John Hays and Mary McNutt

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Husband John Hays ¹

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           Born:  - ? Ireland or Scotland
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           Died: 
         Buried:  - Old Pioneer Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Hugh Hays (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Martha Ramsey (      -      ) 1

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Wife Mary McNutt ¹

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Children

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1 M Hugh Hays ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - Illinois
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2 M Greer Hays ¹

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            AKA: John Grier Hays 2
           Born:  - ? Oakland Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died:  - ? Oakland Twp, Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: Jennie McKnight (      -      ) 1

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3 M Robert Hays ^{1 3 4}

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           Born: 2 Sep 1802 - Allegheny Co, PA 3
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           Died: 1877 - Oakland Twp, Venango Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Mary Ann McKnight (Abt 1840-      ) 3 4 5
           Marr: 1838 3

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General Notes: Husband - John Hays

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Oakland Twp, Venango Co, PA

It was about 1795 that he and his brother Robert arrived at Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and within the next ten years, about 1803-04, they removed to Venango County, where they settled permanently. Coming to Franklin, they secured a tract of one thousand acres in Oakland Township, trading soldier warrants for the land, and the part on which they made a home lay six miles west of the mouth of Oil creek and eight miles north of Franklin. [CAB, 646]

All of the children of John Hays were born to his first marriage. His second marriage took place when he was past seventy, and he lived to be over ninety.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 646.

2 Venango County Genealogy Club, Vital Statistics, Venango County, Pennsylvania 1852-1854, Pg 5.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 611.

4 —, Crawford County Genealogy, Vol. V, No. 1 (Meadville, PA: Crawford County Genealogical Society, Jan, 1982).

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 647.