Sarah M. Cole

Brief Life History of Sarah M.

When Sarah M. Cole was born in 1844, in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States, her father, Hollis Cole, was 34 and her mother, Eunice M Wilcox, was 37. She married William Harrison Fisher on 26 July 1864, in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 15 December 1905, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 61.

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Family Time Line

William Harrison Fisher
1836–1920
Sarah M. Cole
1844–1905
Marriage: 26 July 1864
Ruth Emerette Fisher
1875–1925

Sources (15)

  • Sarah Cole in household of Horace Cole, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Sarah M. Cole, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • Sarah Maria Cole in entry for Mr William Harrison Fisher, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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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.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1864 · St. Albans Raid

St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.

Name Meaning

English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).

English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).

English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).

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

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