Brief Life History of Sarah Graves
When Sarah Graves Israel was born on 26 April 1799, in Lyons, Granville, North Carolina, United States, her father, Jesse Israel, was 30 and her mother, Mary Jones, was 25. She married John Ledford IV in 1814, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Union, Georgia, United States in 1870. She died on 17 June 1877, in Blairsville, Union, Georgia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Duncan Cemetery, Union, Georgia, United States.
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- Sallie Ledford in household of John Ledford, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah Graves Israel Ledford, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sarah Isreal in entry for Phonea Moore, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"
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World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1819
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hyman, Faina, Shimon, Avi, Ehud, Elihu, Gerson, Isadore, Merav, Meyer.
Jewish, German, Welsh, English, Haitian, and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the Hebrew personal name Yisra’el, in German and English Israel ‘Fighter of God’. In the Bible this is a byname bestowed on Jacob after he had wrestled with the angel at the ford of Jabbok (Genesis 32:24–8). In Germany, it was used as a personal name in the Middle Ages among Christians, too, and in Wales and southern England it was used among Nonconformists from the 17th century onward.
Jewish: surname adopted by Jews with reference to the ancient Kingdom of Israel, destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC , or to the concept of Jewish nationhood, or, in modern times, to the state of Israel.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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