Samuel William Hairston

He operated one of the Iron Works at Union Furnace.  Some of the iron was brought to Mayo Forge, which was located on the river just south of "Poplar Grove."  Here it was made into tools and farm implements.

US CENSUS

   *  1880 S W. Hairston    Mayo River, Patrick, VA Son-in-law  m.  Eliza;  f/m b.  VA. 

Mary C. Penn 77 Samuel W. Hairston 52 Eliza H. 52 Mary L. H 24

Mary Penn 22  Lottie Hairston 19  William Taylor 19  

Roll: T9_1383; Family History Film: 1255383; Page: 83.2000

  *  1860 S W Hairston  Age in 1860: 33  Birth Year: abt 1827  Birthplace: Virginia  

Home in 1860: North Division, Patrick, Virginia Gender: Male Post Office: Elamsville Samuel W Hairston 33 Eliza Hairston 33 John T Hairston 10 George R Hairston 7

Mary L Hairston 9 Elisabeth Hairston 5

 *  http://www.hairston.org/genealogy/genealogy_index.htm

* UNC Hairston collection :
There were many Hairstons, and identifications of individuals in the family is frequently difficult because of the numerous intermarriages of Hairstons with other Hairstons and with their neighbors, the Penns and Wilsons, and because of the repetition of given names in succeeding generations and among contemporaries in different Hairston lines. Elizabeth Seawell Hairston's The Hairstons and Penns and Their Relations (available in the North Carolina Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill), while helpful, should be used with great caution.

Elizabeth Seawell Hairston (1855-1945), hon pres Virginia UDC, mem DAR & Col Dames, m.1st cousin, Judge Nathaniel H. Hairston (b. 1851) 17 Sept 1874.

dau. Eliza Penn Hairston (b. 1826), m. S. W. Hairston (fl. 1826-1866) on 21 October 1848

many other correspondents, inc Eliza Penn Hairston's parents:

Thomas Penn (fl. 1818-1866) and Mary Christian Kennerly Penn (fl. 1818-1866);

bro George Penn (fl. 1840-1861);

sis Martha Ann Catherine Penn (fl. 1820 1866) m. John N. Zentmeyer (fl. 1840-1863),
Sarah Ruth Penn (fl. 1829-1847);
son, John Tyler Hairston (fl. 1850-1861), who was named after her brother.

Eliza Penn Hairston's uncle, George Penn (fl. 1818-1826), also appears

Eliza and Samuel's children and grandchildren were named Eliza or Elizabeth, Samuel, George, William, Nicholas, or Ruth.
Amongst the Hairston correspondence, there are letters from Samuel Hairston's mother, Louisa Hardyman Hairston (fl. 1811-1847), and his brother, Nicholas Perkins Hairston (fl. 1791-1846). There are also letters to and from a George Hairston, who may be either Samuel's father (1750-1827), his brother (1784 1863), or Elizabeth Seawell Hairston's son. There were also several George Hairstons in other branches of the family.

 *  MAY COURT    (25 May 1809)  Present: William Banks, Brett Stovall, John Hall & Robert Sharp & Adam Turner -- Gentlemen Justices ..;  .....to view a way to turn the road from the Widow Duweeses to to the top of the hill between Richard Sharp's & Hairston's Store   & make report   thereof to the Court.

? ? ? ? ? which Hairston cf.: www.freestateof patrick.com