Person:Martha Hays (5)

Martha T. Hays

• Both Dr. William Edward Butler and Col. Robert Butler's mother was Sarah Jane Semple surname also spelled Semples / Samples.

William Edward Butler and his brother Col. Robert Butler had married sisters Martha T. Hays and Rachel Hays, the nieces of Andrew Jackson. Martha and Rachel Hays' mother was Jane Donelson, sister of Rachel Donelson, who married Andrew Jackson.

1.   Martha Thompson "Patsy" Hays Butler, in Find A Grave.

   Patsy was born 16 Nov 1790 in Tennessee. She married William Edward Butler on May 15, 1811, the same day that Lydia Butler, sister of William married Stokely Donelson Hays, Patsy's sister.
   (DOB Source: From an older typed transcript of the family data in the Dr William E Butler Family Bible, in the file bearing his name in the Tennessee Room Collection, Jackson-Madison County Library: transcribed by J.K.T. Smith. - Information provided by FAG member Betty Finley).

2.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.

   Both Dr. William Edward Butler and Col. Robert Butler's mother was Sarah Jane Semple surname also spelled Semples / Samples.
   William Edward Butler and his brother Col. Robert Butler had married sisters Martha T. Hays and Rachel Hays, the nieces of Andrew Jackson. Martha and Rachel Hays' mother was Jane Donelson, sister of Rachel Donelson, who married Andrew Jackson.