Brief Life History of Hugh
When Hugh Beasley was born on 23 September 1915, in Claxton, Evans, Georgia, United States, his father, Eli Michell Beasley, was 37 and his mother, Susan Gertrude Lanier, was 33. He died on 20 May 1918, at the age of 2, and was buried in Ellabell, Bulloch, Georgia, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Hugh M Beasley, "Find A Grave Index"
- Hugh M Beasley, "United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969"
- HUGH M. BEASLEY, "BillionGraves Index"
World Events (4)
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1917 · Joining the First World War
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
Name Meaning
English:
variant of Bisley, a habitational name from any of the places called Bisley in Gloucestershire and Surrey (the former named with the Old English personal name Bisa + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, the later named with either a personal name or Old English bysce ‘copse, bushes’ + lēah), or Bisseley (a lost place in Coventry, Warwickshire).
habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Beesley, probably named with Old English bēos ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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