When Mildred Allene Oakley was born on 23 June 1906, in Franklin, Williamson, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Thompson Oakley, was 27 and her mother, Mary Etta Warf, was 19. She married Harry Edward Hilton on 6 March 1924, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Sun City Center, Hillsborough, Florida, United States in 2003. She died on 22 January 2003, in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Sunset Memory Gardens, Thonotosassa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States.
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from any of numerous places called Oakley, Oakle, or Oakleigh, in Bedfordshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Suffolk, or Wiltshire. The placenames derive from Old English āc ‘oak’ + lēah ‘open woodland’.
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