When Benjamin Ousley was born in October 1874, in Blue River, Floyd, Kentucky, United States, his father, Edward Ousley, was 26 and his mother, Malisha Rudd, was 30. He married Elizabeth Shepherd on 26 October 1899, in Blue River, Floyd, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Magisterial District 2 Left Fork of Middle Creek, Floyd, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Middlecreek, Floyd, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 8 August 1945, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Langley, Floyd, Kentucky, United States.
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English: habitational name from Oversley in Arrow (Warwickshire). The etymology of the placename is uncertain; it may be from the Old English personal name Ofe + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’, with forms in -r- due to association of the first element with Old English ōfer ‘bank’ and uferra ‘higher, upper’. Alternatively, from Ouseley in Aston Eyre (Shropshire).
History: This surname was brought to North America by Major Thomas Owsley c. 1677; he was born in Stogursey in Somerset, England.
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