James Monroe Hays and Ella Bell

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Husband James Monroe Hays ¹

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           Born: 3 Nov 1842 - Beaver Co, PA 2
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         Father: Thomas Hays (1811-Abt 1900) 1
         Mother: Amelia Eisenhour (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1867 2

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Wife Ella Bell ²

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         Father: Josiah Bell (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 M Robert M. Hays ²

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2 M George M. Hays ²

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           Born: 6 Feb 1870 2
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3 F Maude S. Hays ²

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General Notes: Husband - James Monroe Hays

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He had not yet attained his majority when the Civil War broke out, but he offered his services in defense of his country and enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, June 30, 1862, and served until the close of the war. When the war ended he was in Andersonville Prison, having been confined there eleven months and fifteen days. When his country no longer had need of his services he returned to Beaver county, and learned the plasterer's trade in 1866. He followed this for some time, then established himself in the hotel business in Pittsburgh, East Liverpool and Rochester. He was the proprietor of the St. James Hotel at Rochester for over seventeen years. He was a member of the Episcopal church, and his fraternal affiliations were: Post No. 88, Grand Army of the Republic, of Allegheny; Veteran League, Beaver Falls; Rochester Lodge, No. 229, Free and Accepted Masons; Rochester Chapter, No. 167, Royal Arch Masons; Beaver Falls Commandery, No. 84, Knights Templar.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 249.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 250.