Brief Life History of Simon Peter
When Simon Peter Shelley was born on 23 April 1837, in Clinton, Kentucky, United States, his father, Henry J. Shelley, was 37 and his mother, Eliza Jane Smith, was 37. He married Clamanza Crockett on 21 April 1858, in Clinton, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Magisterial District 4 Neathery, Clinton, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 6 December 1904, in Clinton, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in New Bethel Cemetery, Albany, Clinton, Kentucky, United States.
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- Simon R Shelley, "United States Census, 1900"
- Peter Shelly, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Simon P. Shelley, "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.
1848
Pvt John Parmley Sr. BIRTH 4 Jun 1762 Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA DEATH 25 Apr 1848 (aged 85) Clinton County, Kentucky, USA BURIAL New Bethel Cemetery Clinton County, Kentucky, USA MEMORIAL ID 76619288 · View Source
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (Laois): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sealbhaigh ‘descendant of Sealbhach’, a byname from the adjective sealbhach ‘having possessions, wealthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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