Brief Life History of Sarah Ann
From Find a grave: "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 39, No 13, p 5, Mar. 29, 1883. In Ashaway, R. I., March 19, 1883, of congestion of the lungs, Sarah Taylor, wife of Franklin Cottrell, aged 64 years, 1 month, and 17 days. She was a faithful wife and mother, and was known among those most intimately acquainted with her as a preeminently good and kind woman. transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050 Gravesite Details Buried with Cottrells: Sarah A, Franklin, Lewis & Arthur
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- Sarah A Cottrell in household of Franklin Cottrell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah A. Taylor, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Sarah Ann Taylor Cottrell, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1820 · Making Land more affordable
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
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, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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