Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth
When Sarah Elizabeth Bray was born in March 1850, in Old Houlka, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States, her father, Greenville Moody Bray, was 41 and her mother, Lavina Lucinda Smith, was 36. She married Samuel H. Lancaster on 11 September 1874, in Oktibbeha, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Mississippi, United States in 1870 and Beat 1, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States in 1900. She died in 1900, in Old Houlka, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in New Houlka, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Sarah Lancaster, "United States Census, 1900"
- S. E. Brey in entry for S. H. Lancaster, "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911"
- Sarah Bray in household of Green Bray, "United States Census, 1870"
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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.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’, the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’.
English: perhaps a topographic name from northern Middle English bra ‘steep (river) bank’ or ‘brow of a hill’, denoting someone who lived at such a place.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy or Picardy called Bray (Eure, Calvados, Aisne, Somme); see 6.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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