When Rachael Beal was born on 15 October 1847, in Greenville Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Owen Joel Beal, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Klingaman, was 36. She married Jesse Samuel Miller on 28 August 1870. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 1 April 1931, in Meyersdale, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Union Cemetery, New Centerville, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English (of Norman origin): variant of Beale , from Old French bel(e) ‘fair, lovely’ (see Beau ), either a nickname for a handsome man or a metronymic from this word used as a female personal name.
English (northern): habitational name from any of the places so named in Northumberland and Yorkshire. The former of these (Behil in early records) is named with Old English bēo ‘bee’ + hyll ‘hill’; the latter (Begale in Domesday Book) with Old English bēag ‘ring’, here probably used in the sense ‘river bend’, or an unattested personal name Bēaga derived from this word + halh ‘nook, recess’ (see Beagle 2). An additional source may be Beald, a farm in Cambridgeshire, recorded as Bele super Dedhil, c. 1195. In Lincolnshire, the surname is perhaps from a word or name for a farm derived from Scandinavian bøli ‘farm’.
French (Béal): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill race, from the Lyonnaise dialect term béal, bezale, bedale (of Gaulish origin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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