Brief Life History of Sarah Jane
When Sarah Jane Barney was born on 13 May 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Charles Barney, was 62 and her mother, Deborah Riffle, was 36. She married Joseph Smith Black on 14 November 1860, in Spring City, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Arco, Blaine, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Mackay, Custer, Idaho, United States in 1930. She died on 22 May 1934, in Leslie, Custer, Idaho, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Butte, Idaho, United States.
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- Sarah J Black in household of Joseph B Curtis, "United States Census, 1930"
- Sarah J Black, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
- Sarah Jane Barney Black, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
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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.
1846 · First Nauvoo Temple Dedicated
On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
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: habitational name from Barney in Norfolk, which is probably named with an Old English personal name Bera (with genitive -n) + Old English ēg ‘island, dry ground in a marsh’.
English: from the personal name Barney, a pet form of Bernard .
Scottish: possibly from the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from bjǫrn ‘bear’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life Scetch of Charles Barney
Charles Barney was born 23 March 18783 at Sandgate, Bennington, Vermont, the birthplace calculated from records of the Sandgate Congregational Church, and from the testimony of his father, Luther Ba …
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