Brief Life History of Shelby Winston Alloway
When Shelby Winston Alloway Strange was born on 8 December 1842, in Burkesville, Cumberland, Kentucky, United States, his father, Archelaus Alloway Strange, was 30 and his mother, Celia Ann Miller, was 24. He married Mary Jane Bird on 23 March 1869, in Adair, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 3 Glenville, Adair, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years. He died on 11 December 1904, in Glens Fork, Adair, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Helm Cemetery, Cundiff, Adair, Kentucky, United States.
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- Shelby Strange, "United States Census, 1870"
- S W Strange, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Shelby Winston Strange, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858
Early burial: George W Blair, 19 Apr 1858 37.0207730, -85.2638410
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire): nickname for a newcomer to a district, from Middle English strange ‘foreign’ (Old French estrange, Latin extraneus, from extra ‘outside’).
Irish (Antrim): this name is also common in Ireland, where, in addition to its English etymology, it may represent an Anglicized form of any of several Irish names containing the element gall ‘stranger’, e.g. Doyle , Gallagher .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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