Yolo-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Hays, William 1838 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM HAYS, a prominent farmer near Madison, Yolo County, was born in Monroe
County, Kentucky, in 1838. His father Jacob Hays, was all his life a farmer, and
is still living, in Woodland; and his mother, whose maiden name was Nancy
Rhiraid, died in Davis County, Missouri, whither the family had moved in 1847.
In 1855 Mr. Hays went to Iowa, remaining there ten months and then started for
California without a dollar, working his way through by driving cattle, and
reaching Sacramento in September, 1856. He at once went to Sonoma County and
worked at odd jobs for a year, and similarly in other counties until 1860, by
which time he had two horses. He then rented a piece of good farming land in
Yolo County, and cultivated it until 1868, when he came to the place where he
now resides, three miles west of Madison, and where he has 620 acres of
well-improved land and raises grain and livestock; has some very fine horses.

  He was first married in Yolo County in 1867, to Miss Albinia Cloyed, and they
had four children, all of whom are living. By his second marriage Mr. Hays was
united with Miss Melissa White, in Yolo County, in 1878, and they have had one
child, now deceased. The children living are Albertie and Albert, twins, Alice
G. and Inowa N. Mr. Hays is a member of Madison Lodge, No. 135, F. & A. M.


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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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