When Anna Harriet Daley was born in June 1861, in County Carlow, Ireland, her father, James Watts Daley, was 27 and her mother, Eliza Griffith, was 25. She died on 6 September 1867, in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 6, and was buried in Lands End Cemetery, Hawleyville, Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Irish: variant of Daly .
English (of Norman origin): variant of Dally 2.
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Dal(l)y, a derivative of Old English Dealla, Middle English Dalle.
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