In brief

Born April/18, 1781, in Granby, Connecticut, 2/Brattleboro, Vermont. He married August 13, 1801, in Guilford, Vermont. He died April 3, 1862.

Family

Children

  • 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
  • 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
  • Nelson Hayes · in this line
    b. Jay, New York
  • George Hayes

Siblings

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

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.

Sources (5)
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. A.W. Bowen & Co., A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio (Chicago, IL: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1896).
  4. “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.
  5. Reverend Charles Wells Hayes, George Hayes of Windsor and His Descendants (Buffalo, New York: Baker, Jones & Co., 1884).