When Ahart Halsey was born on 18 December 1814, in Virginia, United States, his father, James Halsey, was 21 and his mother, Martha Patsy Pattie Peak, was 15. He married Elizabeth Cox about 1834, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Wilson Creek, Grayson, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 20 May 1887, in Grayson, Virginia, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Grayson, Virginia, United States.
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English: habitational name probably from Halsey Farm in Sharnbrook (Bedfordshire), whose medieval spellings lack H- but which has been influenced by the adjacent wood, which was once called Haselho but is now also called Halsey. However, the early examples suggest that another as yet unidentified place (or places) may also have been a source.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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