When Alma Haney was born on 11 January 1856, in Brazil, Clay, Indiana, United States, her father, Joseph Cephus Haney, was 23 and her mother, Frances Ann Young, was 20. She married William M White on 28 March 1875, in Moultrie, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Unity Township, Piatt, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1930. She died on 4 May 1933, in Atwood, Douglas, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Arthur, Douglas, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1873: Douglas, Illinois, United States [Spreads across Douglas and Moultrie counties]
Historical Boundaries: 1878: Douglas, Illinois, United States [Spreads across Douglas and Piatt counties]
Scottish or Irish: perhaps a variant of Irish Heaney .
Americanized form of Norwegian Hanøy, a habitational name from any of the four farmsteads so named, from Old Norse hathna ‘young nanny-goat’ or hani ‘cock’ (probably indicating a crag or mountain resembling a cock's comb in shape) + øy ‘island’.
Americanized form of any of several like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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