Sarah Annie Pearce Rowe

Brief Life History of Sarah Annie Pearce

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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Family Time Line

Evan John "Baldy" Williams
1852–1933
Sarah Annie Pearce Rowe
1862–1936
Marriage: 24 December 1879
Mabel R. Williams
1880–1899
Jane Elizabeth Williams
Richard James Williams
1882–1935
Mary Alice Williams
1888–1949
Evan John Williams
1889–1970
Hugh Callahan Williams
1892–1954
Ernest Williams
1901–1905
Ann Edith Williams
1903–1977
Harold Shear Williams
1905–1981
John Albert Williams
1907–1967
John Freeman Williams
1907–1981

Sources (16)

  • Anna P Williams in household of James R Le Marr, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Sarah Ann Rowe, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
  • Annie Pierce Williams, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1876

Earliest recorded burial date, 1876.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

Name Meaning

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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