Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Balls was born on 15 September 1855, in Linstead Magna, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Balls, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Ellen Baxter, was 26. She married Elijah Seamons on 10 February 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Chediston, Suffolk, England in 1861. She died on 2 June 1925, in Hyde Park, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hyde Park Cemetery, Hyde Park, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Sarah Balch, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah Balls, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Sarah Balls Seamons, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1859
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: James Albert Ashcroft BIRTH 4 Nov 1859 Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah, USA DEATH 4 Dec 1859 (aged 1 month) Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah, USA BURIAL Hyde Park Cemetery Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 39295214
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex): variant of Ball , with excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life Story of Sarah (Balls) Seamons
Life Story of Sarah Balls Written by Elvira (Seamons) Burgess – daughter of Sarah (Edited by Garold S Seamons - grandson) Suffolk County, England, has an area of 1489 square miles and had a populatio …
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