Brief Life History of Eli Sylvester
When Eli Sylvester Hayes was born on 12 October 1855, in Quaker City, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, his father, Wilson Hayes, was 29 and his mother, Ura Or Uriah Starkey, was 28. He married Alice Hawkins on 24 December 1885, in Guernsey, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Millwood Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 18 November 1926, in Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mill Hall, Clinton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Elis Hays in household of Wilson Hays, "United States Census, 1860"
- Eli Hayes, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Eli Hayes, "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949"
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World Events (8)
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha ‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’. Compare McCoy . In some cases especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.
English: variant of Hay , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: topographic name from the plural form of Middle English hay(e), heye, heghe ‘enclosure’ (see Hay ), sometimes used as a collective noun for a farm, especially in Devon, where it is a frequent minor placename. Compare Hain .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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