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| '''Robert Hays''' ({{Circa|1758}}{{Snd}}September 15, 1819) a pioneer settler of Tennessee, United States. He co-led the ] against the Cherokee and the Creeks in 1787.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennessee and Tennesseans / by Bethenia McLemore Oldham |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081844320&seq=49&q1=Robert+Hays |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}}</ref> He established the now-extinct settlement of ].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Dan M. |date=1967 |title=Robert Hays, Unsung Pioneer of the Cumberland, Country |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42622953 |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=263–278 |issn=0040-3261}}</ref> In 1786 he married Jane Donelson, a daughter of ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Everett |first=Grace |date=1944-02-14 |others=Madison County (Tennessee) Historical Society |title=The Hays Family, Part II |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jackson-sun-the-hays-family-part-ii/162030076/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |work=The Jackson Sun |pages=3}}</ref> Through this marriage he was a brother-in-law of his neighbor, future president Andrew Jackson. There were five children from the marriage: ] who married Lydia Butler: Martha (Patsy) Hays who married Dr. William E. Butler; ], who married Frances Middleton; Rachel Hays, who married Robert Butler; Narcissa Hays, who never married; and Elizabeth Hays, who married Col. Robert I. Chester.<ref name=":0" /> | '''Robert Hays''' ({{Circa|1758}}{{Snd}}September 15, 1819) a pioneer settler of Tennessee, United States. He co-led the ] against the Cherokee and the Creeks in 1787.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennessee and Tennesseans / by Bethenia McLemore Oldham |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081844320&seq=49&q1=Robert+Hays |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}}</ref> He established the now-extinct settlement of ].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Dan M. |date=1967 |title=Robert Hays, Unsung Pioneer of the Cumberland, Country |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42622953 |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=263–278 |issn=0040-3261}}</ref> In 1786 he married Jane Donelson, a daughter of ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Everett |first=Grace |date=1944-02-14 |others=Madison County (Tennessee) Historical Society |title=The Hays Family, Part II |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jackson-sun-the-hays-family-part-ii/162030076/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |work=The Jackson Sun |pages=3}}</ref> Through this marriage he was a brother-in-law of his neighbor, future president ]. There were five children from the marriage: ] who married Lydia Butler: Martha (Patsy) Hays who married Dr. William E. Butler; ], who married Frances Middleton; Rachel Hays, who married Robert Butler; Narcissa Hays, who never married; and Elizabeth Hays, who married Col. Robert I. Chester.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
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Robert Hays (c. 1758 – September 15, 1819) a pioneer settler of Tennessee, United States. He co-led the Coldwater Expedition against the Cherokee and the Creeks in 1787. He established the now-extinct settlement of Haysborough. In 1786 he married Jane Donelson, a daughter of John Donelson. Through this marriage he was a brother-in-law of his neighbor, future president Andrew Jackson. There were five children from the marriage: Stockley Donelson Hays who married Lydia Butler: Martha (Patsy) Hays who married Dr. William E. Butler; Samuel Jackson Hays, who married Frances Middleton; Rachel Hays, who married Robert Butler; Narcissa Hays, who never married; and Elizabeth Hays, who married Col. Robert I. Chester.
See also
References
- "Tennessee and Tennesseans / by Bethenia McLemore Oldham". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- Robinson, Dan M. (1967). "Robert Hays, Unsung Pioneer of the Cumberland, Country". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 26 (3): 263–278. ISSN 0040-3261.
- ^ Everett, Grace (1944-02-14). "The Hays Family, Part II". The Jackson Sun. Madison County (Tennessee) Historical Society. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
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