When Rebecca Begley was born in 1849, in Perry, Kentucky, United States, her father, Granville Stewart Begley, was 23 and her mother, Nancy Ann Bowling, was 21. She married James Mourtin T Huff about 1869, in Perry, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died in 1873, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 24.
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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
When the Civil War broke out Kentucky had said they would be neutral. As the war raged on though, Kentucky supplied around 86,000 troops to the North and half of that to the South. Fort Jefferson in western Kentucky was the first fort occupied by the Union forces
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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