Brief Life History of Sarah C
When Sarah C Wise was born on 13 December 1858, in Claiborne, Louisiana, United States, her father, Joseph Ford Wise, was 46 and her mother, Harriet Caroline Lambright, was 37. She married Charles Willis Christian on 30 June 1881, in Claiborne, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ward One, Claiborne, Louisiana, United States in 1870. She died in November 1897, at the age of 38, and was buried in Colquitt, Claiborne, Louisiana, United States.
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Sources (6)
- S Wise in household of J F Wise, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sallie C Wise, "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Sallie C Wise Christian, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wise, wisse ‘wise’ (Old English wīs). This name has also absorbed Dutch Wijs and De Wijs, a nickname meaning ‘(the) wise’, and possibly cognates in other languages.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by the withies or willows, from Middle English withi, Old English wīthig ‘withy, willow’.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Weiss ‘white’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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