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Samuel Hair Sr (1817 - 1895)

Samuel Hair Sr
Born in Donegal, Irelandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 24 Oct 1839 in Irelandmap
Descendants descendants
Father of
Died at about age 78 in San Francisco, California, United Statesmap
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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Death

25 AUG 1895 San Francisco, California, United States
Cause: fell on head after slip while climbing over a closed gate

FSFTID

FSFTID KJ4Q-93W

Note

Note: [Comment by Weston Andrew Hare] Lived Raphoe, County Donegal until after 1839. Emigrated to Scotland, Greenock- on-Clyde where children were born.  At least Samuel came to America with children. Have letter from Samuel to Julia A. Hair, Dec. 12, 1894 from 855 Myrtle Ave,. Oakland, Cal. starting, “Dear Daughter”. Have pictures, one in frame of Samuel and Elizabeth.
Children:  Eight including the following: Samuel,  Thomas,Andrew b. Jan. 10, 1846   m. Julia A. Weston. William  m. Rachael Radcliff, James b. Oct. 22, 1855, Mary m. Hugh Brown
Two sons, James and Thomas, moved to California
The following was in an e-mail by Norman Mundhenk written 6/27/2013:
At some point I became quite interested in researching the family history. Whether I had this interest already when Grandpa was still living, and whether I did some research at that time, or whether I used to do my research only when Uncle Weston was living at the house, I cannot say. However, reading over Uncle Weston's childhood recollections (which Marj sent me a copy of), I remembered that one thing I loved going through when I was in the house were Grandma Julia's letters.
When I was visiting there, there were a large number of those letters still around. Grandma Julia's parents had moved to the "wilds" of upper New York (somewhere north of Syracuse, if I remember correctly), leaving all of their relatives behind in Connecticut. These letters were letters that were sent back and forth between the young Julia and her cousins in Connecticut. Perhaps there was also a diary. One thing I remember was that the aunts and uncles were always referred to by their last names. It wasn't "Aunt Sally" but "Aunt Converse". I wonder if by any chance those old documents are still in the family somewhere.
Later, I spent a year studying in Berkeley, California (1974-75). While I was there, I was able to trace the branch of the Hair family (remember that it was Arthur who changed the spelling to Hare --- all of his relatives were Hairs). Andrew Hair (Julia's husband and Arthur's father) had indeed come from Scotland, and various of his brothers also came. However, there were some sisters who eventually followed the brothers and brought their old father along with him --- Samuel Hair (if there was a son named Samuel, then this was Samuel Hair Senior). These Hairs remained only briefly in Massachusetts, eventually moving to California and settling in Oakland. I was able to trace them through census reccords and old Oakland City Directories, which were available in the public libraries there. (There were some letters from these cousins, complete with pictures I think, there in the Oxford house, too.)
As a result of these researches in Oakland, I discovered where old Samuel Hair had been buried and I went to check out the cemetery. I found a large stone monument with Samuel Hair's name on it. However, years later when I returned to the same cemetery, I was quite shocked to discover that the section of the cemetery where Samuel Hair's monument had stood had been completely plowed over and the land was being recycled for the sake of people looking for space in the cemetery. The monument was nowhere to be seen.
Whether some of Samuel Hair's Oakland descendents had been contacted and informed about this before it was done, I have no way of knowing. When I was living there, I did make an attempt to contact some of the distant relatives who were still around, and one or two were interested in my story (others denied that there could be any such relatives and told me that I must be making a mistake). I suspect that there are still relatives there now, but apart from my attempt to re-locate the Samuel Hair monument, I have never had the time to pursue this.
I am sure that I have told this story to some of you before, but perhaps it does not hurt to repeat it in writing.
By the way, let me repeat another point. The Hair family were originally from County Donegal, Ireland. They had moved from there to Scotland, and then later moved again to America. Somehow my mother always believed that they were Scottish, but in fact they were Irish. Of course I do not know how many generations the family had been in Ireland. It is quite possible that they were originally from Scotland, "way back".
I once made a trip to County Donegal, to see what I could find. However, I was told (by the Catholics) that during English rule the records had all been removed from the county and taken to Dublin, and never heard of since. The Protestant version of the story was that the records had all been burned by the Catholics during "the troubles" leading up to Irish independence. What both sides seemed to agree on was that the old records were no longer available. Whether this is completely true, or whether there might still be ways to trace a family in County Donegal, I do not know. There's still lots to be done if anyone wants to try!
                                Norm

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1895 Worcester Directory lists Samuel as "removed to San Francisco http://interactive.ancestry.com/2469/10446198/524842296?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fgst%3d-6&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
accidental death of Samuel Hair in San Francisco http://www.newspapers.com/image/80997558/?terms=samuel%2Bhair

Immigration

BET 1846 AND 1850 to Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Note Children to Andrew (b. 1846) were born in Donegal, Ireland; whereas, Thomas (b. 1850) and subsequent children were born in Scotland
AFT 1861 To Massachusetts, United States
Note: listed in 1861 Scotland Census
children were born in Scotland. Youngest, James b. 1855

Residence

1871 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Note: according to Worcester, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1871
1880 Oakland, Alameda, California, United States
Note: according to 1880 US Census
1884 Oakland, Alameda, California, United States
1889 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
1894 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
1895 Worcester Directory lists Samuel as "removed to San francisco"
1895 San Francisco, California, United States

Sources

  1. Hair-604 was created by Theodore Hare through the import of WAHoriginalmembers.ged on Jun 7, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.




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