father, Jackson Rich, was 27 and her mother, Louisa Ann "Eliza" Collins, was 24. She married James R. Thurston on 3 August 1860, in Butts, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 3 October 1868, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in County Line Baptist Church Cemetery, Jenkinsburg, Butts, Georgia, United States.
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- Sarah J Rich in household of Jackson Rich, "United States Census, 1850"
- Sarah Rich, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Sarah Jane Rich Thurston, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (5)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1861 · Georgia Secedes From Union
Georgia seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America on January 19, 1861.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a wealthy man (or perhaps in some cases an ironic nickname for a pauper), from Middle English, Old French riche ‘rich, wealthy’, a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to ancient Germanic rīc ‘power(ful)’.
English: from the Middle English personal name Rich, a pet form of any of the post-Conquest names beginning in Rich-, such as Richer and especially Richard . Compare Rick .
English: either a topographic name from Middle English riche(Old English ric) ‘stream’, signifying one who lived beside a stream, as at Glynde Reach (Sussex), or perhaps a habitational name from the (now lost) village of Riche (Lincolnshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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