Mahala Begley

Brief Life History of Mahala

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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Family Time Line

Pleasant Huff
1833–1894
Mahala Begley
1850–1924
Marriage: 3 September 1880
Nancy Ellen Huff
1880–1956
Mary Jane Huff
1881–1968
Granville B. Huff
1884–1939
Charlotte Huff
1886–1953
Paulina Huff
1889–1977

Sources (17)

  • Mahala Huff, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Mahaley Begley, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Mahaley Huff, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"

World Events (8)

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1863

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

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

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.

Name Meaning

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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