Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Douglas was born on 1 October 1864, in Greenup, Greenup, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Wesley Douglass, was 30 and her mother, Lucinda Collins, was 27. She married James Logan Markin on 8 October 1891, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Greenup, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 4 Lower Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 18 September 1948, in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States.
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- Sarah Marcum, "United States Census, 1900"
- Sarah Douglas, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Sarah Markin, "West Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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