JOHN CALHOUN HAIR

     John Calhoun Hair, b November 21, 1844 in Alabama, d 1906 in Marlin, and buried there in Calvary Cemetery - married October 21, 1875 to Mary Virginia Barnes, b March 13, 1859 in Marlin, d January 2, 1941 and buried in Calvary Cemetery - a daughter of Franklin P. and Elmira Elizabeth (Spears-Sites) Barnes.

     John and Mary reared five of their seven children:

     Thadeus Hair, b December 15, 1876 in Marlin, d September 9,1877 and buried in Calvary Cemetery.

     Margaret Jones Hair, b January 24,1878 in Marlin, d December 22, 1916 - married in 1897 to Theophilus D. Peebles, b July 1870, d 1952 in Marlin and buried in Calvary Cemetery.

     Cornelia Barnes Hair, b January 24,1880 in Marlin, d October 8, 1963 - married 1901 to Henry Hartman, b November 16, 1872 in Salina, Kansas, d January 16, 1942 and buried in Calvary Cemetery.

     Bettie Jackson Hair, b December 26,1881 in Marlin, d February 18, 1953 in Marlin and buried by her husband in Calvary Cemetery - married Robert Lee Norwood, b January 24, 1880 in Marlin, d October 31, 1918.

     George Gassoway Hair, b July 19, 1884, d September 20, 1886 as a result of burns received when he stepped in hot coals around his mother's wash pot, and buried in Calvary Cemetery.

     Mary Todd Hair, b September 1, 1886, d July 1972 - married Robert Anthony McCoy. Mary was a school teacher, and lived at Rosebud, Texas.

     Elizabeth Franklin Hair, b September 22, 1890 in Marlin, d May 5, 1975 - married June 11, 1912 to John Hughes Norwood, b March 9, 1887, d April 17, 1967 and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin.

 

 

 


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"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 208 column 2 and page 209 column 1.  
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