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Show mmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmii wmmmmmmmmm aw 1 A Corner in Ancestors j By ELEANOR LEXINGTON I Hayes Family j (Copyr)Rht by McCture Bjrndlcn.te ' Tho Hayes family has enough romance, ro-mance, in Its history, to Btock a three- volume novel. Tho romance begins with tho origin of tho name, in 980, A, D., and at the battlo of Loncarty, when, in tho tlmo of Kenneth, HI., the Danes Invaded Scotland. At tho battlo, tho Scots floeing beforo the enemy, were stopped by a countryman, of great strength and courage, and his two sons. Their only weapons were tho yokes of their ploughs. Tho threo brave men rallied the troops, the battlo bat-tlo was ronowed, and the Danes fled, defeated. Tho old man, wounded, and lying on tho ground, cried out, "height height" which translated in modern langutige, is tho equivalent of "hurrah "hur-rah 1 hurrah I" U Is easy to understand how this wo.d became the Hay, Hays, or Hayes of to-day, after of course, passing through n process of evolution. "Lot him bo called Heigh," proclaimed pro-claimed tho king, "and his poBtorlty Torovor more." And thus It was, with the gift of as much land In Perthshire, as a falcon should fly over without alighting. Tho falcon, (knowing whnt wb expected of him) mado lt exactly six miles, alighting upon a stone, whlth is called FalconstonOr The record rec-ord Is qulto explicit upon this point Thi falcon was granted ns a crest, and threo shields or escutcheons one for ach mnn woro the charges, with tho motto "Sorvn Jugutn." TMs thon is ono theory of tho origin or-igin of tho name, and the grantfiTg of ono coat-of-nrmB. Forty arms, moro (ft) or leqs, havo been granted nt different times, to branches of tho H&yes, Hays and Hay families. Heyes Is also an other form of tho name. Hay Is the Scottish form of' tho name, nnd Hayes tho English. In Kent nnd Mtddlesox, there aro towns called Hayes. It there aro those who do not accept ac-cept thu theory of the origin of tbo nnmo Hayes hero glvon, other theories the-ories nro at hand. Ono traces tho word to the Sanskrit kuk, pronounced in English, like hag, or hagh. It tnenns to surround, or gird, and from It, nro the Latin words bay a or hagn; tho Dutch, hang or lingua or helj; tho French, hale or haln; tho Anglo-Saxon hnga or hege; tho English, haw, hedge, hay; tho Lowland Scottish, ting, halg, hnlgh, hay. All menn n fence or boundary In Arabic, the word Is haugon. In Normandy, there were lands nnd a lordship of Hale, a hundred years o moro beforo tho Conquest, nnd Lo Slour do la Hay was ono or William's Knights, 10CC. Do Ilnga, lo Hawo and do In Hayo nro old forms of tho nnmo. Sovornl of the Hayes, Hoys, or Hay name were among foundors of towns In this country In Connecticut, about 1645, wo find Thomas at Mllford, Nathaniel Na-thaniel at Norwolk, and Richard at Lyme; In 1GS0, nt Windsor, Georgo, and In Dover, N. IL, John. Ono of tho rounders ot Newark, N. J along with the Cranes, Treats and a few others, were descendants of Thomas of Mllford, and of the Hayes' name. Georgo ot WlmUor Is supposed to hnvo boon born In Scotland and a Hay. Ho addod "a" or "es" to his name attor arriving In this country, or he hnd lived In England beforo coming hero, nnd had thoro added tho extra two letters to his nnmo. George married, tor his second wire, Abigail Dlbol, or moro probnbly Dibble, (who would bo a Dlbol. If Dlb-bio Dlb-bio was Just as easy?) Their wedding iay was August29, 16S3. As Georgo had threo children by his first wife, ho must have been married when ho came to this country. He was tho proud father of 11 Ave were sons. Ho died at Slmsburg, 1725, and his name signed to his will Is spelled Uys. How a man spelled his name. bowover, In Colonial times, tells 8r nothing. We of to-day know very much better how Georgo should spell If his, nnd Hayes Is tho way. Enougl jg said. I Now, his eldest son wroto his nam a "Daniel Hnls," Dut ho furnishes sc . i much romance although "romance-was "romance-was probably not his name for lt to tho story, that we aro quite willing to allow him any privileges In tho way of orthography. Tlmo fallB to go lpto his story in detail, but ho was car ricd away by Indians to Canada, whero ho was kept four or flvo yeara 1 He finally found his way homo again, and in 1720, built a houso at Slmsburg, Slms-burg, or which the foundation wall still remain. He Is a good ancestoi to claim, If you can, for ho was In tin war called after Queen Anno. His Ii tho oldest stono In tho old Salomon Drook cemetery. Daniel married Mar tha Holcombe, first; Sarah Lee, se- ond; Mary , third, and he bad a 1 large family. B Richard, tho Immigrant, married Patleuco Mack, and they had nine I olive branches. Richard was a lieu tenant In tho French nnd Indian war. 1 Ruthorford D. Hayes, nlnetcontb j president, wub desconded trora Georga I or Windsor. j Georgo Hay or Virginia married a daughter of President Monroe. Hcltmnn's "Ofllcors of tho American Revolution" gives tho following names: From Pennsylvania, Llouton-ants Llouton-ants Patrick, Samuel, Udnoy and Wll Ham Hay trom; Virginia, Surgeon Jo soph Hay. From Now Jersey, MaJ. Samuel Hayes; rrom Virginia, Lieut Thomai Hayes. From New Jersey, Ensign John Hays; from Virginia, Ensigns Andrew " and Robert and Capt John Hays; rrom North Carolina, Ensign Roberf Hays; from Georgia, Lieut. Arthut Hays. Every one knows tho story of Moll Pitcher, the revolutionary heroine Hor nnmo, however, was not Moll - I Pitcher. Sho was born Mary Ludwift and married John Hayes of Ponnsyl I vnnln, nn artillerist. As a Hayea therefore, wo can give her a placo lo I our story. Sho went about with hoi . , "'tfJK a husband, In the war, and Is said tc " " I havo llrcd tho last shot nt Fort Clinton. Clin-ton. When tho fight was on, bIio can rled water with which to swab oul tho guns. In thoso dnys, water buckets buck-ets were called pitchers. This Is why, sho wan called by tho soldiers, "MolJ Pitcher." Thoro Is a story that Washington Wash-ington mado her a sergeant for hei bravery at tho battle ot Monmouth. Two monuments hnvo boon erected tc her memory; ono over her gravo al Carlisle, Pa., and another on the bat tlcfleld ot Monmouth. Whon wo nro told that tho Haye havo strongly marked Scottish characteristics, char-acteristics, wo assent, It wo know tha family well, but not without a re-servo. re-servo. We are not willing to ncknowl edgo that ono Scottish trait is theirs, to a marked degreo; that they are prudent, to the vergo of exclaiming with tho Highlander, thnt he had not been In London two hours beford "bnng went saxpence!" I Favorite namos ot an early genera- I Hon, aro Edward, Julius, Milton, Mllo, I Flavel, and Ezeklol, (thoro soems to 1 hnvo been n rare fascination nbout'the 1 name Ezekrlell Can any ono lay hands upon a family of two or threo hundred years ago that hadn't nn Ezeklol?) Then other Hayes favorites favor-ites were Sarepta, Lucrotla and Me-llssa. Me-llssa. Tho coat-of-arms illustrated Is blazoned: bla-zoned: Three escutcheons, gules. Crest: A talcon rising, proper. Motto: Servn Jugum keop the yoke. Sparo Nought Is tho motto of the Marquis of Tweeddale, whoso family I name Is Hay, as It Is also a Hay or Hayes motto. The Hayes of Chester, Eng., were granted nrms lu 1C15, which Is bin-zoned: bin-zoned: Sablo; on a chevron, nrgent, three leopards' heads, or, a crescent, gules. Crest: A deml-llon holding a pheon, argent, staff, or. |