When William Adams Finley was born in May 1849, in Saline, Missouri, United States, his father, Walker H Finley, was 31 and his mother, Mary Lovina Wallace, was 26. He married Mary Emma Lakin on 10 April 1878, in Cooper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Salt Fork Township, Saline, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Blackwater, Cooper, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died in 1934, in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 85.
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Historical Boundaries: 1857: Pettis, Missouri, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), from fionn ‘white, fair’ (see Finn ) + laoch ‘hero’, reinforced by an Old Norse name based on finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’ or ‘hero’. The name is common in Ireland as well as Scotland.
English: habitational name from one or more lost, unidentified or altered placenames so named, such as Philleyholme, Dorset (recorded as Finelegh in 1280) derived from Old English fīna ‘wood-pecker’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Also a variant of Findlow, from Finlow Hill in Over Alderley, Cheshire (from Old English fīn ‘heap’ + hlāw ‘mound, hill’ meaning ‘heaped mound’).
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