Ancestoral File as of Oct 1997:
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THE HAYS FAMILY.
DESCENDANTS OF DAVID (1) Hays- FOURTH GENERATION
by Eugenia Morris 1917-1982
WILLIAM VANCE (4) HAYS, (JAMES 3, MOSES 2, DAVID 1):
WILLIAM VANCE (4) HAYS b at Hays Crossing (now Iffley), Allegheny Co. PA. m 1852 Emily Lorain. Three children. Lived at "Meadowbrook Farm", Imperial PA. Built a colonial home there about 1870. He raised and sold horses used in the Civil War. Died 1902. Both buried Valley Presby. Church Graveyard, Imperial, PA.
The three children: (pg 82 of E. Morris manuscript.)
ALLENA GRACE (5) HAYS - Artist and Musician, m 1876 Levi J Stewart. 4 children. d 1911 buried at Valley Presby Ch., Imperial PA. Her name is also preserved in a memorial window in Valley Church.
JOSEPH PARKER (5) HAYS - m Ella Tidball. two children. buried at Valley Presby Ch., Imperial PA.
LEWIS CASS (5) HAYS - He helped build the Northern Pacific RR near Butte MT, before the town was there. md 1st Flora Hindman, grad in music from Blairsville Sem, PA; md 2nd Emma Whetstone. He had six children, three by each mg. D 193-.
buried at Valley Presby Ch., Imperial PA.
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Eugenia Morris's ms pg 83:
FOUR CH OF ALLENA (5) HAYS (WILLIAM VANCE 4, JAMES 3, MOSES 2, DAVID 1) and LEVI STEWART
MYRTLE (6) STEWART - m 1905 Lawrence H. McMichael. One son. She d. Aug 1920.
JOHN HAYS (6) STEWART - m 1908 Sara Lester. Lived Winona, OH in 1960. 2 daughters. D 1969 Salem OH. Buried there at Hope Cemetery.
JAY VANCE (6) STEWART - m Sara Young. Three children. He was Pres and Secretary of Findlay Twp School Board for 18 years and Trustee of Valley Pres. Ch for 37 years. d 1950.
EMILY (6) STEWART - m. (6) STEWART - grad of Beaver and Westminster Colleges, post grad at Columbia U. Taught music in the Sewickley PA schools over 30 years. Retired in 1954 and lived thereafter at Coraopolis, PA. d 1960, Coraopolis PA. Bur Valley Presby graveyard, Imperial, PA.