Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Cunningham was born on 30 October 1811, in Harrison, Clay, West Virginia, United States, her father, Adam John Cunningham, was 23 and her mother, Amelia Lyons, was 23. She married Jacob Bigler, Jr. on 20 December 1827, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Fielding, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 18 February 1904, in Plymouth, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Sarah Bigler, "United States Census, 1880"
- Sarah Bigler, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- Sarah Cunningham, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.
Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.
History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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