Brief Life History of Joseph Henry
When Joseph Henry Pulley was born on 9 December 1849, in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States, his father, James Pulley, was 26 and his mother, Alice Jane Moon, was 31. He married Alice Elizabeth Moon on 5 May 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Wallsburg, Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 8 March 1924, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Josh H Pullen in household of Jas Pullen, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Henry Pulley - Individual or family possessions: birth: 9 December 1849; Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States
- Joseph H. Pulley, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, Untied States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English Pulleis ‘man from Apulia’, a country in Italy, named in the Middle English as Poille, Poyle, Apuelle.
English: habitational name from Pulley in Shropshire.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Puley: from the medieval personal name Pelagius (from Greek pelagos ‘sea’), the name of a Christian martyr.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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