Abraham Hayden

Brief Life History of Abraham

When Abraham Hayden was born on 14 November 1818, in Haydentown, Georges Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Taylor Hayden, was 69 and his mother, Mary Katherine Snider, was 45. He married Anna Ella Nesmith in 1844, in Georges Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Wharton Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and North Union Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 1 May 1887, in Hopwood, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Abraham Hayden
1818–1887
Anna Ella Nesmith
1821–1893
Marriage: 1844
Thomas N. Hayden
1841–1843
Solomon Hayden
1844–1845
Lucy Polly Hayden
1844–1844
Pvt. Emanuel Samuel Hayden
1846–1882
John Randolph Hayden
1848–1938
Creed H. Hayden
1857–1907
Mary Margaret Hayden
1860–1951

Sources (16)

  • Abraham Hayden, "United States Census, 1870"
  • U.S., Register of Civil, Military, and Naval Service, 1863-1959
  • Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963

World Events (7)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

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.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉideáin ‘descendant of Éideán’ and Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éidín’, personal names apparently from a diminutive of éideadh ‘clothes, armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford. Alternative spellings include Hadden .

English: habitational name from any of various places called Haydon (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire), Heydon (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk), or Hayden (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ or (ge)hæg ‘fence, enclosure’ + dūn ‘hill’, though the Cambridgeshire placename has Old English denu ‘valley’ as the final element.

Jewish: variant of Heiden .

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

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