Brief Life History of Joseph Lawton
When Joseph Lawton Corley was born on 24 December 1903, in Saluda, South Carolina, United States, his father, Joshua Nathaniel Corley, was 24 and his mother, Ruth Matilda Jennings, was 20. He married Iva Mae Dobbins on 28 May 1926, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Township 1 Germanville, Saluda, South Carolina, United States in 1910 and North Augusta, Aiken, South Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 29 August 1988, in Greer, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Greer, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.
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- Joseph L Corley, "United States 1950 Census"
- Joseph L Corley, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Lawton Corley, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1916 · Anthony Crawford Lynched
South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Irish (Mayo; Monaghan): variant of Curley and McCurley .
English: habitational name from Corley in Warwickshire or Coreley in Shropshire, both named with Old English corna, a metathesized form of crona, genitive plural of cron, cran ‘crane’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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