Brief Life History of James
James Head was born in 1804, in Guernsey, Ohio, United States. He married Sarah Dillon on 19 January 1832, in Guernsey, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 7 February 1863, in Oxford Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, at the age of 59.
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Sources (10)
- James Head, "United States Census, 1860"
- James Head, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- James Heade, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1810
At the organization of Guernsey County in April 1810, Oxford was one of five townships into which the county was originally divided and, of course, was much larger than it now is.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English heved, hed ‘head’ (Old English hēafod), applied as a nickname for someone with a peculiarity or disproportion of the head, or else used as a topographic name for someone who lived at the top (‘head’) of a promontory or hill, or near the source of a stream or river or the head of a valley. This surname has long been established in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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