When Elva Ida Willey was born in June 1860, in Hancock, Waushara, Wisconsin, United States, her father, William Marshall Willey, was 27 and her mother, Mary Adeline Sisson, was 22. She married Elias David Crandall on 13 June 1878, in Waushara, Wisconsin, United States. She lived in Lowville, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States in 1870. She died on 21 August 1887, in East Chain Township, Martin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, East Chain Township, Martin, Minnesota, United States.
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The Dakota War was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota Native Americans. It began along the Minnesota River four years after Minnesota was admitted as a state. The Dakota made attacks on hundreds of settlers, which resulted in their deaths. A military tribunal sentenced 303 Dakota men to death for their crimes but 264 of them were exonerated. The remaining 38 were apart of a mass hanging on December 26 that same year. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
English: from a pet form of the personal name Will , a short form of William . In some instances a variant of Wiley .
Americanized form of Swiss German Willi .
History: Isaac Willey is recorded in Boston, MA, in 1640, and went on to be one of the founders of New London, CT. His descendent Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821–1914) was one of the founders of the College of California at Berkeley in 1860.
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