Sarah Jane Hawkins

Brief Life History of Sarah Jane

When Sarah Jane Hawkins was born on 1 June 1803, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Caleb Hawkins, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Griffith, was 31. She married William Hainey Hickenlooper on 29 August 1829, in Allegheny Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 29 March 1866, in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Hainey Hickenlooper
1804–1888
Sarah Jane Hawkins
1803–1866
Marriage: 29 August 1829
Harriet Jane Hickenlooper
1830–1894
Belinda Hickenlooper
1832–1894
John Thomas Hickenlooper
1836–1900

Sources (34)

  • Sarah Hickenlooper in household of William Hickenlooper, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Sarah Hickenlooper, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
  • Sarah Hickenlooper, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"

World Events (8)

1804

Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.

1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital

Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.

Irish: variant of Haughn .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Belinda Hickenlooper

Belinda Hickenlooper Wade Belinda Hickenlooper was born 4 March 1832 in West Moreland, Pennsylvania. Her Father was William Haney Hickenlooper and her mother was Sarah Jane Hawkins. Her Father was b …

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