When Henrietta Sawyer was born on 20 April 1846, in Jersey, her father, Joseph Sawyer, was 29 and her mother, Henrietta Tranham, was 24. She married George Taylor on 5 March 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1910 and Venice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. She died on 3 March 1922, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
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.
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesExcerpt from a letter from Mary Searle Schriever to Geneve Roberts Dunn on February 20, 1981: "Aunt Net (Henrietta Sawyer) and my grandmother (Mary Ann) enjoyed each other so much. One was white-haire …
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