When Sarah Jane Brooks was born on 7 November 1842, in Muscatine, Iowa, United States, her father, Benjamin Brooks, was 50 and her mother, Nancy Olive Harris, was 44. She married William L Hildreth on 13 July 1858, in Linn, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Clark, Washington, United States in 1870 and Moxee City, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1900. She died on 26 September 1910, in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Union Gap, Yakima, Washington, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1845: Oregon Country, United States 1845: Vancouver, Oregon Country, United States 1846: Vancouver, Oregon Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1848: Vancouver, Oregon Territory, United States 1849: Clark, Oregon Territory, United States 1853: Clarke, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Clarke, Washington, United States 1925: Clark, Washington, United States
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English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
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