When Sarah Jane Slaven was born in 1854, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Andrew Bailey Slaven, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ann Winchester, was 28. She lived in Wayne, Kentucky, United States in 1860. She died after 1860.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
When the Civil War broke out Kentucky had said they would be neutral. As the war raged on though, Kentucky supplied around 86,000 troops to the North and half of that to the South. Fort Jefferson in western Kentucky was the first fort occupied by the Union forces
Irish: variant of Slavin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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