When Elizabeth Haight was born on 4 October 1816, in Dutchess, New York, United States, her father, Robert Haight, was 46 and her mother, Phebe Tripp, was 37. She died on 29 October 1849, at the age of 33.
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possibly a variant of Hight , a topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill. This form of the surname is now rare in Britain.
perhaps sometimes a nickname from Middle English hait ‘merry; revelry’.
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