Brief Life History of Wallace Edgar
When Wallace Edgar Say was born in 1860, in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel R Say, was 35 and his mother, Isabella Dunlap, was 35. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Florrence Pettigrew. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Washington Township, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years.
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- Wallace E Say, "United States Census, 1930"
- Wallace Say in entry for Eliza Maron Turk and Estella Say, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Wallace Say, "United States Census, 1920"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: of Norman origin, a habitational name from Sai in Orne or Say in Indre, France, perhaps so called from a Gaulish personal name Saius + the Latin locative suffix -acum (see also French name 3 below).
English: nickname, perhaps for someone who made or sold say, a type of woollen cloth, or for an habitual wearer of clothes made of this material, from Middle English sai(e) ‘say’ (Old French saie, from Latin saga, plural of sagum ‘military cloak’). See also Sayer .
French (southern): topographic name from saix (from Latin saxum) ‘rock’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word, for example, Say in Loire, Saix in Tarn and Vienne, Le Saix in Hautes-Alpes, or Les Saix in Isère.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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