When Humphrey Posey Ensley was born on 12 October 1872, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States, his father, William M Ensley, was 44 and his mother, Lucretia Belle Parris, was 41. He married Mabel M. Murdoch on 10 February 1899, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Webster, Jackson, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and Scotts Creek, Jackson, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years. He died on 2 July 1922, at the age of 49, and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesville, Haywood, North Carolina, United States.
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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.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Americanized form of German Ensli or Ensle, pet forms of Anselm or Ernst.
English: possibly a habitational name from Ingestre (Staffordshire). The placename, which clearly gave rise to a medieval surname, shows various irregular developments over the centuries, an intrusive -l- being one of them. The origin of the placename is uncertain, though the initial element may be a derivative of Latin angustiæ ‘the narrows’, which would become engyst under Brittonic influence, and the final element may be from the river Trent. This would be topographically appropriate, as the river Trent becomes narrow near Ingestre.
English: perhaps a variant of Ilsley , with dissimilation of l-l to n-l, or a variant of Hinchley from Hinchcliffe with development of -cliff via -liff to -ley.
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