When Mahala Begley was born on 20 January 1850, in Perry, Kentucky, United States, her father, Granville Stewart Begley, was 24 and her mother, Nancy Ann Bowling, was 21. She married Pleasant Huff on 3 September 1880, in Perry, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 7 Elkhorn, Leslie, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Leslie, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 26 December 1924, in Confluence, Leslie, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Confluence, Leslie, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Irish (Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beaglaoich ‘descendant of Beaglaoch’, a personal name composed of the elements beag ‘small’ + laoch ‘hero’.
Americanized form of South German Bögle (see Bogle ) or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname (compare Beckley ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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