Brief Life History of Jane Sarah or Sarah Jane
When Jane Sarah or Sarah Jane Walters was born on 21 May 1864, in Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, William Leigh Walters, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Williams, was 28. She died on 4 August 1866, in Guernsey, Platte, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 2.
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Sources (8)
- Sarah Jane Walters, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Jane Sarah Walters, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jane Sarah Walters - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Jane Sarah Walters
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
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
English: variant of Walter , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
German: patronymic from Walter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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"First Immigration Train," Deseret News, 30 August 1866, 309.
FIRST IMMIGRATION TRAIN.—We had the pleasure of meeting Col. T[homas]. E. Ricks on Monday, he having come into the city in advance of his train of immigrants, which camped at Grass Creek on Sunday nig …
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