Re: WILLIAM HAYS: MISSOURI abt. 1830>TX>IND. TERR.
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Re: WILLIAM HAYS: MISSOURI abt. 1830>TX>IND. TERR.
Betty 4/06/06
Hi!
I am searching for Hays connections as well.Am involved with research in KY and Saline Co, MO to try and find certain parents, relatives.Of interest in your reply was a diary from 1871 in TX, likely from a Hays in Parker Co., TX.I am of the impression that the Hays moved to Parker Co from Denton and Collin, maybe Tarrant Co, TX in 1850's after a serious malaria/etc. epidemic there.At that time, one set of Hays moved back to KY.All of the North-Central TX Hays in the 1820-50's may be of same roots but had moved to TX from both KY and MO, maybe TN.First Hays likely was with Collin McKinney wagon train in 1820's that settled originally in Red River Valley area.
Specifically, I am interested in the Hays connection to TX - MO - KY / TN.There are many Hays, many with same first names of Samuel, William, and Charles, so difficult to tell who is who.
I know that there were several Hays families that came to TX in 1850's to Denton/Collin County area and one, Samuel (Jr?) returned to Pulaski/Lincoln Co., KY. However, I suspect that one had parents in Saline Co., MO at the time.
Some partial info on Hays migrations related to me-
George Madison Hays was b 1844 in Saline Co., MO, moved to Pulaski Co, KY by 1845 with parents Thomas Stigall Hays (b 1824 TN but lived early life in KY) and Malvina McAlister Hays (Pulaski Co., KY), had 3 living siblings, mother died before 1859.Father joined CSA in 1862 and was severely wounded. George joined CSA KY Cav in 1862, captured and sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago, released March 1865.Left KY in 1869 with father, Thomas, and his new wife, Paulina Harlan Fisher Hays, for MO; half-sister, Sabra, born in MO, family moved 1870 to Denton Co., TX, but near Van Alstyne, Grayson County.Thomas struggled to survive as farmer, but gave up and moved back to KY in 1878-79 and died there in 1879-80.
George stayed in Denton County, married a girl that had moved there from Macon Co., MO.Died 1924.George's half-brothers, Spears Fisher Hays and McAlister Hays, moved in 1890's from KY to OK (Indian Territory) as farmers and then Spears moved to Brazoria Co., TX by 1910. Half-sister, Laila Hunter Hays, married James Lee Crady in KY and soon moved to TX.
George's father, Thomas Stigall Hays, was believed born in TN but where is unknown.His likely mother was Martha Patricia "Patsy" Stigall from Somerset area of Pulaski Co., KY.She was married to Samuel Hays and had two sons.She then married John Bobbitt in 1834 and then lived/died in Lincoln Co., KY.
Samuel Hays may have died about 1834, and then again, may have been the Samuel Hays that moved to Saline CO., MO in 1834.
From some research, there are a lot of Hays in Saline Co around the 1840-1880 time frame and I still do not have a handle on them all.
I suspec that Thomas's father was the Samuel that moved to Saline Co, likely after a divorce, though no evidence exists for either a death or a divorce.
If so, Thomas was related to many of the Hays in KY/MO/TN, and likely TX.
That is what I am trying to nail down.
Mike Vandervoort