Brief Life History of Nathaniel L.
When Nathaniel L. Schooley was born on 9 January 1792, in Stokes, Pitt, North Carolina, United States, his father, Samuel Schooley Jr, was 48 and his mother, Elizabeth Willson, was 40. He married Sarah Stanbrough on 16 March 1817, in Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 29 August 1839, in Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 47.
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Sources (8)
- 1830 United States Federal Census
- Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011
- Nathan Schooley in entry for Hannah Schooley Smith, "Indiana, Church Records, 1743-1966"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow ""rock"" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the ""rock"" was a gold nugget.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English (Sussex): variant of Scholey, a habitational name either from Scholey's Bridge in Hemsworth (Yorkshire) or the lost Scholey in Rastrick (Yorkshire), recorded in that spelling in 1399. The placenames derive from Old Norse skáli ‘(temporary) hut, shed, shieling’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Scales .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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