Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Beckley was born on 22 March 1794, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Josiah Beckley, was 25 and her mother, Mary Norton, was 26. She married Cleveland Redfield on 14 March 1815, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. She died on 28 May 1856, at the age of 62, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Waupaca, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Sarah Beckley Redfield, "Find a Grave Index"
- Sally Beckley in entry for Sarah Sweet, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Sarah Beckley, "Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places so named in Oxfordshire and Sussex, from the Old English byname Becca (see Beck 3) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: variant of Bickley .
Americanized form of South German Bächle (see Baechle ) and of its Swiss German cognate Bächli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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