Brief Life History of Sarah K.
When Sarah K. Neff was born on 16 December 1856, in Lee, Virginia, United States, her father, William Franklin Neff, was 25 and her mother, Diadema Fitts, was 18. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1856 and Jonesville, Lee, Virginia, United States in 1870. She died in 1890, at the age of 34, and was buried in Lee, Virginia, United States.
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- Sarah C Neff in household of Wm F Neff, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sarah R. Neff, "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917"
- Sarah O Neff, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
German and Swiss German: relationship name from Middle High German neve ‘nephew’ (later rather broader in application, like cousin in English), hence probably a distinguishing name for a close relation or familiar of a prominent personage. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Naff .
Dutch: variant of Neve , cognate with 1 above.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Neffe ‘nephew’, cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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