Brief Life History of Margaret Jane
When Margaret Jane Sawyer was born on 8 January 1868, in South Mills, Camden, North Carolina, United States, her father, James Henry Sawyer, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Whaley, was 24. She married Charles Tabb Hodges on 22 February 1890, in Camden, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in South Mills Township, Camden, North Carolina, United States in 1900. She died on 21 May 1923, in South Mills, Camden, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in South Mills, Camden, North Carolina, United States.
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- Maggie Hodgers in household of Chas Hodgen, "United States Census, 1900"
- M J Hodges, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Maggie J Sawyer, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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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.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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