Laura Ann Corley

Brief Life History of Laura Ann

When Laura Ann Corley was born on 17 April 1856, in Batesburg, Lexington, South Carolina, United States, her father, Wesley Corley, was 32 and her mother, Sarah Ann Padgett, was 27. She had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with William Cary Mitchell. She lived in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States in 1860 and Mobley Township, Edgefield, South Carolina, United States in 1880. She died on 12 December 1908, in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Cary Mitchell
1855–
Laura Ann Corley
1856–1908
Elizabeth Mitchell
1876–
Thomas Nathanial Mitchell
1877–1965
Susan Leanne Mitchell
1881–1944
John Carey Mitchell
1893–1962

Sources (15)

  • Laura Ann Corley in household of West Corley, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Laura Mitchell, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Laura Mitchell in entry for John Cary Mitchell, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"

World Events (8)

1860

In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Irish (Mayo; Monaghan): variant of Curley and McCurley .

English: habitational name from Corley in Warwickshire or Coreley in Shropshire, both named with Old English corna, a metathesized form of crona, genitive plural of cron, cran ‘crane’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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