Henry Homer Hester

Brief Life History of Henry Homer

When Henry Homer Hester was born on 15 January 1809, in Clinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Francis Hester, was 41 and his mother, Mary Hodgson, was 39. He married Elizabeth Reynolds on 26 September 1827, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Washington Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1830 and Ickham, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 27 February 1837, in Wayne, Indiana, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Dublin, Jackson Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Homer Hester
1809–1837
Elizabeth Reynolds
1807–1888
Marriage: 26 September 1827
Nelson Burgess Hester
1829–1912
Edgar Burgess Hester
1830–1910
Isaac H. Hester
1831–1867
Benjamin Reynolds Hester
1834–1899
Mary Elizabeth Hester
1835–1907

Sources (6)

  • Henry Hester, "United States, Census, 1820"
  • Marriage Date records-U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
  • Henry Hester, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1811

Historical Boundaries: 1811 - 1816: Wayne County, Indiana Territory, United States. 1816 - Today: Wayne County, Indiana, United States.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1817

Historical Boundaries 1817: Wayne, Indiana, United States

Name Meaning

North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous beech tree, Middle Low German hēster, Middle High German heister ‘young tree (especially beech or oak)’. Compare Heister .

English: variant of Easter with prosthetic H-.

Irish (Mayo and Roscommon): possibly a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistir ‘descendant of Oistir’, a personal name of unexplained etymology. However, without any early bearers in Gaelic sources, it may simply be the English name in Ireland.

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

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