When William Hiram Relyea was born on 23 November 1855, in Columbia Cross Roads, Columbia Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Relyea, was 28 and his mother, Jane McMullen, was 26. He married Sarah Elizabeth French in 1885, in Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Richmond, Richmond, New York, United States in 1920 and Chemung, New York, United States in 1920. He died on 16 November 1926, in Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Americanized form of French (mainly southern) Reille: topographic name from Old Occitan relha ‘plowshare’, or a habitational name from (La) Reille, the name of several places in southern France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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