Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Lake was born on 9 January 1811, in New York, United States, her father, John Lake, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Mathews, was 37. She married Allen Whitney on 17 November 1834. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Delta Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States in 1850 and Eaton, Michigan, United States in 1860. She died on 1 January 1879, in Oneida Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States, at the age of 67.
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- Sarah Whitney in household of [illegible] Mc Dowell, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sarah Whitney, "Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995"
- Sarah Lake Lake, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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