Sarah Ann Lake

Brief Life History of Sarah Ann

When Sarah Ann Lake was born in 1792, in Vermont, United States, her father, Vincent Lake Jr, was 19 and her mother, Frances Drummond, was 22. She married Thomas DeMoss on 25 December 1808, in Muskingum, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. She died about April 1862, in Kosciusko, Indiana, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Etna Green, Etna Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas DeMoss
1794–1871
Sarah Ann Lake
1792–1862
Marriage: 25 December 1808
James DeMoss
1809–
Sarah Ann DeMoss
1826–1883
Vincent DeMoss
1811–1855
Elijah DeMoss
1813–
William Franklin DeMoss
1815–1893
Frances DeMoss
1817–
Sanford DeMoss
1819–1896
Rachel Jane DeMoss
1821–1890
Elizabeth DeMoss
1823–1858
Nancy DeMoss
1827–
Thomas Jefferson DeMoss
1830–1871
Amarilla DeMoss
1832–1867
Louisa M DeMoss
1834–
Lewis Nelson DeMoss
1835–1900
Anne DeMoss
1836–

Sources (10)

  • Sarah A Demoss in household of Thomas Demoss, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Sarah Lake, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
  • Sarah Lake DeMoss, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

Name Meaning

English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.

English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).

North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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