Brief Life History of Sarah Josephine
When Sarah Josephine Spears was born in 1839, in Georgia, United States, her father, Joshua Baker Spears, was 26 and her mother, Philadelphia "Delphia" Truitt, was 16. She married Cordell Daniel "Cordy" Jeffries on 14 December 1859, in Jasper, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Jasper, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1889, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Maxwell, Jasper, Georgia, United States.
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- Sarah J Jeffries in household of Cordial D Jeffries, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sarah Josephine Spears, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Josephine Spears Binford, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Spear , with post-medieval excrescent -s. The name has sometimes been confused with Pearse .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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