Julia Wheatley

Brief Life History of Julia

When Julia Wheatley was born on 24 December 1889, in Rich Hill, Bates, Missouri, United States, her father, William J. Wheatley, was 41 and her mother, Marjorie Bell Mclemore, was 29. She married Edwin Demarest Ayer on 27 March 1910. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in New Home, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1910 and New Home Township, Bates, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 9 January 1985, in Rich Hill, Bates, Missouri, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Rich Hill, Bates, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edwin Demarest Ayer
1882–1964
Julia Wheatley
1889–1985
Marriage: 27 March 1910
Marjorie Louise Ayer
1911–2001
Edwin Wheatley Ayer
1912–1999
Elizabeth Ayer
1914–1986
Mary Eleanor Ayer
1917–2007
Laura Nell Ayer
1919–2002
William Uriah Ayer
1921–1983
Frances Allene Ayer
1925–2012
Madelyn Jean Ayer
1926–2020
Ruth Arlene Ayer
1929–2014
Joyce Lea Ayer
1931–2009

Sources (18)

  • Julia Ayer, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Julia Wheatley - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Julia Wheatley
  • Julia E Wheatley, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1890 · Woman's Suffrage

An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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