Brief Life History of Moses
When Moses Stanley III was born on 12 March 1806, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Moses Stanley, was 28 and his mother, Sarah West, was 28. He married Lucinda Bobbitt on 21 May 1835, in Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 1 Curtail, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 10 July 1887, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Stanley Cemetery, White Plains, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States.
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- Moses Stanley, "United States Census, 1870"
- Moses Standley, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Moses Stanley, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Name Meaning
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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