When Sarah W. Short was born on 8 January 1819, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, her father, Dr. Thomas Randall Short, was 40 and her mother, Rhoda Parker, was 18. She married Rev George W. Coker on 19 February 1840, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Bollinger, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Carlyle Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1870. She died in 1900, in Monroe, Ouachita, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 81.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1824: Clinton, Illinois, United States
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English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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