Brief Life History of Emily Mae
When Emily Mae Hanley was born on 10 August 1910, in Cherokee, Kansas, United States, her father, Walter Hanley, was 22 and her mother, Jenette Jenkins, was 20. She married Leslie Herbert Scovell on 12 February 1949, in Benton, Arkansas, United States. She died on 1 December 1983, in Weir, Cherokee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 73.
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Family Time Line
Sources (6)
- Emily Hanley in household of Joseph Hanley, "United States Census, 1930"
- Hanley, "Kansas County Birth Records, 1885-1911"
- Emily Maye Hanley, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
Spouse and Children
1911–1984 Male
1910–1983 Female
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Age 2
1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag
Age 17
1931
Age 21
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Conor, Declan, Donovan, Eamonn, John Patrick.
Irish: shortened form of O'Hanley, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁinle ‘descendant of Áinle’, a personal name meaning ‘champion’. This is the name of a former ruling family in Connacht and is now common throughout southern Ireland.
English: habitational name from any of the many places called Handley (Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Northamptonshire) or Hanley (Staffordshire, Worcestershire), named with Old English hēan, the weak dative form (originally used after a preposition and article) of hēah ‘high’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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