When Infant Son Haley was born on 11 April 1922, in Oakway, Oconee, South Carolina, United States, his father, Martin Luther Haley, was 24 and his mother, Ella Leathers, was 20. He died on 12 April 1922, at the age of 0, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery, Westminster, Oconee, South Carolina, United States.
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 .
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