Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Henry Clay Hayman

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Henry Clay Hayman was born in Brown County, Ohio, in 1827, and is a 
son of Sampson and Elizabeth (Reeder) Hayman. The father was of German 
descent, and was born in Pennsylvania in 1787. He was a machinist and 
engineer by trade, and when young went to Kentucky, where he afterward 
married. He then went to Brown County, and his death occurred in 1837. 
The mother was born in Kentucky about 1800. She was the daughter of 
Simeon Reeder, who married Elizabeth Boone, daughter of the famous 
pioneer, Daniel Boone. Mrs. Elizabeth Hayman died in 1835, and was the 
mother of five children, of whom two are living: John Q. A., a wealthy 
miller of Lexington, Ky., and our subject. He lost his mother when 
eight years old, and his father when he was ten years of age, after
which he was cared for by his maternal grandmother until he was 
twelve. He then accompanied his uncle near Flemingsburg, Ky., and 
there worked with his uncle, who was a miller by trade. When nineteen 
he left his uncle, and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and with his twin 
brother, John Q. A., worked in a mill until 1852, when he came to Van 
Buren, where he has since resided, and has engaged in the milling 
business, more or less, ever since. In 1847 he married Miss Jane 
Casner, who was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1827, and has borne 
him three children, all born in Cincinnati, Ohio; Simeon, engineer; 
Ella, deceased, and William, chief engineer of the Van Buren Ice 
Factory. In politics Mr. Hayman is a Republican, and after the 
cessation of the late hostilities, during the reconstruction was 
United States Military Registrar of Crawford County. He has served in 
the city council, at different times, thirteen years, and was a member 
of the school board a number of years. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a 
Past D. D. G. M. of the I. O. O. F. of Arkansas. His wife is a member 
of the Christian Church. 

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