When James Franklin Pulley was born on 5 May 1848, in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States, his father, James Pulley, was 24 and his mother, Alice Jane Moon, was 29. He married Sarah Augusta Pulley on 15 March 1875, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1905. He died on 31 January 1933, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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.
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