Brief Life History of Louisa Luce
When Louisa Luce Wesley was born on 29 July 1850, in Bethelridge, Casey, Kentucky, United States, her father, John B. “Pony” Wesley, was 36 and her mother, Mary "Polly" Dick, was 38. She married George S Whiles on 2 December 1868, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 2 Jenkins, Casey, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 18 February 1922, in Casey, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Casey, Kentucky, United States.
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- Luisa White in household of George White, "United States Census, 1870"
- Louisa Wesley, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Luisa Whiles, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1962"
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1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with the Old English elements west ‘west’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’, as for example Westley in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, and Westleigh in Devon and Greater Manchester.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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