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.

 

 

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"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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