James Arthur Riley

Brief Life History of James Arthur

When James Arthur Riley was born on 16 November 1876, in Belfast Mills, Russell, Virginia, United States, his father, Hugh Lafayette Riley, was 31 and his mother, Josephine Bonaparte Bradshaw, was 37. He died on 18 October 1952, in Johnson City, Washington, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 75.

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Family Time Line

Hugh Lafayette Riley
1845–1894
Josephine Bonaparte Bradshaw
1839–1913
William Thomas Riley
1873–1930
Charles Henry Riley
1874–1943
James Arthur Riley
1876–1952
Lula Ann Riley
1877–1959
Jennie Mae Riley
1879–1947
Hugh Lafayette Riley
1881–1935
Hattie Maude Riley
1885–1902

Sources (2)

  • James Arthur Rilly, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
  • James Arthur Rilly, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"

World Events (8)

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name chiefly from High Ryley in Accrington (Lancashire) and Riley in Kirkburton, which was in the manor of Wakefield (Yorkshire). In some cases the name may derive from Riley Farm in Eyam (Derbyshire), Royley in Royton (Lancashire), or Rylah in Scarcliffe (Derbyshire). The placenames all come from Old English rȳge ‘rye’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Irish: from Ó Raghailligh ‘descendant of Raghailleach’, Old Irish Roghallach. This is the name of a chieftain family in Cavan, related to the O'Rourkes. In Anglicized form it has also been confused with Ó Raithile found in Munster, usually Anglicized as O'Rahilly or Rahilly . See O'Reilly .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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