When Sarah Mary Farris was born on 15 June 1850, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States, her father, Cornelius Gatliff Farris, was 44 and her mother, Nancy Witt, was 40. She married Joseph L Cutbirth on 22 November 1871, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Silver Lake Township, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Shawnee, Kansas, United States for about 50 years. She died on 29 March 1940, in Silver Lake, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Conway Springs, Sumner, Kansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Kansas Territory, United States 1855: Calhoun, Kansas Territory, United States 1859: Jackson, Kansas Territory, United States 1860: Shawnee, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Shawnee, Kansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish and Irish: variant of Fergus , in which the Gaelic gh sound has been dropped rather than being altered to g. Compare Farrish , Ferris .
Probably also English: variant of Farrar . The name is quite common in southeastern England.
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