When Sarah Elizabeth Albright was born on 12 December 1811, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Ludwig Albright, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Sharp, was 17. She married Joseph Isaac Oaks about 1832, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Civil District 9, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Roane, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died in 1903, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 92.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
Americanized form of German Albrecht .
English: cognate of Albert , from the Middle English personal name Albriht, Old English Æthelbriht, a metathesized form of Æthelbeorht. Compare Allbright .
History: Jacob Albright (1759–1808), a prominent Methodist preacher, was born in Pottstown, PA, the son of a German immigrant called Johann Albrecht.
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