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James Hays

James Hays

Male 1792 - 1854  (62 years)   Has 2 ancestors and 14 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name James Hays
    Birth 1791/1792  Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    _TAG Uncle/Aunt ancestors 
    _UID 5B86898DD2DAD4118AC4444553540000062D 
    Death 1850/1854  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I40304  Marty and Karla Grant
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2019

    Father Benjamin Hays,   b. 1760/1765, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jan 1835, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    Mother Elizabeth,   b. 1770/1774, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1840/1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Marriage Bef 1791  Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 326058D036D23E43B3909A9038E0B71B9A72 
    Family ID F9039  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Hannah Jones   d. Bef 1842, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage Bef 1818  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID C4B95861C05DE34087729F883279B03D2E79 
    Children 
     1. Henry Hays,   b. 1817/1818, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 33 years)
     2. James R Hays,   b. 1817/1818, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 33 years)
     3. Reaves Hays,   b. 1824/1825, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 26 years)
    Family ID F15496  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

    Family 2 Orra,   b. 1811/1812, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 39 years)
    Marriage Bef 1842  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 23A91C4C4AA35E4E93CECC04DBA0727B661F 
    Children 
     1. Martha Hays,   b. 1842/1843, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 8 years)
     2. Penny Hays,   b. 1844/1845, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 6 years)
     3. John Hays,   b. 1848/1849, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 2 years)
    Family ID F15497  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

  • Notes 
    • !NOTES:I (Marty Grant) am not related to this person as far as I'm aware.
      (1) I am interested in all Marion Co., SC families to some extent.
      (2) This person is an uncle/aunt of my aunt-in-law Debra Rogers McIntyre.


      !REFERENCE:
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      http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/


      !NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 374 Marion Co., SC Benjamin Hays 1835
      Will dated 1 Jan 1835 pr 26 Jan 1835
      dau Sealy Allin and her two youngest daus Elizabeth and Nancy Ann.
      sons James, Joseph, William, Levy and Jesse Hays.
      To John Martin his wife Elizabeth Martin, her sons Alexander, Jehu and Stephen Wilson.
      Wife Elizabeth
      dau Sally wife of Samuel Smith.
      ...
      Guardian Bond 14 Feb 1845 John Martin gdn to -
      A. H. Martin, Stephen Wilson, Taltha A. Martin, Jamse Martina nd Elizabeth Martin, grandchildren of Benjamin Hays.
      ...;


      !CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 892/896
      James Hays Sr 58 Farmer $700 Marion
      Orra 38
      Martha 7
      Penny 5
      John 1;

      !REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 170-173

      Hays.—Another family of note in Hillsboro Township is the Hays family. The common ancestor of that family was Benjamin Hays; I do not know who his wife was; he raised a considerable family of sons and daughters; the sons, as remembered, were James, Jessee, William H., Joseph B. and Levi H. Hays ; the daughters, as remembered, were Mrs. Elias Allen, the mother of the late Rev. Joel Allen, and Thompson Allen, of Marlborough County; Mrs. Samuel Smith, of Buck Swamp, who died in 1857, and Mrs. John Martin, of Buck Swamp and Maiden Down; there may have been other daughters. These sons and daughters are all dead, some of them for many years, but were the stock of a numerous progeny —down to a second and third and even to a fourth generation ; many of them unknown to the writer, and, therefore, can say but little about them.
      ...
      James Hays married a daughter of Matthew Jones, of Robeson; he raised a large family of sons and daughters ; the names of these sons, as remembered, were Reaves, Henry and James R. ; they were older than the writer, and all are dead. One of them was the father of our respected fellow-citizen, above Buck Swamp Bridge, W. D. B. Hays—the upper bridge is meant. There are several bridges across Buck Swamp now. The bridge near Page's was, for a long time, the only bridge on the swamp, and acquired the name of Buck Swamp Bridge ; and when we say Buck Swamp Bridge, that bridge is meant. I do not know to whom these sons of James Hays were married. ;


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