William Hall McAuley
MCAULEY, WILLIAM HALL, Presbyterian minister and foreign missionary, was born December 1, 1811, in Montgomery County, N. C., and died at Stockton, Baldwin County, January 15, 1885.
He was the son of Daniel and Ann (McNeil) McAuley, and brother of Joseph C. McAuley (q. v.). He received his early education in the village schools of Autaugaville; later became a student in Danvile, Ky.; received his theological training at Princeton college, and was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry, April, 1840.
Immediately thereafter, accompanied by his wife and three others who had been his fellow students at Princeton, he set sail from Boston, August 5, 1840, for India. The party was stationed at Futiguer, but ten years later, owing to the ill health of his wife, Mr. McAuley returned to Alabama, where he served as pastor in Talladega, two years; in Union town, fifteen years; and at Stockton, seven years, and where he died and was buried.
Married: June 3, 1840, to Emma, daughter of Robert and Rebecka (Gulick) Bayles, of Princeton, N. J.
Children:
1. Anna Rebecka, m. William Brown, deceased;
2. Emma, m. William Russell;
3. Eliza Jennetta, m. E. J. Harrison, residence Birmingham;
4. William Daniel, m. Ella Underwood;
6. Robert Chalmers, m. Laura Dean;
7. Mary Elizabeth, m. John M. Bowie.
Last residence: Stockton.
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Dawn Conway, April 2009