Brief Life History of Sarah Melvina
When Sarah Melvina Adams was born on 4 December 1839, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, William Britton Adams, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Giles Bryant, was 25. She married Charles James McGary on 20 February 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Crescent, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 13 July 1919, in Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Sarah Adams in household of William Adams, "United States Census, 1850"
- William Wallace Williams in U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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