Sarah Alexander

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Alexander was born on 21 February 1804, in Gill, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Eliphaz Alexander, was 39 and her mother, Asentha Foote, was 41. She married Peter Hadlock about 1828. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States in 1855 and Jackson Township, Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1860. She died on 12 July 1882, in Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Indian Mound Cemetery, Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Peter Hadlock
1800–1850
Sarah Alexander
1804–1882
Marriage: about 1828
Hiram Hadlock
1829–1890
Mary Jane Hadlock
1839–
Louisa Anna Hadlock
1831–
Orville Lucius Hadlock
1834–1907
Mariam Theresa Hadlock
1836–1922
Frances Hadlock
1841–1902
Walter Hadlock
1843–1926
Hiram Hadlock
1846–1864

Sources (9)

  • S Hadlock in household of P Hadlock, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Sarah Parkhurst, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Sarah Alexander in household of Wm H Alexander, "New York State Census, 1855"

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1813

Oldest grave seen in the memorials list

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.

Name Meaning

Scottish, English, German, and Dutch: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great (356–323 BC ) - or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria (c. 250–326 AD ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymics, for example McAllister . Alexander is a common personal name in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Arabic or Assyrian/Chaldean Iskandar and Iskander , and their derivatives, e.g. Greek patronymic Alexandropoulos.

Jewish: from the adopted personal name Alexander (see 1 above) or shortened from the eastern Ashkenazic (originally Slavic) patronymics Aleksandrovich or Alexandrowicz.

History: A number of Scotch-Irish families of this name landed at New York in the early 18th century. By 1746, six of them were established in NC. Others came in through Philadelphia, for example Archibald Alexander, who came from Londonderry in northern Ireland in 1736 and established himself in VA. — The Revolutionary general William Alexander (1726–83) was always known as ‘Lord Sterling’ to his compatriots, although his claim to the title was denied by the College of Arms in London. His father, James Alexander, was a Jacobite who had fled to New York after the failure of the Jacobite rising in 1715. The claim to the title arose in connection with their ancestor Sir William Alexander, a courtier and poet at the court of King James VI of Scotland (James I of England), who created him Earl of Stirling in 1633.

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

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