Brief Life History of Aaron
When Aaron Hay was born on 4 April 1826, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Michael Hay, was 51 and his mother, Elizabeth Young, was 39. He married Eliza Ann Kimmel on 29 May 1851, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 23 April 1907, in Jefferson Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Salem Reformed Church Cemetery, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Aaron Hay, "United States Census, 1880"
- AARON HAY, "BillionGraves Index"
- A Hay, "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1838
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (northern; of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy called La Haie or La Haye (Old French haie ‘hedge, enclosure’, ‘forest for hunting deer and other animals’, a borrowing of the ancient Germanic word haga). Robert de Haia or de la Haye is known to have come from La Haye-du-Puits in Manche; he was the founder of Boxgrove Priory in Sussex (1123), and holder of the Honor of Halnaker (Sussex) and (by marriage) the barony of Kolswein (Lincolnshire). The Norman name was also taken to Ireland, where it has since flourished in the county of Wexford as Hay and Hayes . Elsewhere in Ireland the name usually has a native Irish origin, see below.
English: topographic name from Middle English hay(e), heye, heghe ‘enclosure’ (Old English (ge)hæg) or ‘forest fenced off for hunting’ (Old French haie); or else a habitational name from a place so called, such as Hay (in Herefordshire and Westmorland) or Hey in Scammonden (Yorkshire). It was no doubt sometimes synonymous with Hayward .
English: nickname for a tall man, from Middle English heigh, hey, high ‘high, tall’ (Old English hēah).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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