Brief Life History of James Alexander
When James Alexander Hale was born on 7 September 1862, in Benson, Franklin, Kentucky, United States, his father, Hulett B Hale, was 29 and his mother, Mary C. Armstrong, was 23. He married Sarah A. Armstrong on 31 October 1883, in Shelby, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Simpsonville, Shelby, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 9 July 1937, in Shelby, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Shelby, Kentucky, United States.
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- James Hale, "United States Census, 1870"
- James A. Hale, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
- J A Hale in entry for Otho Hale and Hallie Barbour, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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