When Silas Scarborough was born on 25 August 1802, in Georgia, United States, his father, Lawrence Scarborough, was 34 and his mother, Agnes Stringer, was 31. He married Harriet Connell on 22 April 1824, in Jefferson, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Bienville, Bienville, Louisiana, United States in 1850. He died on 9 September 1853, at the age of 51.
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English (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Scarborough (North Yorkshire), from the Old Norse personal name Skarthi + Old Norse borg ‘fortress, fortified town’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesSilas Scarborough, son of Lawrence and Agnes, was born in Jefferson County, Miss., 1805, and died in 1857. He married (1832) Rachel Russell, who was born in 1812 and died 1890 in Ranger, Texas.
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