Alanson Hayes

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes

Born

c. 1781 · Granby, Connecticut

Died

April 3, 1862

Married

August 13, 1801, in Guilford, Vermont

Also known as

Elanson Hays

Family

Father

Mother

Child in this line

Spouse

Children

Rhoda Hayes
b. September 14, 1802, in Brattleboro, Vermont · d. October 15, 1848
m. Miletus Newcomb
Alanson Hayes Jr
b. October 25, 1804, in Marlborough, Vermont
m. Fanny Fulton
George Hayes
Flavilla Hayes
b. January 16, 18062/18073, in Jay, New York · d. August 22, 1830
m. Joseph Whitman
Cynthia Hayes
b. November 28, 18102/1811, 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
Myla4/Mille2/Mila3 Hayes
b. December 18, 1816, in Jay, New York · d. December 18, 1855
m. Samuel Coleman; Nicholas Handel in Licking County, Ohio
Amanda-Ann Hayes
b. March 6, 1819, in Wilmington, New York
m. Orman Kephat
Rusetta Hayes
b. September 17, 1822, in Wilmington, New York

Siblings

Elihu Hayes
d. Chesterfield, Clinton County, New York
Jeremiah Hayes
d. Chesterfield, Clinton County, New York
Sylvester Lansing Hayes
m. Fanny Bassett

In brief

Born April 171, 2/184, 1781, in Granby, Connecticut, 2/Brattleboro, Vermont. He married August 13, 1801, in Guilford, Vermont. He died April 3, 1862.

Life story

Clearing Ohio Forest

Alanson Hayes was born April 17, 1781, in Granby, Connecticut (or possibly Brattleboro, Vermont), and married in Guilford, Vermont, in 1801. A well-to-do farmer, Alanson moved to Allen County, Ohio, in 1848, where he and his son of the same name cleared some 300 acres of forest to establish their farm. Alanson died April 3, 1862.

At a glance

Lived

Came to Allen County, Ohio

Sources (5)

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.
Alanson Hayes Family Bible Records (1781-1822, The Holy Bible (New York: B. Waugh and T. Mason, 1834), “Family Record”; privately held by Tina Grimes, (https://www.ancestrychick.com/2016/04/alanson-hayes-family-bible.html : accessed 27 May 2024).
A.W. Bowen & Co., A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio (Chicago, IL: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1896).
“Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908,” images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/4661/images/41268_312337-03334 : accessed 3 July 2026), Birth Record for Elanson Hays; citing State of Vermont, Vermont Vital Records through 1870, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
Reverend Charles Wells Hayes, George Hayes of Windsor and His Descendants (Buffalo, New York: Baker, Jones & Co., 1884).