[Ancestor] Hays

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Husband [Ancestor] Hays

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• Note: This may be the same person as : [Ancestor] Hays - Hayes.

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1 M Abraham Hays ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Fannie Pittee (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Hays

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Among the promi-nent pioneer Scotch-Irish families of Alle-gheny County and Pennsylvania there is none more worthy of mention than the Hays fam-ily. From the "Pennsylvania Genealogies," published by Dr. W. H. Egle, M. A., Har-risburg, Pennsylvania, the following is taken: "This name has had a varied orthography-in olden times De la Haye and De la Haya, while in later, Hay, Hays and Hayes. The Ameri-can branch of the family write it Hays, as a general thing. In Burke's Peerage is a very interesting account of the origin of the Hays arms, which was, 'argent, three escutcheon gules,' to which was afterward added 'crossed arms, each hand grasping a short sword and supporting the escutcheon gules, surmounted by a crown.' "

William Hays, a native of Scotland, left that country during the religious persecu-tion, and settled in County Tyrone, Ireland. He was at the siege of Derry, and suffered with the rest of the besieged until relief came, being absent from the family twenty-two months. ¹

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 769.

2 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 136.