When James Henry McCleary was born on 12 November 1857, in Wayne City, Wayne, Illinois, United States, his father, James Franklin McCleary, was 28 and his mother, Angeline L Longolis, was 28. He married Martha Adaline Sandlin on 24 August 1879, in Wayne, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Mount Erie, Wayne, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Noble, Richland, Illinois, United States in 1930. He died on 4 October 1930, in Wayne, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Mount Erie Township, Wayne, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Wayne, Illinois, United States
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Irish (northern) and Scottish:
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Chléirigh (Irish), or Mac a'Chléirich (Scottish) ‘son of the cleric’. See Cleary .
Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Arraith ‘son of the servant of Arraith’, or possibly (since there is no saint Arráith) of Mac Giolla an Ráith ‘son of the prosperous youth’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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