Brief Life History of Sarah Ann
When Sarah Ann Burr was born in 1822, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Heman W. Burr, was 35 and her mother, Hannah Parker, was 20. She married Thomas Jefferson Headley on 21 July 1836, in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1850. She died on 15 February 1869, in Washington, United States, at the age of 47.
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- Sarah A Headly in household of Thomas Taylor, "United States Census, 1850"
- Unknown, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
- Mrs Thomas J Headly, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
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.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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