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Template:SWVA Hays tapestry
Source
- from Mark Hays, personal communication, 25 joy 2014, with Q 20:19, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
Related
- Person:William Hays (39)
Notes
I think…that the HAYSes in Davidson, Wilson and Smith Co. (and Greene Co in East TN too) are primarily descendants of the Old Augusta clan. They most likely didn’t jump from Rockbridge Co right to Nashville. I think the great majority started earlier and migrated down the Shenandoah Valley to Southwest Virginia -- maybe some relocated temporarily to North Carolina to avoid the Indian troubles….
- The youngest son of Andrew and 2nd wife, Margaret (Stephenson), was David Hays who married Hally Montgomery. He migrated to and died in Davidson County TN. Before David went to Tennessee he was living with his brother Joseph Hays and his wife Jenny Colville Hays in Southwest Virginia in Washington Co. near Abingdon. Hally Montgomery and her family appears to have been from the Washington Co. area too.
- Captain John Hays, Jr. (aka John “Hermitage” Hays) was the neighbor of my 4th GGF William Hays and left the Rich Valley in Southwest Virginia near present-day Marion in 1786 and settled in a part of Davidson County that later became Wilson County on Little Cedar Lick Creek. He is the head of the branch that produced Harmon A. Hays and his son, the famous Texas Ranger, John Coffee Hays among others.
- In the Clinch River Valley near present-day Russell and Tazewell counties, a James Hays and wife Rebeckah sell their land from their place of residence in Davidson County TN on February 1, 1797. Interestingly, this James Hays’ property is next to Andrew Lammie, the same guy that had a land dispute with a Tate man (originally claimed by Arthur Campbell) where my William Hays gave a deposition. One of the John Hays men from Augusta area was in debt, being sued and an order was issued to bring him back. In execution of that order, they came looking in Southwest Virginia and it’s noted on the paper that it is NOT the man in the Rich Valley but to check the John Hays on the Clinch River.
- There are a handful of HAYS families in this part of the Clinch River with all the right given names: James, John, Charles, Samuel, William. I haven’t seen much research besides my own on these guys but I believe they are also connected with the Old Augusta clans. I believe, but have no proof, that the Samuel Hays that was killed on his doorstep near the Donelson home by Indians was from the Clinch River group.
- Greene County Tennessee Heritage Book claims that an early settler by the name of Charles Hays, who was the progenitor of the large HAYS family in Greene, was the same man that owned land in the Borden Grant next to his brother Andrew. They connect him as the son of the original emigrant John Hays, the Oath Taker.
- My great grandfather was orphaned at age 5 in California. He was raised by ‘self-described’ cousins. The head of that branch of HAYSes, who were very successful farmers in Woodland (Yolo Co.) and Healdsburg (Sonoma Co.) California, was a Jacob Hays born 1809 in Greene County, Tennessee. My family lived near these guys in Western Missouri when it was the frontier.
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