John McClain Hazlett

Brief Life History of John McClain

When John McClain Hazlett was born on 13 October 1916, in Dry Run, Fannett Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James McClain Hazlett, was 35 and his mother, Carrie Jane Craig, was 33. He married Lillas Stevenson on 17 June 1943. He lived in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 1 March 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Dry Run, Fannett Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States.

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John McClain Hazlett
1916–1947
Lillas Stevenson
1917–1972
Marriage: 17 June 1943

Sources (3)

  • John Mc Clain Hazelett in household of James Hazelett, "United States Census, 1920"
  • John Mcclain Hazlett, "Pennsylvania, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • John McLain Hazlett, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1917

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

1917 · Joining the First World War

Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English and northern Irish (Derry and Donegal):

topographic or habitational name from Middle English haslett (Old English hæslett) ‘hazel copse’. The name denotes a dweller by a hazel copse or someone from a place so named, such as Haslett Copse in Up Marden (Sussex), or any of several minor placenames in Essex, Kent, and Surrey.

topographic or habitational name from Middle English hesle, hasel (Old Norse hesli, Old English hæsel) ‘hazel’ + Middle English he(ve)d (Old English hēafod) ‘hill, head(land)’. There are several minor places with this name in Yorkshire, as well as Hazelhead in Lancaster, but the only one known to have produced a hereditary surname is Hazlehead in Rimington (Yorkshire), which is not far from Slaidburn and the border with Lancashire. The name was taken to Ulster, possibly before 1700 in Derry. It is partly or wholly through later Irish migration that the name appears so strongly in 18th- and 19th-century Lancashire and southwest Scotland, as well as in other parts of England, including Kent.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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