Person:Heinrich Gailliot (1)

Heinrich "Henry" Caspar Gailliot was the fifth and last known child born of Anton Gailliot and Johanna Helena Theodora Schlebusch. Henry Gailliot's 1926 death certificate from Viginia, stated his parents were Anthony Gailliot and Helen Schlebusch (informant: Frances Gailliot, his wife). Heinrich's name became anglicized to Henry sometime after he immigrated to America. He was enumerated as "Henry Gailliot" in the 1900 U.S. Census (Allegheny Co., PA, Braddock Boro, 105 Mills St, ED 352, page 2, line 6). Henry was employed by the Edgar Thompson Steel Mills in Braddock. About 1919, Henry and his family migrated to Fairfax County, Virginia, where he purchased a farm. His oldest son, Charles Gailliot, had moved to Washington, D.C., area at least a year before the rest of the Gailliot family arrived. The son, Charles, was employed in the war effort at the U.S. Navy Yard, and was exempted from the draft.

The Gailliot Farm raised chickens until about 1950 when a virus or bad feed killed off the flocks. Shortly after this disaster, the farmland was quarried for sand and gravel and became incorporated as the Hilltop Sand and Gravel Company. The emptied quarries became a landfill for non-reusable construction materials. Finally, the landfill was covered with earth and a golf course was constructed.