When Sarah Jane “Sallie” Stapleton was born on 18 November 1859, in Borden, Colorado, Texas, United States, her father, John Thomas Stapleton, was 32 and her mother, Mary Goucher, was 21. She married William Wilburn Wier about 1875, in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Bandera, Texas, United States in 1930 and Commissioner's Precinct 1, Bandera, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 25 July 1957, in Bandera, Bandera, Texas, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Bandera, Bandera, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1874: Colorado, Texas, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Stapleton (in Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Leicestershire, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Cumberland), all named in Old English with stapol ‘post, pillar’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The name is common in Ireland, where it has been established since medieval times in the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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