Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Evans was born on 23 June 1783, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Philip Evans, was 24 and her mother, Mary Charles, was 21. She married Nehemiah Judge Garrison on 23 May 1799, in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in District 818, Cherokee, Georgia, United States in 1860 and District 1000, Cherokee, Georgia, United States in 1870. She died on 3 January 1871, in Canton, Cherokee, Georgia, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Canton, Cherokee, Georgia, United States.
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- Sarah Garrison in household of Nehemiah Garrison, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Evans - birth-name: Sarah S. Evans
- Sarah Evans Garrison, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1789 · Becomes 12th State
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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