When Sarah Charlotte Shore was born on 5 June 1854, in North Carolina, United States, her father, John Jacob Levi Shore, was 37 and her mother, Charity Helsabeck, was 33. She married John Wesley Spainhour on 13 December 1877, in Forsyth, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bethania, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Yadkin Township, Stokes, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years. She died on 23 August 1932, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Antioch United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rural Hall, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States.
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English: from Middle English s(c)hore ‘shore, bank, coast, steep slope, cliff’ (Old English scora). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived near such a feature, or, in Lancashire and Yorkshire especially, habitational from a place so named, such as Shore in Rochdale (Lancashire) or Shore in Todmorden (Yorkshire). In southwestern England, the name is probably a variant of Score , which shares the same etymology.
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schor, Schorr or Szor, variants of Schauer .
Americanized form of French Giard , reflecting the characteristic Canadian and American French rounding of the -ard ending. Compare Shor .
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