Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameSarah Jane THORNHILL 63
Birth Date15 Nov 1831
Birth PlaceTennessee
Death Date10 Mar 1872 Age: 40
Burial PlaceDederick, Vernon County, Missouri, Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Spouses
1Jacob Alford RYAN 589,63,453
Birth Date28 Oct 183163
Birth PlaceJefferson County, Tennessee
Death Date26 Oct 1917 Age: 85
Death PlaceUnion, Wright County, Missouri
Burial PlaceRader, Webster County, Missouri, Eureka Cemetery
OccupationUnion Soldier Private, Co. C Tennessee 1st Cavalry & Co. 4 Tennessee Infantry, Farmer
FatherWilliam Wellington RYAN III (1803-1871)
MotherElizabeth CLINE (1806-1902)
Family ID2543
Marr Date4 Oct 185163
Marr PlaceJefferson County, Tennessee
ChildrenTressie Oleva (1855-1928)
 Samuel (1859-1883)
 John (1859-)
 Sarah Elizabeth (1865-)
Notes for Jacob Alford (Spouse 1)
RYAN: Irish: simplified form of Mulryan. Irish: reduced form of O’Ryan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Riagháin (modern Irish Ó Riain) ‘descendant of Rian’; Ó Maoilriain ‘descendant of Maoilriaghain’, or Ó Ruaidhín ‘descendant of the little red one’. Ryan is one of the commonest surnames in Ireland; there has been considerable confusion with Regan. KaM Americanized spelling of German Rein. EG Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press

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