Sarah Elizabeth McWhinney

Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth

When Sarah Elizabeth McWhinney was born in September 1845, in Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, United States, her father, James Madison Mc Whinney, was 33 and her mother, Mary Bell, was 27. She married Lewis H. Clark on 16 October 1868, in Darke, Ohio, United States. She lived in Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, United States in 1910 and Jackson Township, Preble, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 January 1923, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 77.

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Family Time Line

Robert Wilson Maxwell
1845–1925
Sarah Elizabeth McWhinney
1845–1923
Marriage: 1877
Leota Wilson Maxwell
1880–1962
Charles William Maxwell
1885–1967

Sources (24)

  • Sarah Mc Whinney, "United States, Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Elizabeth McWhinney - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Lizzie
  • Lizzie Mcwhiney, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

Name Meaning

Scottish or northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Choinnich (Scottish) or Mac Choinnigh (Irish), ‘son of Coinneach’, meaning ‘comely’, Anglicized as Kenneth . This form has lenition of the initial consonant of the personal name. Compare McKenzie , from the unlenited form of Coinneach, and Mawhinney .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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