Brief Life History of Sarah Millicent
When Sarah Millicent Hurff was born on 11 August 1857, in Peoria, Illinois, United States, her father, George Hurff, was 45 and her mother, Martha Ann Ewalt, was 34. She married George William Nixon from 1872 to 1904. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Farmington, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States for about 12 years. She died on 30 December 1922, in Peoria, Illinois, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Elmwood, Peoria, Illinois, United States.
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- Sarah H*f, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah Hurff Nixon, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Sarah Hurff Nixon, "Find A Grave Index"
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1860
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Peoria, Illinois, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Probably an altered form of Swiss German Morf, which may be a shortened form of the personal name Morolf.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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