Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Mantooth Burke was born on 6 March 1846, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Burke, was 33 and her mother, Julia Elizabeth Lloyd, was 27. She had at least 6 sons and 5 daughters with Elias Mantooth. She lived in Edwina, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 8, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 19 July 1917, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
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- Sarah Burk in household of John Burk, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sarah Burke Mantooth, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sarah Buck in entry for Harvey Alonzo Mantooth, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
Probably an altered form of Scottish Monteith orMantach, a nickname from Gaelic manntach ‘stammering’(also ‘toothless’ in Irish), of which one early Welsh recorded form isMantath.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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