When Sarah Annie Pearce Rowe was born on 3 July 1862, in Penponds, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, her father, James H. Rowe, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Pearce, was 25. She married Evan John "Baldy" Williams on 24 December 1879, in Tuscarora, Elko, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in South Pass City Historical Site, Fremont, Wyoming, United States in 1900. She died on 1 August 1936, in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Rock Springs Cemetery, Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Earliest recorded burial date, 1876.
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English: from Middle English rowe (Old English rāw) ‘row’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses in a street, or habitational, for someone who lived in a place so named. Compare Rawe and Rew .
English (of Norman origin): variant of Rolfe , Ralph , or Rough . Compare Rowson .
East German: habitational name from any of the places called Rowe, Rowa, Rowe(n). Compare Rowen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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