Sketch of the Hays Family, Warren County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Jeremiah Hays, of Ireland, married Jane Moore, of Scotland, and came to
America and settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky, where they had: Mary,
Delila, Nancy, Joanna, Absalom, Jane, Thomas, Joseph and Mahala.  Mr.
Hays, with his wife and two daughters, Jane and Mahala, started to Mon-
tgomery County, MO., but when they reached St. Louis, he died.  His 
widow and children settled near Marthasville.  Jane married Oliver Mc-
Cleur, of Pennsylvania, who was a blacksmith, and settled in Warren
County.  Mahala married John Ward, of Kentucky, who was a hatter, and
also settled in Warren County.  Absalom and Joseph Hays came to Miss-
ouri with Dr. John Young, in 1816.  Joseph married Kate Mahoney, and
settled in Montgomery County.  Absalom was the second Sheriff of Mont-
gomery County, and after the organization of Warren, he was elected
the first Sheriff of that county, which office he held alternately un-
til 1845.  He married Anna Skinner, of Montgomery County, by whom he
had: Jeremiah, Susan, John A., Jane and Mary C.  The year after Mr.
Hays' marriage he had to attend court at Lewiston, and took his wife
and little child with him to her father's, who lived on Camp Branch,
to remain while he was at court.  But the session lasted longer than
he expected, and his wife, impatient to be at home, persuaded her 
father to go with her.  The journey was too long for one day, and they
stopped over night at the house of Mr. John Wyatt.  During the evening
Mrs. Wyatt put on her spectacles, and after scrutinizing Mrs. Hays and
her child very closely for some time, she turned to Mr. Skinner and 
said she was "monstrous" glad that was not his wife and child, for
"of all things she did despise upon this earth was an old man with a
young wife and child; for," she added, "it is the most bominubler thing
in the world."  Mr. Hays was lame from his birth, and sometime before
his death he was thrown from a horse and received an injury from which
he never entirely recovered.  After the death of her husband, Mrs. 
Hays continued to live on the farm near Marthasville, until the late
war, when she was broken up, and has since lived with her children.
She now resides in Jonesburg, Montgomery County, with her daughter Jane
and still enjoys good health for a person so advanced in years.

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