Sabra Almeda Lake

Brief Life History of Sabra Almeda

When Sabra Almeda Lake was born on 17 July 1824, in Ernestown Township, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Madison Lake Jr., was 35 and her mother, Philomela Smith, was 30. She married William Wilkinson Dixon on 16 August 1842, in Merritt, Scott, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880 and Farr West, Weber, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 2 July 1908, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Wilkinson Dixon
1818–1891
Sabra Almeda Lake
1824–1908
Marriage: 16 August 1842
Henry Dixon
1843–1908
Harvey Dixon Sr.
1844–1906
Emma Jane Dixon
1846–1863
Lydia Ann Dixon
1848–1853
Mary Lucy Dixon
1850–1882
Electa Philomelia Dixon
1852–1891
Esther Ann Dixon
1854–1865
William James Dixon
1856–1862
Sabra Elizabeth Dixon
1857–1865
Bailey Dixon
1859–1865
Sarah Ellen Dixon
1861–1924
Dudley Dixon
1864–1864
John Lawrence Dixon
1865–1872
Riley George Dixon
1866–1918
Alfred George Dixon
1869–1937

Sources (45)

  • S*A Dixon, "United States Census, 1900"
  • George Lake in Birth's of Family of Philomila Smith - Appendix Brigham City Arizona Terr - Vol III George Lake Missionary Journal
  • Sabro Lake, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"

World Events (8)

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

1827

Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.

English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).

North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).

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

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Story Highlight

Nelson, Lydia Ann Lake, [Autobiography], in Roberta Flake Clayton, comp., Pioneer Women of Arizona, 432.

RELATED COMPANIES James Lake Company (1850) In the summer of 1850 we went forth again in the time to join a company of saints moving to the Valley. My father [James Lake] was chosen captain of fifty. …

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