When Thomas William Ulysses Hedge was born on 13 January 1864, in Oregon City, Butte, California, United States, his father, Gavin Mitchell Hedge, was 32 and his mother, May Irene Arnett, was 21. He married Emma Strang in 1894. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Stirling City, Butte, California, United States in 1935 and Chico Judicial Township, Butte, California, United States in 1940. He died on 8 December 1945, in Butte, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte, California, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge or enclosure, from Middle English hegge ‘hedge, fence’. In the early Middle Ages, hedges were not merely dividers between fields, but had an important defensive function when planted around a settlement or enclosure.
English: probably also a variant of Hatch , with voicing of the final consonant.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Hecke .
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