Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth Jane
When Sarah Elizabeth Jane Dorsey was born in August 1835, in Virginia, United States, her father, George Dorsey, was 25 and her mother, Ann Keeler, was 12. She married Starling Ross Kirkman on 29 November 1853, in Palestine Township, Cooper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Wabaunsee, Wabaunsee, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Cedar Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 8 June 1900, in Kansas, United States, at the age of 64.
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- Elizabeth Kirkman in household of Elisha Kirkman, "United States Census, 1880"
- Sary Dorsey, "Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920"
- Miss Sary Dorsey in entry for Mr Starling R Hickman, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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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.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Name Meaning
English (East Yorkshire): of French origin, a habitational name, with French preposition d(e), from Orsay in Seine-et-Orne, France, or from Orçay in Loire-et-Cher, recorded in the 13th century as Orceiacum, from the Latin personal name Orcius + the locative suffix -acum.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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