When Sarah Myers was born on 3 July 1822, in Salem, Culpeper, Virginia, United States, her father, John Myers, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Britz, was 28. She married Thomas Chalkley Coffin on 13 February 1845, in Montgomery, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1920. She died on 16 July 1920, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Boise, Ada, Idaho, 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: 1843: Iowa Territory, United States 1843: Wapello, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Wapello, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
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