Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Bower was born on 31 December 1800, in Cayuga, New York, United States, her father, Johannes "John" Bower, was 35 and her mother, Anna Rosina Young, was 37. She married Franklin Thomas Colborn on 11 August 1825, in Lyons, Wayne, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 27 December 1871, in Peterson, Morgan, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Peterson Cemetery, Morgan, Utah, United States.
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- Sarah Colburn, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah Baner, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Sarah Colborn, "Find A Grave Index"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English bour, bor(e), bur(e) (Old English būr) ‘cottage, chamber, bower’, denoting either a ‘cottager’ or ‘chamber-servant’, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, or a habitational name from any of various minor places called from this word in Somerset, Sussex, Essex, and Peeblesshire. Compare Bowerman and Bowring .
English: variant of Bowyer , for a maker or seller of bows or an archer, from Middle English bowyere, an agent derivative of Old English boga ‘bow’.
Americanized form of German Bauer ‘peasant’ or ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, or of its Dutch cognate Bouwer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Sarah Bower and Franklin Thomas Colburn
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