Orley Greenwell

Male11 June 1868–before 1899

Brief Life History of Orley

When Orley Greenwell was born on 11 June 1868, in Alleghany, North Carolina, United States, his father, John F Greenwell, was 25 and his mother, Matilda Billings, was 19. He died before 1899, at the age of 30.

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Family Time Line

John F Greenwell
1843–1920
Matilda Billings
1848–1933
Lou Alice Greenwell
1867–1867
Florence Greenwell
1873–
John Greenwell
–
Orley Greenwell
1868–1899
Emmie Greenwell
1869–1873
Elias Wilson Greenwell
1872–1873
Martha Jane Greenwell
1874–1962
John Wesley Greenwell
1879–1953
Florence M Greenwell
1881–
George W Greenwell
1885–1942
Clinton Greenwell
1888–1899
Byrdia Greenwell
1894–1899
Byrdie Lee Greenwell
1894–1978

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    World Events (3)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 2

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1870 · Giving all the right to vote

    Age 2

    The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

    1877 · Last Troops Leave

    Age 9

    In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.

    Name Meaning

    English (Durham and Northumberland): habitational name from Greenwell (Cumbria) or Greenwell in Wolsingham (Durham), Middle English grene ‘green’ + welle ‘spring, stream’. The name may sometimes have been confused with Grindle .

    History: The main English family of this name came originally from Greenwell, Wolsingham, County Durham, where they are recorded as owning land as early as 1183.

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

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