When Sarah L Carr was born on 20 November 1863, in Jeffersonville, Jefferson Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States, her father, Elijah S Carr, was 42 and her mother, Orpha Hooker, was 35. She married Curtis L Lanum on 26 October 1887, in Jefferson Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Jefferson Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States for about 40 years. She died on 3 September 1955, in Fayette, Ohio, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Jefferson Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Carra ‘descendant of Carra’, a personal name from the adjective corr ‘pointed’, explained as meaning ‘spear’. As an Ulster surname, Carr was often confused with Scottish Kerr .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Chathair, a Donegal name meaning ‘son of Giolla Cathair’ or ‘the servant (i.e. devotee) of Saint Cathar’. Cathar was a priest and bishop, otherwise unknown.
Irish: in Galway, a shortened Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Chéire, see Keary .
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