Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Hartley SR. was born on 24 January 1860, in Waltonville, Jefferson, Illinois, United States, his father, Joseph Marion Hartley, was 25 and his mother, Mary Jane Drennan, was 21. He married Anna Elizabeth Taylor on 9 March 1881, in Franklin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Bald Hill Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Spring Garden, Jefferson, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. He died on 13 December 1936, in Shiloh Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States.
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- Willian H Hartley, "United States Census, 1930"
- William H. Hartley, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- William H. Hartley, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
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1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, in northern England mainly from Hartley in Rochdale parish (Lancashire) but also from any of the places called Hartley in Westmorland and the West Yorkshire. In southern England it derives Hartley in Devon, Hampshire, and Kent, and from Hartleigh in Devon. Similar placenames occur in Berkshire, Dorset, and Northumberland, but it is not known if they gave rise to surnames. Most of the placenames derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the Westmorland placename comes from Old English heard ‘hard’ + clā ‘claw, tongue of land’, and the Northumberland placename derives from Old English heorot + hlāw ‘mound, hill’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArtghaile ‘descendant of Artghal’, a personal name composed of the elements Art ‘bear’ or ‘hero’ + gal ‘valor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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