[Ancestor] Hays

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Husband [Ancestor] Hays

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

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

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1 M Abraham Hays ^{1 2 3}

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         Spouse: Fannie Pittee (      -      ) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Hays

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Among the prominent pioneer Scotch-Irish families of Allegheny County and Pennsylvania there is none more worthy of mention than the Hays family. From the "Pennsylvania Genealogies," published by Dr. W. H. Egle, M. A., Harrisburg, 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 American 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 persecution, 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 3}

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

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

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 435.