When Sarah Brower Pettit was born on 31 March 1855, in Lynbrook, Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States, her father, Brower Pettit, was 26 and her mother, Lucinda Abrams, was 17. She married Osmond Mathew Conniff on 9 July 1874. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 24 October 1929, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English (London): variant of Brewer .
Altered form of Brauer or Brouwer .
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