When Alice Jane Pulley was born on 18 January 1855, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, James Pulley, was 31 and her mother, Alice Jane Moon, was 36. She married Joseph Henry Moon on 11 March 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Wasatch, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 27 July 1923, in Bench Creek, Wasatch, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Woodland, Summit, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Summit, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Summit, Utah, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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