Brief Life History of Sarah Margaret
When Sarah Margaret Kerr was born on 22 November 1844, in Mobile, Alabama, United States, her father, Joseph Wilson Kerr, was 22 and her mother, Nancy Francis Hall, was 21. She married Stephen Austin Richardson on 19 July 1866, in Tyler, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Randolph, Arkansas, United States in 1850 and Hardin, Texas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 6 June 1904, in Village Mills, Hardin, Texas, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Warren, Tyler, Texas, United States.
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Sources (16)
- Margaret Kerr in household of Nancy Kerr, "United States Census, 1850"
- S A Keer, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Sarah Margaret Kerr Richardson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Hardin, Texas, United States
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland, Middle English kerr ‘brushwood, wet ground’ (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed, left-handed’.
Irish: variant of Carr .
Americanized form of German Kehr or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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