LeeRoy Douglas Quinly

Brief Life History of LeeRoy Douglas

When LeeRoy Douglas Quinly was born on 7 November 1876, in Bethel, Shelby, Missouri, United States, his father, John Samuel McGuire Quinley, was 24 and his mother, Ella Jane Huse, was 20. He married Esther Anna Belle Hayden about 1898. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Shelby, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Bethel Township, Shelby, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 8 February 1962, in Shelbyville, Shelby, Missouri, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Bethel, Shelby, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

LeeRoy Douglas Quinly
1876–1962
Esther Anna Belle Hayden
1866–1954
Marriage: about 1898
Willie A Quinby
1900–
Eva K Quinby
1904–
Ella Belle Quinley
1908–1993

Sources (13)

  • Lee D Quinly, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • Leroy D Quinley, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Leroy Douglas Quinley, "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

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.

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.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

English: apparently an altered form of Scottish McKinley or a shortened form of Irish McQuinnelly, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coingheallaigh or Ó Coingheallaigh ‘son (or descendant) of Coingheallach’, a personal name meaning ‘faithful to pledges’. This surname is now rare in Britain.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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