Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Tobias was born in April 1865, in Illinois, United States, her father, Joel Tobias, was 35 and her mother, Hettie Ann Billig, was 27. She married Charles William Mays on 20 December 1882, in Forreston, Ogle, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Cook, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1910.
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- Sarah Tobias in household of J. H. Carbough, "United States Census, 1880"
- Sarah Tobias, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- U.S. Death Records
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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.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
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, German, Dutch, and Jewish; Spanish (Tobías); Hungarian (Tóbiás); Czech (Tobiáš) and Slovak (Tobiaš, Tobiáš, Tóbiáš, Tóbiaš): from the Biblical personal name Tobias (Spanish Tobías, Hungarian Tóbiás, Czech and Slovak Tobiáš), from a Greek and Latin form of the Hebrew name Tovyah ‘Jehovah is good’, which, together with various derivative forms, has been popular among Jews for generations. Among Christians it has been in use in the earliest time, already.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish Tobiasz or Croatian Tobijaš, a cognate of 1 above.
Slovenian: from a German or Latin form of the Biblical personal name Tobija (see 1 above). In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of the variant Tobijas.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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