When Lucy Ann Staley was born on 6 July 1844, in Rural Retreat, Wythe, Virginia, United States, her father, Benjamin Staley, was 45 and her mother, Regina Huddle, was 42. She married Andrew Jackson Oaks on 31 May 1869, in Smyth, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and Rich Valley, Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died in 1901, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, at the age of 57.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Hollywood Cemetery was established in 1847 in Richmond Virginia. This is where Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler are buried. During the Civil War it became the largest military interments and a large section dedicated to military burials. Jefferson Davis a well known Confederate is also buried here. Many other notable people are also buried here.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from Staveley in Derbyshire, Stayley in Lancashire (now called Stalybridge in Greater Manchester), or perhaps Staveley (Westmorland), Staveley (Lancashire), or Staveley (Yorkshire). The placenames all derive from Old English stæf ‘staff, stave, rod’ (genitive plural stafa) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Staveley .
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