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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Historical Boundaries: 1811 - 1816: Wayne County, Indiana Territory, United States. 1816 - Today: Wayne County, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1817: Wayne, Indiana, United States
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.
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