John Henry HAIRSTON

HAIRSTON.org ID#109, b. 7 December 1812, d. 1 August 1838
Father*Hardin HAIRSTON1 b. 23 Oct 1786, d. 23 Oct 1862
Mother*Sarah "Sally" Stovall STAPLES2 b. 1 Oct 1791, d. 4 May 1845
Birth*John Henry HAIRSTON was born on 7 December 1812 in Fort Mayo, Patrick, Virginia.2 
He was the son of Hardin HAIRSTON and Sarah "Sally" Stovall STAPLES.1,2 
Death*John Henry HAIRSTON died on 1 August 1838 in Lowndes, Mississippi, at age 25. Killed by lightning.2,1 
Obituary*The melancholy death of an esteemed planter resisding near this city, Mr. John Harston, by lightning, ought to be a warning to others never to take shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm. A person is safer from the electric fluid in an open field -- Southern Argus, Columbus, Mississippi, 7 August 1938. 
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  1. [S22] Hairston, Elizabeth Seawell, The Hairstons and the Penns and Their Relations, Roanoke, Virginia 1940 https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=13164, Ancestry.com.
  2. [S55] Harden Hairston Family Bible, 1750-1908. The Holy Bible containing The Old & New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues,.....J. Holbrook's Sterotype Copy., Eighth Edition, Brattleborough, (Vt.), 1817, Library of Virginia - http://www.lva.virginia.gov
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