Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth
When Sarah Elizabeth Evans was born on 6 September 1858, in Missouri, United States, her father, Henry Foster Evans, was 21 and her mother, Lavina Ann Null, was 18. She married James Knox Polk Engle on 4 July 1880, in Dallas, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in South Benton Township, Dallas, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Baker Township, Crawford, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died on 16 February 1936, in Buffalo, Dallas, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Union Home Cemetery, North Benton Township, Dallas, Missouri, United States.
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- Sarah E Evens in household of Henry Y Evens, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Elizabeth Evans - Published information: Cemetery record or headstone: birth-name: Sarah Elizabeth Evans
- Sarah Evens, "Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920"
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1861
Kansas is the 34th state
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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