Brief Life History of Sarah Catherine
When Sarah Catherine Dowdle was born on 6 May 1846, in Osage Township, Camden, Missouri, United States, her father, Absalom Porter Dowdle, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Ann Holladay, was 18. She married Harvey Henry Meeks on 25 December 1860, in Center Creek, Wasatch, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Mountain View, Uinta, Wyoming, United States in 1920 and Jackson, Teton, Wyoming, United States in 1930. She died on 29 March 1936, in Thermopolis, Hot Springs, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Hudson Cemetery, Hudson, Fremont, Wyoming, United States.
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- Sara C. Dowdell Meeks, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Sarah Catherine Dodell en el registro de Electa Ann Colton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Sara Catherine Dowdle Meeks, "Find A Grave Index"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Dowdell .
Altered form of German Daudl, Dautel, which derived from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Theudulf, composed of the elements theod ‘people, race’ + wulf ‘wolf’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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