When Sarah Griffith Boone was born on 23 October 1803, in Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States, her father, John Boone, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Griffith, was 33. She married Baruch Wheeler on 8 March 1827, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 16 October 1880, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Bohon in La Manche, France, of obscure etymology.
English (of Norman origin): from Middle English bon(e), boun, Old French bon ‘good’. Compare Bone 1.
Dutch: variant of Boon .
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