Brief Life History of Sarah Elvira
When Sarah Elvira Pollock was born on 28 November 1855, in Tippah, Mississippi, United States, her father, Isaac James Pollock, was 22 and her mother, Martha Elvira Osburn, was 13. She married Peter Laten Jasper Newton Lewis Cass Anthony on 13 April 1872, in Tippah, Benton, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Northern Division, Marshall, Mississippi, United States in 1860. She died in 1880, at the age of 25.
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- Sarah L Pollock in household of Isaac J Pollock, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (7)
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1861 · Ship Island is Captured by Union Forces
Ship Island was an important port for French Louisiana as it helped to establish the growth of the Gulf Coast. It is nicknamed “Plymouth Rock of the Gulf Coast.” Later it helped Union forces capture New Orleans and Mobile. Located there is Fort Massachusetts. In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, volunteers from Connecticut were sent there. It was used as a place for the POW Confederate soldiers. This area was important to the Battle of Vicksburg and General Sheridan’s victory at Cedar Creek.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Glasgow, probably a British Celtic name derived from pull-, poll- ‘pool’ + a diminutive suffix. The surname has been established in northeast Ulster since the 17th century.
German: ethnic name for someone from Poland.
Americanized form of Jewish Polak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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