When Abraham Shelley was born on 2 August 1805, in Washington, Virginia, United States, his father, John Shelley, was 28 and his mother, Magdalena Martha Miller, was 25. He married Cynthia Wortman on 2 February 1827, in Union, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Jackson Township, Boone, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 16 September 1876, in Boone, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Jamestown, Jackson Township, Boone, Indiana, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (Laois): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sealbhaigh ‘descendant of Sealbhach’, a byname from the adjective sealbhach ‘having possessions, wealthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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