Geneva A Sawyer

Brief Life History of Geneva A

When Geneva A Sawyer was born on 3 June 1865, in Lexington, South Carolina, United States, her father, Anselm Sawyer, was 31 and her mother, Sophia Pauline Sawyer, was 24. She married Samuel Collum about 1883, in Lexington, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 13 July 1890, in Batesburg, Lexington, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Batesburg, Lexington, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Collum
1864–1937
Geneva A Sawyer
1865–1890
Marriage: about 1883
Harriett Palina Collum
1886–1968
Roma Octavia Collum
1889–1952

Sources (6)

  • Geneva Sawyer in household of Ancel Sawyer, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Geneva A. Sawyer - Government record: birth-name: Geneva A. Sawyer
  • Geneva A Sawyer Collum Grave

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World Events (8)

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

1871 · KKK Supression

In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.

Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).

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

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