William Hays

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Husband William Hays ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Scotland
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Children

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1 F Martha Hays ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: John Wallace (      -      ) 1 3

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2 M James Hays ³

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           Born:  - County Tyrone, Ireland
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General Notes: Husband - William Hays

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He was born in Scotland, but during the religious persecution left that country and settled in County Tyrone, Ireland. He was at the siege of Derry and endured all its trials until relief came, being separated from his family for twenty-two months. His wife and two small children were of the number of those who had been driven to the walls, she having been obliged to walk with her little ones twenty English miles, during which their only food was a little oatmeal which she had secreted on her person. A piece of horsehide purchased during the siege, for a guinea, just before relief came, was preserved in the family.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 334.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 501.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 502.