In brief

Born January 12, 1808/1809, in Jay, New York.

Family

Children

  • Alexis Pope Hayes
    b. October 31, 1832, in New York
  • Juliette Cordelia Hayes · in this line
    b. November 13, 1834, in New York, USA
    m. Byron Taylor Loomis, February 17, 1853, in Allen County, Ohio
    d. Humptulips, WA
  • Clarinda Eunice Hayes
    b. May 2, 1838, in Ohio
    m. David McCoy, April 29, 1855
    m. John Anderson Arnold, October 17, 1867
  • Isaac Bover Hayes
    b. February 3, 1843, in Ohio
    m. Sarah Izilla Schaffer, January 18, 1865
  • Russell Jones Hayes
    b. April 8, 1847, in Ohio
    m. Anna Bowyer
    m. Marietta Nixon, August 18, 1885
    d. July 8, 1892
  • Eunice Cordelia Hayes
  • Hester Ann Hayes
  • Enos Oscar Hayes

Siblings

  • Rhoda Hayes
    b. September 14, 1802, in Brattleboro, Vermont
    m. Miletus Newcomb
    d. October 15, 1848
  • Alanson Hayes Jr
    b. October 25, 1804, in Marlborough, Vermont
    m. Fanny Fulton
  • George Hayes
  • Flavilla Hayes
    b. January 1806, in Jay, New York
    m. Joseph Whitman
    d. August 22, 1830
  • Cynthia Hayes
    b. November 1810, in Jay, New York
    m. George Chappell
  • Enos Hayes
    b. September 4, 1812, in Jay, New York
    m. Amanda Smith
  • David Hayes
    b. February 4, 1814, in Jay, New York
    d. March 3, 1832
  • Myla/Mille/Mila Hayes
    b. December 18, 1816, in Jay, New York
    m. Samuel Coleman
    m. Nicholas Handel in Licking County, Ohio
    d. December 18, 1855
  • Amanda-Ann Hayes
    b. March 6, 1819, in Wilmington, New York
    m. Orman Kephat
  • Rusetta Hayes
    b. September 17, 1822, in Wilmington, New York

Life story

A Farmer in Allen County

Nelson Hayes was born around January 1808–1809 in Jay, New York, the son of Alanson Hayes and Rhoda Slaughter, and married Sarah Sally Jones. By 1850 he was farming in Jackson Township, Allen County, Ohio, with real estate valued at $1,500.

Sources (4)
  1. 1850 U.S. Census, Allen County, Ohio, Jackson Township/District No. 6, p. 273b, line 22-27, dwelling 556, family 556, family of Nelson Hayes; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 657; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/4189787-00550 : accessed 8 February 2024).
  2. Reverend Edmund F. Slafter A.M., Memorial of John Slafter (Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1869), 87; reprinted from original images by Scholar Select.
  3. Alanson Hayes Family Bible Records (1781-1822, The Holy Bible (New York: B. Waugh and T. Mason, 1834), “Family Record”; privately held by a family member.
  4. A.W. Bowen & Co., A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio (Chicago, IL: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1896).