When Sarah Martin Selby was born on 9 April 1824, in Cumberland, Kentucky, United States, her father, Nicholas Selby, was 29 and her mother, Margaret R Young, was 23. She married Abraham Martin on 15 February 1844, in Scott, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Macon, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Clintonia Township, DeWitt, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 25 September 1910, in Clinton, DeWitt, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, DeWitt, Illinois, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Historical Boundaries: 1829: Macon, Illinois, United States
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
English (Nottinghamshire) and Scottish: habitational name from Selby (Yorkshire). The placename may derive from Old English sele ‘willow copse’, sometimes alternating with salh ‘willow’, + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
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