Sarah Ann Bowyer

Brief Life History of Sarah Ann

When Sarah Ann Bowyer was born on 20 July 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joshua Bowyer, was 38 and her mother, Maria Wardle, was 35. She married Willard Lycurgus Snow on 15 April 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and Bluffdale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 27 December 1917, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Willard Lycurgus Snow
1842–1920
Sarah Ann Bowyer
1844–1917
Marriage: 15 April 1865
Sarah Ellen Snow
1866–1944
Maria Snow
1867–1869
Ada May Snow
1869–1942
Willard Snow
1872–1948
Minnie Melvina Snow
1874–1961
Mary Elizabeth Snow
1876–1951
Joseph Raymond Snow
1879–1956
Fannie Snow
1881–1906
Lillian S Snow
1883–1955
Ethel Jane Snow
1886–1910

Sources (75)

  • Sarah Boyer in household of Joshua Boyer, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
  • 1917 - Sarah Ann Snow, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: 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

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a maker or seller of bows, or an archer, from Middle English bowyere, an agent derivative of Old English boga ‘bow’. Compare Bowman .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sarah Ann Bowyer and Origin of the name Bowyer by Janice Snow George

SARAH ANN BOWYER and Origin of the name Bowyer by Janice Snow George, Additional Information compiled by Donna Hansen Woodward In the early day, with the few exceptions, people were generally known …

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