Brief Life History of George Dallas
When George Dallas Haney was born on 8 April 1846, in Perry, Tennessee, United States, his father, Salathiel J. Haney, was 26 and his mother, Nancy Daniel, was 24. He married Permelia Cunningham about 1868. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Civil District 4, Humphreys, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. He died on 8 December 1915, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in McKeel Cemetery, Halls Creek, Humphreys, Tennessee, United States.
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- George D Haney, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: George D Haney - birth-name: George Dallas Haney
- George D Haney, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
Scottish or Irish: perhaps a variant of Irish Heaney .
Americanized form of Norwegian Hanøy, a habitational name from any of the four farmsteads so named, from Old Norse hathna ‘young nanny-goat’ or hani ‘cock’ (probably indicating a crag or mountain resembling a cock's comb in shape) + øy ‘island’.
Americanized form of any of several like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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