Brief Life History of Sarah Cornelia
When Sarah Cornelia McGehee was born in 1848, in Amite, Mississippi, United States, her father, Thomas Louis McGehee, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Lundy, was 19. She married Samuel Richard Nunnery on 1 August 1868, in Amite, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Beat 1, Amite, Mississippi, United States in 1880 and Beat 4, Amite, Mississippi, United States in 1910. She died in 1914, in Pike, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Nunnery Cemetery, Liberty, Amite, Mississippi, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Sarah C Nunwey in household of Saml Nunwey, "United States Census, 1880"
- Sarah C. Mcgehee, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
- Sarah Cornelia McGehee Nunnery, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
Irish: probably a variant of McGaughey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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