Brief Life History of Hannah Marie
When Hannah Marie Whaley was born on 31 July 1845, in Summer Hill, Summerhill, Cayuga, New York, United States, her father, Owen Solomon Whaley, was 26 and her mother, Huldah Jane Winfield, was 24. She married George D. Shurrum on 18 December 1866, in Porter, Rock, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Union, Rock, Wisconsin, United States in 1860 and Porter, Rock, Wisconsin, United States in 1870. She died on 13 December 1916, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Maria, "United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hannah Marie Whaley - Government record: birth-name: Hannah Marie Whaley
- Hannah M Whaley, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1854 · The Creation of the Republican Party
A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Whalley (Lancashire) or Whaley in Bolsover (Derbyshire). The Lancashire placename may derive from Old English hwæl ‘hill’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. The Derbyshire placename may derive from Old English wall ‘wall’, walh ‘Welshman, foreigner’ (genitive plural wala), or wælla ‘well, spring, stream’ + lēah.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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