Hays 1999 Letters Page

From: Connie Hayes
Date: Monday, December 27, 1999 06:43 PM
Subject: Hays
I am looking for Jefferson J.Hays that was in Marion,S.C. I have found him as a cws solider., but thats about all that saids.I know he had a son named Thomas, have you ever came across these names in your reach?
Thanks,
Connie

From: Mainstreet Hamilton
Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 11:04 PM
Subject: James Hays
I am researching my Hays(Hayes) family lines. My earliest information on my GGGGrandfather James Hays was 1820 Putnam County, Georgia Census. According to the court records of the same county he was awarded custody of 3 grand children from a son Edward. The grandchildren were: James Henry, Mary Ann, & Stephen Hays. They all showed up in the 1830 & 1840 Upson County, Georgia Census. I found his will in the Sumter County, Georgia courthouse. In his will he listed the above grandchildren and 4 children Elijah J., George W., Elizabeth (married Martin Hill), Sarah (married Cargel Wallace). This will was signed Nov. 1, 1847 and was presented in court January 10, 1848. I believe he was born 177-/1775 and died between Nov. 1, 1847 and Jan. 10, 1848. I believe there were more children because my GGrandfather Sidney O. Hayes said he was the seventh son of the seventh son. He indeed was the seventh son of his father George W. Hays but I haven't that George was the seventh son. I have loads of info on George but would like to get information on his sibblings.
Thanks
Anne Hayes Hall

From: Carolyn Robison
Date: Thursday, December 3, 1999 07:35 PM
Subject: Hays website
I descend from Tavenor Hays, who settled in Clay Co., KY and had John, my direct ancestor in the early 1800's.
Carolyn Robison, Brownstown, IN

From: Terrie Daninger
Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 09:39 PM
Subject: John Hays
Hi, I am writing for my father who is doing genology on John Hays born 1755. Also Samuel Hays,Sr. born March 17.1776. If you have any information on those people or know of any web sights that my dad can go to please let me or him know. My e-mail address is joteto@frontiernet.net Terrie Daninger. My fathers address is Jerry at gpaquin@webtv.net
Thank you for you time. Terrie Daninger

From: Barbara Hays
Date: Friday, November 5, 1999 10:02 PM
Subject: Hays Family
Of this much I am sure: Charles Hays, Samuel Jackson Hays, and John C. Hays Came to Claiborne/Bienville Parish, Louisiana between 1818 and 1832 (probably 1820). Charles' wife is thought to be Mounring (Morning) Enochs; Samuel's is Margaret Rachel Tate; John C. Hays' is Mary Clayton. There a lot of missing pieces but it is thought Robert Hays, born Virginia, married Jane Donelson (sister to Rachel who married Andrew Jackson). Andrew Jackson Hays and Samuel Jackson Hays string out all the way to the Louisiana connection but I am unsure just how. Can you help me?

Barbara Hays
khays54048@aol.com

From: JOAN D BIVENS
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:30 PM
Subject: Hays
Hi Patrick,

I am researching James Hays that was born in Virginia in c1800 and went to Monroe County OH marrying Susanna Williams born PA (c1815) in 1835. Any connection?

Joan

From: Barbara Collin
Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 3:05 PM
Subject: The Hays Maze
Dear Patrick,
Sure hope you can shed some light on my own personal Hays Maze. I've gotten back as far as Solomon and Nancy (Rogers) Hays before smacking into the brick wall again. Solomon was born in NC in 1803 and Nancy in 1813. (The oldest records have her born in NC, later ones say IN). They were in Giles County for the 1840 census and already had a houseful of kids, all born in TN. William F. was born about 1830, Samuel L. b. about 1832, Fell b. about 1833, Jane b. about 1835, James T. (some records show "P.") about 1837, Mary J. about 1839, Thomas L. 1841, Rebecca about 1842, Martha S. about 1846, and Frances Minerva born 1850 in time for the census.
W. F. Hays served in Company G of the 3rd Tennessee, formed in Giles County, during the civil war. Thomas married Emily Swiney, daughter of William A. Swiney and Rebecca Jane Cook of Marshall County, TN in 1866, and Minerva Hays married Emily's brother, William Allen Swiney, in Giles County in 1869. They are still in TN in 1872, but sometime after, these four and their children head to Franklin County, IL, joining Solomon and Nancy, who are thought to have gone North first.
William, Minerva, and their daughter died within hours of each other on their farm in Macedonia, Franklin County, IL July 15, 1877 of milk poisoning, leaving their five year old son, Thomas Monroe Swiney, in the care of Thomas and Emily, who raised them with their own children. Solomon died about 1877 and Nancy in 1880. Fell and Samuel don't appear in Solomon's will. Martha Hays Mitchell slugged it out in the IL courts with Thomas and Emily over the will; I never found out how it ended. I don't have a clue where Thomas' siblings were or who they married.
Thomas and Emily's children were Ezra Allen Hays, who married Ollie Irby, daughter of James D. Irby and Olive Hogan, Calvin V., Nancy R., William E., who married Letha Unknown, and Omer L., who married Ella E. Johnson. Ezra and Ollie are buried in Akin, IL, and Omer's Social Security death benefit was paid out in Marion, IL.
Not much to go on. Add to that the grim fact that I've got Cooks, Rogers, Hayses, and Swineys on the same family tree! If any bunch was ever better at skulking around in Tennessee before vanishing off the census, I sure haven't come across them -- but if I do, you can bet I'll be related to them! Dad died abruptly in 1995, and most of the history of his family died with him. I've been trying to reclaim it for his grandchildren, but it's been an uphill climb all the way. Mom's family has it's jolts and spurts as well. If you ever come across John Downs and Mary J. White in Southern Illinois, let me know.... They plopped down on the census, married, had a baby, and vanished without a trace.
Good hunting in your own research.

From: Jeanne
Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 11:37 AM
Subject: HAYS
Hi Patrick,
I am a Hays descendant also. My grandmother's grandfather was James Hays b. 1786 Dutchess Co., NY who m. 1824 Dutchess Co., Charity Cocks b. abt. 1803 Dutchess Co., NY and moved to Oakland Co., MI. in the 1840's. Ch: Ambrose D., Esther Maria, Mary, Andrew Jackson, Lydia Cornelia, Elizabeth and Winthrop Alfonso. Do you know of this line?

From: lkvan
Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 6:56 AM
Subject: (no subject)
yours?Mrs. Evangeline Hayes Bauer.
DAR ID Number: 12064
Born in Indiana.
Wife of Jacob M. Bauer.
Descendant of Capt. Joseph Hayes and of Lieut. Solomon Hayes, of Pennsylvania.
Daughter of Ezra Guard Hayes and Laura Morgan, his wife.
Granddaughter of Joseph Hayes and Nancy Billingsley, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Solomon Hayes and Mary Craig, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Joseph Hayes and Joanna Craig, his wife.
Joseph Hayes raised and equipped a company of cavalry in Chester county and was at the battle of Brandywine. He died in Dearborn county, Ind., 1815, aged ninety.
Solomon Hayes, 1777-78, was second lieutenant in Capt. Robert Cowen's company, Col. John Hannum's regiment.
Also No. 3777.

From: Bill Ramsaur
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:40 PM
Subject: HAYS- South Carolina & Georgia
I saw your Hays listing in GenForum. I noted that you had an Elias Hays (although I think my Elias was born earlier, could be an uncle?) Do you think that we have any connections?
Thanks, Bill Ramsaur

Elias D. HAYS, born 1797 in South Carolina , died 1850s, Wilkinson Co., GA; wife Jane SMITH ( her father was John SMITH), born 1797, died after 1870. Their children--1) Loduska HAYS, born 1831 where?, died 1892 Wilkinson Co., GA, married in 1851 in Wilkinson Co., GA to John R. RUTLAND (1829-1895 who was born and died in Wilkinson County, Georgia.) 2) Josephine HAYS, born 1839, married to Lyman HALL, died 1911, Wilkinson Co., GA

HAYS Families are listed in Wilkinson County starting in 1830 Census: Martin HAYS & James HAYS (married Nellie MOORE in 1835) -- 1840 Census: Charles HAYS & Elias HAYS (wife Jane Smith ) -- 1850 Census Nancy HAYS (born 1823, head of house, child Wallace H. born 1844)

From: Liz Mazza
Date: Saturday, July 31, 1999 10:23 PM
Subject:
I have been trying to locate information regarding Rosella Hays, born Dec. 12, 1850 in Columbus, Ohio, married to William Henry Bishop, Nov. 4, 1866 in West Alexander, Washington County, PA, and died March 8, 1926, in Elizabeth, Wirt County, WVA.
She lived in Ohio County around 1860's - before she was married. I have her death certificate but the marriage certificate is lost and the only record of their marriage is a note in the town archives. They had 8 children: 4 born in Pleasent, WVA (1868, '69,84, and 86), 2 born in Elizabeth, Wirt Co, WVA, and 2 in the state of Ohio .
I am hoping to find her parents - I nothing more than her mother was a Cherokee and her father was white - oral history.
I hope you can provide some additional information.
Thank you,
Liz Mazza

From: David D. Hays
Date: 8 Apr 1999 10:20 AM
Subject: Hays Family Connection
I am looking for info. on Miles Campbell Hays. Believed to have been born in S.C. somtimes around 1810. He was in Madison Co Tenn in the 1830 census. His first wife is believed to have a C Mary Hays. She is buried in Mercer Tenn. at the Hays Family cemetary.

In 1855 Miles C Hays married Elizabeth Bradford Burnes in Blount Co. Al. They had one son Thomas E. born in 1856 in Blount Co Al. Thomas is buried in Cullman Co. Ala. Beech Grove Cemetary.

Any info. would be appreciated. I am very new at this game of genealogy

Thanks much, David D. Hays

From: Virgil and Nancy Hays
Date: 22 Mar 1999 7:42 PM
Subject: Hays Genealogy
Dear Mr. Hays,

We just found your web site and find it very interesting as we are researching the surname Hays.

My husband and I are both descended from George Akin Hays, born in Virginia and Massa ?, born in North Carolina, through their son Campbell. We, as well as several other people, are searching for the marriage of George and Massa in order to find her maiden name.

At the present time, we can't connect with any of the names you have listed but hope to some day as ours originated from the same area.

From: Jo Hays
Date: 13 Mar 1999 1:40 PM
Subject: William R. Hays
Have reached a brick wall in trying to locate William R Hays born about 1790 in Washington Co, KY married Susan Hayden (b abt 1794 same place). Parents of James (1812), Martha Eleanor (1813), Wilford (1816), William Henry (1817), Thomas (1819), Philip Anderson (1824). Wilford, William, Thomas, and Philip are buried in Monroe Co, MO.

Help!

From: Don Ferguson
Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 12:03 PM
Subject: My Hays family
Hi Patrick
Here is my branch of the Hays family from Canada and the UK that I have seen no information on.
Robert Hays, b. Dec 7, 1872 in Pilsley England. Married Lucy Pemberton July 30, 1894 in Ault Hucknall, England. Children Lavina Pemberton Hays, b July 9, 1895 in Hardstoft Eng, William Phillip Hays,b Pilsley Eng., killed Nov 21, 1916-WW1, Mary Louisa, b. Nov 6, 1901 in Kirkby on Ashfield, Eng., Lucy Alice Hays, b Aug 3, 1903 Kirkby on Ashfield, Eng., Winnifred Ada Hays, b Apr 4, 1905 Kirkby on Ashfield Eng., Lillian May Hays, b Sept 10, 1906 Nottingham, Eng., Edith Ellen Hays, b Oct 31, 1908 Lunbreck Canada, John Henry Hays b. March 18, 1911 in Lunbreck, Alberta Canada. (Married Alice Ivy Hays, Aug 7 1937 in Bellevue Alberta.) Dorothy Ethel Hays b Oct 6, 1914 in Hillcrest Canada, and Charles Raymond Hays, b Dec 24, 1915 Lunbreck, AB, Canada.

I know that some or all of Roberts brothers and sisters came from England about the same time in 1906, but noone knows the names of any of them, or where any of them went.

From: Norma J Ames
Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 2:33 AM
Subject: HAY - HAYS
Patrick, just saw your name on this list and. the name Patrick Hay rang a bell, since in my FTM files one of my ancestors was a Patrick HAYS. His daughter Joanna Hays (born 1718) married Andrew Buchanan (born 1714), of Augusta County VA, That is all I have on the Hays but since your name is Patrick Hay I just wondered if you would know anything about (or are descended from) the Patrick and Joanna Hays and the Buchanan line mentioned above?

From: Rebecca N. McLaury
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:08:52 -0800
Subject: Edith Hays
I am looking for Edith Hays' family. She was born in Richmond, Kansas in April 23, 1886 to Will and Alice Hays. Do you know of any Hays in Kansas? Please let me know if you can.

Thank you

Rebecca McLaury

From: Wayne T.T. Dancer
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:01:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hays Genealogy
Dear Patrick,

I recently caught a glimpse of your Web Page and I'm quite impressed with your apparent enthusiasm about your ancestors. I commend you and your contrbuting relatives. It could be that I am a relative.

My Dear late Mother was a Hayes, born in Terre Haute. Her Father's generation was the first to include the "E" in the name exclusively. All earlier generations seemed to stick with "HAYS", with an occasional record of one kind or another including the "E".

In any case, I've worked for 20 years on my Hays ancestors and have literally, thousands of records in my possession. I am descended from one George Akin Hays, born VA, 1785. Although I haven't sufficient proof, I believe I know the 4 generations that preceed him. My records on this clan begin with 1740's Virginia Instruments, and follow this Hays Clan to and through Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and farther reaching places.

Prior to George Akin Hays, ascending, were James C. C. Hays, Andrew Hays, John Hays, and on to Patrick Hays. These folks were in what is now Rockbridge Co. VA. in the 1740's. It was Orange Co. to begin with, later Augusta, then Bottetourt, and finally, Rockbridge, after the Revolution.

After George Akin Hays, proved and descending to me (not including siblings) were Alexander Hays, born Posey Co. IN 1827, John Wright Hays, same, 1849, James Elisha Hays, born 1885, White Co. IL, and finally, my Dear Mother, Arbutus Marjorie Hayes, born 17 Sept. 1909.

You would probably enjoy knowing that Alexander's brother, Campbell was the Father of the notorious, Hannibal Hays, who was really not at all as bad as history would have us believe. Actually, he contributed much support to all of his Brothers and sisters, cousins, and Mom and Dad while living, farming and breeding horses in White Co. IL.

I guess I've said enough for this introductory note. Please write if you think I might contribute favoably to your family history.

Sincerely,

Wayne T. T.

From: LETHIA J SELLERS
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:48:01 -0600
Subject: eugene v hays
HI I WAS LOOKING IN YOUR NAMES IM LOOKING FOR EUGENE V HAYS 11/07/1907 WIFE ELIZABETH JOLLEY 10/21/1907 THEY MARRIED 01/01/1929 CHILREW (2) # 1 EUGENE V HAYS JR. WIFE MARGE CHRISTENSON WIFE #2 HES KIDS KEN LORIE,RICK WIFE # JOAN MILIRON ...... CHILD #2 DELBERT GAYLE HAYS WIFE JEANNE MILIRON JIM,CINDY TIM DENISE WENDY I THINK FROM SPOKANE WA BOTH BOTHER IT LOOKS LIKE WIFES HAD THE SAME LAST NAME (MILLIRON I FROM THE JOLLEY SIDE IF YOU CAN HELP ME I THANK YOU VERY MUCH LOKKING FOR COUSIN LETHIA SELLERS

From: Gwen Lamie
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:48:15 EST
Subject: CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS
Do you have any information on CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS - his ancestors or siblings. He was born in Rock Island Illinois on May 16, 1856 - went to public school in Philadelphia (?) at age 17 went with his parents to live in St. Louis Mo. started working in a railway company - soon became head of railway companies everywhere. Ended up living in Montreal and heading the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway across Canada.

In St Louis he married Clara J. Gregg daughter of William H. Gregg of St Louis. Had four daughters. He died on the TITANIC April 15, 1912.

Any information on this family would be appreciated. He was a cousin of my husbands grandmother - I have two loose ends that I know should come together.

Thank you - Gwen Lamie (103427.1460@compuserve.com)

From: Bill Ramsaur
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 01:44:17 EST
Subject: HAYS Family South Carolina- Georgia
Patrick, I enjoyed your webpages-- Can you help me to find my HAYS connections?, I saw yours and Janie Hays postings in the HAYS Gen Forum-- My Elias HAYS could be the same as she noted from South Carolina--

My GGGrandMother Loduska Hays(1831- 1892), born where?, wife of John R. RUTLAND 1829-1895 who was born and died in Wilkinson County, Georgia. She is buried in Irwinton Cemetery in Wilkinson Co, GA. Loduska Hays' parents were Elias D. HAYS, born 1797, died 1850s and Jane SMITH (father was John SMITH), born 1797, died after 1860. Elias' family is listed in Wilkinson County, GA 1850 & 1860 Census.This is all I have; do you think I can find a match? Regards, Bill Ramsaur