When George Oscar Horlacher was born on 30 January 1916, in Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States, his father, Karl Charles Horlacher, was 23 and his mother, Leefa Day Botkin, was 20. He married Lois Eloise McCullough in 1936, in Ohio, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Clinton, Morris Township, Knox, Ohio, United States for about 5 years. He died on 21 January 1949, at the age of 32, and was buried in Saint Johns Cemetery, South Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States.
German: habitational name for someone from Horlach in Bavaria or Horlachen in Württemberg, both so called from Old High German hor ‘mud, marsh’ + lahha ‘pool, pond’; the latter place retains traces of an inflected ending. See also Hurlocker .
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