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James Ellis Halley 

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John Bennett Halley
10/21/1869 - 6/24/1940

Mary Elizabeth Peacock
5/17/1875 - 12/23/1957
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James Ellis Halley
2/22/1892 - 7/16/1968
(Shown at age 24)
James Ellis Halley was born on February 22, 1892 in Blountstown, Florida and died on July 16, 1968 in Blountstown, Florida. He lived to be 76 years old.

He served in WWI.
Records
Census4/25/1910 Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) 18 yrs old 
Recorded as family #33: J. B. Halley (age 40), Mary (wife, age 34), Ellis (son, age 18), Annie (daughter, age 16), Wess (son, age 12), Belle (daughter, age 11), Phenlon (son, age 9), Marion (son, age 7), Lee Roy (son, age 1) and Mart McNely (a black servant, age 21, widowed, born in FL). J. B. was born in FL and both parents in the United States. Mary and her mother were born in FL and her father in the United States. All of the children were born in FL. Mary has given birth to 8 children and all are still living. J. B. and Ellis are farmers working the family farm. All, except the youngest children, can read and write. The youngest children have attended school during the past year. 
Other5/30/1916 Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) 24 yrs old 
Handwritten pages from the front of John Bennett and Mary Elizebeth Peacock Halley's bible records the birth of each child between 1892 through 1916.
Marriage: J. B. Halley and Mary Elizebeth Peacock was married April th 17, 1895.
Births:
John Bennett Halley was born Oct. th 21, 1869
Mary Elizebeth Peacock was born May th 17, 1875
James Ellis Halley was born Feb. th 22,1892
Annie Lee Halley was born April th 20, 1894
Mary Ella Halley was born March th 4 1896
Celap Wess Halley was born Jan. th 29, 1898
Marry Belle Halley was born may th 4 ,1899
Charley Rubn Halley was born April th 13, 1901
John Marvins Halley was born Aug. th 14 1903
Lee Roy Halley was born Aug. th 16, 1908
Lillie Mae Halley was born Jan. th 10, 1911
Allbert Chester was born Jan. th 1 , 1913
Clerence Eugene Halley was born Aug.30, 1916

Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Halley's Family 
Military6/1/1917 FL (Calhoun County) 25 yrs old 
WWI Draft Registration Card #1288: James Ellis Halley, born 2/22/1892, states his occupation as working with convicts near Blountstown. His eyes are brown and the color of his hair is light. He height is medium. 
Census4/7/1930 Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) 38 yrs old 
Recorded as family #140: Ellis J. Halley (age 38), Edith (wife, age 31) and Myrtice E. (daughter, age 8). Ellis was 24 and Edith was 17 the first time they married. Edith and her parents were born in GA and Ellis and Myrtice were born in FL. They rent their current home and pay $20 a month. Ellis is a guard working at the convict camps and Edith is a manager working in a retail grocer store. Ellis is not a veteran. 
Census1/1/1945 Precinct 1 FL (Calhoun County) 52 yrs old 
page 35 - Ellis Halley (53)FL & Edith Emaline Halley (46)GA. He has a 9th gr. and she has an 11th gr. education. He works a night marshal and she is a school lunch room manger.  Source:  FL st. census 1945
Newspaper2/1/1951 Panama City News Herald FL (Bay County) 58 yrs old 
Caleb Halley of Blountstown Dies -- Caleb Wess Halley, 53, lifelong resident of Calhoun County, died in Archibald hospital, Thomasville, GA, after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were to be held at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Blountstown the following Friday. Includes full list of family members. 
Newspaper6/1/1951 Panama City FL (Bay County) 59 yrs old 
BLOUNTSTOWN - Funeral services for Mrs. Ellis Holley, 52, who died here at 5AM Thursday, will be held Saturday at 10AM at the Pentecostal Holiness church in Blountstown.  
Graveyard/Tombstone7/16/1968 Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) 76 yrs old 
Boggs Cemetery - James Ellis Halley - 22 Feb 1892 to 16 Jul 1968   Source:  http://www.rootsweb.com/~flcalhou/Cemeteries/boggswc.htm
Death Certificate7/16/1968 FL (Calhoun County) 76 yrs old 
Florida Death Index, 1936-1998: James Ellis Halley died in July 1968 in Calhoun Florida. 

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14 1906 An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins.
25 1917 Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
36 1928 The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.
65 1957 The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
70 1962 The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
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3 1895 Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance.
5 1897 First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph
8 1900 The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control.
8 1900 Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams"
9 1901 First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
10 1902 The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
11 1903 Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
12 1904 The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
14 1906 Electrons are discovered by Thomson
14 1906 The triode vacuum tube is invented
14 1906 Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
20 1912 The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
21 1913 Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
22 1914 The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
31 1923 Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
31 1923 Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
32 1924 Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
34 1926 Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
35 1927 The first television transmission was announced in England
36 1928 Big bang theory was introduced
44 1936 The first regular television broadcast happens in England
46 1938 Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
54 1946 The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
55 1947 Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
59 1951 The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
60 1952 The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
65 1957 Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
68 1960 The ruby laser was created by Maiman
70 1962 U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
73 1965 The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
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16 1908 NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
20 1912 White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
21 1913 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
25 1917 NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
27 1919 NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
46 1938 NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
47 1939 NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
49 1941 NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
58 1950 NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
63 1955 NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
68 1960 NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
71 1963 NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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17 1909 The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
18 1910 Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
35 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
37 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
38 1930 Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
40 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
41 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
42 1934 Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
42 1934 Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
43 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
47 1939 Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
51 1943 Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
52 1944 On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
53 1945 President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
62 1954 The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.
70 1962 The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
74 1966 The Black Panther party is founded.
75 1967 Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.
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17 1909 The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
22 1914 World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
25 1917 Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
27 1919 The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
28 1920 Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
46 1938 Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
47 1939 Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.
53 1945 World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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Marriages
Edith Streetman
Born on March 29, 1899 and died on May 13, 1951.
They were married 11/28/1915.

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Myrtice Taylor
Born on October 30, 1930 and died on January 10, 2014.
They were married 6/25/1952.

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The Children of James Ellis Halley

infant Halley
Born in Blountstown, Florida on November 17, 1916 and died in Blountstown, Florida on November 17, 1916. This child was stillborn.

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23 years old
Myrtice Eudessa Halley
Born in Chattahoochee, Florida on September 5, 1921 and died in Mobile, Alabama on January 25, 1999. She was 77 years old.

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24 years old
Sharon Elise Halley
Born in Marianna, Florida on March 29, 1954 and died in Daleville, Alabama on May 2, 2007. She was 53 years old.

She was a 1972 graduate of Blountstown High School. After graduation, she traveled the United States and was married in Michigan on 6/24/1977 to Daniel Anthony Mitchell (born 12/30/1953). She later mo...
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