Sarah Jane Painter

Brief Life History of Sarah Jane

When Sarah Jane Painter was born on 31 August 1813, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joel Painter, was 26 and her mother, Roseanna McGrew, was 25. She married John Watson Byers on 28 November 1833, in Madison, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and London, Madison, Ohio, United States in 1880. She died on 26 November 1891, in Kirkwood Township, Belmont, Northwest Territory, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Kirkwood Cemetery, London, Madison, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Watson Byers
1800–1881
Sarah Jane Painter
1813–1891
Marriage: 28 November 1833
Rosa A. Byers
1835–1917
Louisa Jane Byers
1837–1927
Margaret Missouri Byers
1840–1879
James Watson Byers
1841–1902
Joel M. Byers
1841–1923
John C Byers
1845–1930
Andrew Thomas Byers
1847–1925
Sarah E Byers
1850–
Flora Louisa Byers
1855–1938
Catherine Byers
1858–1907

Sources (13)

  • Sarah Byers in household of John Byers, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Sarah Jane Panter, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Sarah Jane Painter Byers, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English peintour, painter, peintir, penter, pointour (Old French peintour, paintour) ‘painter of images (on walls, screens, shields, etc.), colorist (of statues, figurines, chests, etc.), artist’. In the Middle Ages the walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’ at Saint Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in England.

Americanized form of German Bender . Compare Bainter .

Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Pajntar or Panjtar, topographic names from the field name Pajnta or Na Pajnti, which is derived from Middle High German biunt(e) ‘fenced agricultural land’ (compare German Paintner ), or perhaps from Bavarian Middle High German pant ‘band’ (compare Panter 4).

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

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