Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Healey was born on 15 January 1856, in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Healey, was 25 and his mother, Mary Hemingway, was 26. He married Louisa Brown on 8 December 1880, in St. George Utah Temple, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Logan, Ward, North Dakota, United States in 1910 and Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 26 January 1937, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas Heeley, "United States Census, 1920"
- Thomas Healey, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Thomas Healey, "Find A Grave Index"
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1859 · Logan is Founded
"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Healey (Lancashire, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland), Heeley (Yorkshire), or Healaugh (North Yorkshire, Yorkshire). The main origin in Yorkshire was Healey (in Shelley) but the Yorkshire name has also probably been confused with Haley . The placenames derive from Old English hēah ‘high’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: variant of Healy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Thomas Healey and Louisa Brown
Thomas Healey was born January 15, 1856, at Pixton, Derby, England, the third son and third child of John and Mary Hemingway Healey,, in a family of eleven children. Thomas hardly knew his father as a …
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