Thursday, March 27, 2025

Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1865 Death Notice of Amey Oatley (1798-1865) of East Killingly, Connecticut

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1865 death notice for Amey Oatley (1798-1865):


The record of Amey Oatley's death is 22nd entry on the page:


The transcribed information:
  • Name:  Oatley, Amey
  • Town:  East Killingly
  • Date of Death:  Feb. 8 [1865]
  • Age:  66 yrs, 10 mos, 16 das.
The source citation for this record is:

Newspaper death notices, Amey Oatley, died 8 February 1865, East Killingly, aged 66y-10m-16d; imaged, "Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2900/records/239733 : accessed 5 March 2025), page 533 (image 408 of 556)Original data: The Charles R. Hale CollectionHale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library.

Amy (Champlin) Oatley was born 9 March 1798 in South Kingastown, Rhode Island, the daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Kenyon) Champlin.  She died 8 February 1865 in East Killingly, Connecticut.  Amy married Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872) on 29 May 1813 in Exeter, Rhode Island.  They had 14 children born between 1815 and 1837.

Jonathan and Amy (Champlin) Oatley are my 3rd great-grandparents through their daughter Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864) who married Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) in 1844.

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Disclosure: I have a paid All-Access subscription to Ancestry.com now. Ancestry.com has provided a complimentary subscription and material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.


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