Vardaman Spencer Haley

Brief Life History of Vardaman Spencer

When Vardaman Spencer Haley was born on 5 December 1880, in Wesson, Copiah, Mississippi, United States, his father, Vardamon Benton Haley, was 27 and his mother, Charity Elizabeth Hill, was 24. He married Hetty Leola Hutson on 16 December 1900, in Beauregard, Copiah, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Beat 2, Lincoln, Mississippi, United States in 1910 and Beat 2, Copiah, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years. He died on 25 July 1943, in Copiah, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Wesson, Copiah, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

Vardaman Spencer Haley
1880–1943
Jewel Emma White
1890–1976
Marriage: 17 November 1906
Leila Haley
1907–1907
Nell M Haley
1909–2003
Robert Spencer Haley Sr
1911–1977
Inez Emma Haley
1914–2008
John I Haley
1916–
Mildred Catherine Haley
1918–1920
Marvin Alvin Haley
1921–2003
Rodney Harold Haley
1925–2010
Alvis Earl Haley
1927–1997

Sources (16)

  • Spencer Haley, "United States Census, 1910"
  • V S Haley, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
  • Vardmon Spencer Haley, "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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from Hailey (Oxfordshire), Heylee in Chapel en le Frith (Derbyshire), Haley in Northowram (Yorkshire), or one or other of the places called Highley in Parracombe and Upottery (Devon). All the placenames derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’, except Highley in Upottery, whose first element may be Old English hēah ‘high’.

English (southeastern): aspirated pronunciation of Ayley, a variant of Aylett .

Irish: adopted form of Mac Céile, see McHale .

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

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