When Henry Alonzo House was born on 2 November 1861, in Clay, Kentucky, United States, his father, Samuel House, was 22 and his mother, Parthena Bartheny Thena Johnson, was 18. He married Selatha Elizabeth Hazelwood on 13 August 1882, in Clay, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Pigeonroost, Clay, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 2, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 25 March 1935, in Clay, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Benge, Clay, Kentucky, United States.
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English: topographic or occupational name for someone employed ‘at the house’, from Middle English hous(e) (Old English hūs), probably a religious house such as a convent. In the Middle Ages the majority of the population lived in cottages or huts rather than houses.
English: variant of Howes .
English: perhaps a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English huse, a southwest dialect form of Old English hyse ‘place overgrown with (water) plants’, a derivative of Old English hos ‘(water) plant’. In modern English, the name might have been absorbed into Huss or Hose .
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