Brief Life History of Sarah Frances
When Sarah Frances Younger was born on 10 January 1839, in Santa Fe, Maury, Tennessee, United States, her father, William David Younger, was 30 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, was 24. She married John M Church on 17 July 1853, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Giles, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 27 February 1928, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 89.
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- Sarah F Younger in household of William Younger, "United States Census, 1850"
- Sarah Younger, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Sarah Francis Church, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1955"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Northumberland and eastern Scotland): from Middle English yungre ‘younger’, comparative of Young , used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In one case, at least, however, the name is known to have been borne by an immigrant Fleming, and was probably an Americanized form of Middle Dutch jongheer ‘young nobleman’ (see Jonker ).
Americanized form of various cognate or like-sounding names in other languages, notably German Junger and Junker , or Dutch Jonker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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