When George Washington Hayhurst was born on 25 April 1861, in Joetown, Marion, Virginia, United States, his father, Andrew Hayhurst, was 35 and his mother, Sabra Belle Higginbotham, was 41. He married Clarinda Starkey on 22 February 1885, in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Grant District, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1930. He died on 28 November 1938, in Folsom, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Hess Cemetery #1, Marion, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Fredericksburg involved 200,000 troops with General Ambrose Burnside of the army of the Potomac against General Lee’s Army of the North.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English (Lancashire): topographic name for a dweller ‘(by the) high wood or grove’, from Middle English heigh, high(e) + hirst(e).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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