Bio of HAYES, Edmund W., Wright Co., MN
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407   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

Edmund W. Hayes, a pioneer, was born in what is now West Virginia. 
James Hayes, his father, was a farmer and also operated sawmills and flour 
mills in the old days when the only motive power in each mill was a great 
waterwheel.  Edmund W. Hayes grew to manhood in his native state and there 
married Susanna Lantz. In 1869 they brought their family to Wright county, 
and secured 240 acres on the shores of Fountain lake, in section 6, Franklin 
township. A little less than four acres had been cleared, and in this 
clearing stood an old frame building, sided up with rough boards. But though 
the place was crude and in the wilderness, the members of the family were 
glad to be once more permanently located after their long trip down the Ohio 
river, up the Mississippi river, and thence overland to Franklin township. 
They had brought a pair of horses 

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with them. Soon they purchased a yoke of oxen and started clearing the 
land. They put up a log house and a log barn and prepared as well as 
possible to begin farming operations. The first year they sowed about 
an acre and a quarter of wheat, planted two or three acres of corn, and 
in between the stumps put in as many potatoes and rutabagas as possible.
With this beginning the Hayes family became one of the most substantial 
and prosperous in the community. Edmund W. Hayes died on the homestead 
March 13, 1870, at the age of fifty-four years, five months and five days. 
His wife died September 28, 1889. The children in the family were: 
Samantha, who married Silas Snodgrass; Ezra, of Wetzel county, West Virginia; 
Sarah, who married James H. Ferrell; Alexander, who married Mary Willey; 
James, who married Jane Hostitle; Andrew J., Alice, Malissa, Nicholas and 
Simon.