Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Whitham was born in 1820, in Iowa, United States, her father, Joseph Rider Whitham, was 41 and her mother, Sarah Dement, was 42. She married Robert Scott Dinsmore on 25 May 1849, in Ohio, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 10 July 1868, at the age of 48, and was buried in Aledo Cemetery, Aledo, Mercer, Illinois, United States.
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- Sarah Whitton, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"
- Sarah Whittom, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Sarah Whittom, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Mercer, Illinois, United States
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): perhaps, as Redmonds suggests, a habitational name from Whitwham in Northumberland (named from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + hwamm ‘corner, angle’, Old Scandinaian hvammr ‘valley, nook’), the connection being that the Percy family in that county had lands in Ribblesdale. The name may sometimes have been confused with Witham .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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