When Joseph Woosley was born in March 1843, in Kentucky, United States, his father, George Washington Woosley, was 26 and his mother, Julia Ann Siler, was 23. He married Susan D. Nash about 1864, in Edmonson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 2 Millersburg, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Durbin, Boyd, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1930, in Edmonson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Big Reedy, Edmonson, Kentucky, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English (Devon):
habitational name from Wolseley in Staffordshire, named with the Old English personal name Wulfsige (genitive Wulfsiges) + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’.
habitational name perhaps from Wolversleigh Farm in Sidbury (Devon), given the concentration of early bearers in Devon. The placename derives from the Old English personal name Wulf (genitive Wulfes) + Old English lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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