Brief Life History of Wiley Bourland or Boley
When Wiley Bourland or Boley McKinney was born on 9 April 1812, in Sparta, White, Tennessee, United States, his father, John McKinney, was 30 and his mother, Margot "Peggy" Lee, was 24. He married Mary Ellen Weldon about 1835. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Middle Township, Franklin, Arkansas, United States for about 50 years. He died on 9 April 1902, in Ozark, Franklin, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Franklin, Arkansas, United States.
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- Wiley McKinney, "United States Census, 1850"
- Wiley B McKinney, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Wiley Boley McKinney, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of ç’, an early Gaelic personal name popular from the ninth century and possibly derived from Pictish.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name, borne by a Christian saint and Anglicized in Ireland as Canice, which was treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth . This surname was usually Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie , but is otherwise hard to distinguish from sense 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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