When Cynthia E Stanley was born on 20 March 1843, in Walnut Ridge MM, Rush, Indiana, United States, her father, Wyatt Stanley, was 24 and her mother, Mary Bundy, was 23. She married Charles Morgan Henley on 17 September 1868, in Walnut Ridge MM, Rush, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Blue River Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Ripley Township, Rush, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 February 1885, in Howard, Indiana, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Carthage, Ripley Township, Rush, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1844: Richardville, Indiana, United States 1846: *Howard, Indiana, United States [*Renamed Howard in 1846]
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.
English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).
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