Brief Life History of James Harley
When James Harley Garner was born on 21 September 1864, in Cass, Illinois, United States, his father, William Shiverel Garner, was 26 and his mother, Nancy Matilda Crews, was 26. He married Alice Wright on 19 July 1887, in Cass, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Panther Creek Township, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Chandlerville, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 24 January 1940, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Garner Chapel Cemetery, Cass, Illinois, United States.
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- Harley Garner in household of William Garner, "United States Census, 1870"
- James Harley Garner, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- James H Garner, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): perhaps occasionally from the Old French personal name Garnier (see Garnier ), but it is exeptionally rare as a personal name in medieval England and no certain evidence has been found for its use as a surname. Compare Warner .
English: from Middle English gern(i)er, garner, gurner, Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It was probably a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
English and Scottish: commonly shortened form of Gardner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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