When Henry Alexander Sights was born on 6 February 1855, in Henderson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Preston Green Sights, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Brown, was 36. He married Virginia Laura Buchanan on 15 November 1877. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 7, Mason, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 20 January 1928, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
A perennially popular given name, of Continental Germanic origin, from haim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power, ruler’. It was an Old French name, adopted by the Normans and introduced by them to Britain. It has been borne by eight kings of England. Not until the 17th century did the form Henry (as opposed to Harry ) become the standard vernacular form, mainly under the influence of the Latin form Henricus and French Henri.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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