Nancy Jane Wheatley

Brief Life History of Nancy Jane

When Nancy Jane Wheatley was born on 31 August 1860, in Tamaroa, Perry, Illinois, United States, her father, Mordecai Wheatley jr., was 18 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Jane Bratcher, was 18. She married William J. Miller on 17 February 1885, in Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Tamaroa Election Precinct, Perry, Illinois, United States for about 40 years. She died on 25 November 1943, in Perry, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Tamaroa, Perry, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

William J. Miller
1864–1947
Nancy Jane Wheatley
1860–1943
Marriage: 17 February 1885
George Allen Miller
1885–1947
Leonard Miller
1892–1959

Sources (16)

  • Nancy J Miller in household of William J Miller, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Nancy J Miller, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Nannie Wheatley, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

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World Events (8)

1861 · Simple life to Soldiers

Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.

1863

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

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called Wheatley, for example in Essex, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Yorkshire, or from Whatley in Somerset and Whateley in Warwickshire, all name of which are named with Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’. Compare Whatley .

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

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