Brief Life History of Sarah Edna
When Sarah Edna Best was born on 20 September 1871, in Wayne, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, her father, William Charles Best, was 40 and her mother, Ann Eliza Clingman, was 39. She married Edward Richard Mann on 7 September 1898. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Republic, Republic, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Taylor Township, Shelby, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 7 June 1959, at the age of 87, and was buried in Leonard, Shelby, Missouri, United States.
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- Edna B Mann, "United States 1950 Census"
- Edna B. Best, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
- Edna Sarah Best Mann, "Find A Grave Index"
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1872 · The First National Park
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1873
Historical Boundaries: 1873: Shelby, Missouri, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.
English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.
English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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