Brief Life History of Sarah M. "Sade”
When Sarah M. "Sade” Wells was born on 2 May 1855, in Fennimore, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Shaler Henry Wells, was 24 and her mother, Catharine A Garner, was 24. She married Rantsford Myron Sherman in 1874, in Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1900 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 20 years. She died on 16 January 1942, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Sarah Sherman, "United States Census, 1920"
- Sarah M Sherman, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Sarah W Wells, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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