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1. Robert Lyle | 9/30/1821, Saluda IN | 12/7/1903, Annawan IL | 3/12/1845 Margaret Crawford, 1891 Mary Baker | 14
2. Mary ~1823? Saluda IN ~1826? Saluda IN n/a 0
3. William Green 12/19/1825 Saluda IN 2/28/1900 Colorado Springs CO 5/4/1853 Samantha Shaw/Shaul 10
4. Andrew Jackson ~1827? Saluda, IN* ~1829? Saluda, IN* n/a 0
5. John Champlain 6/2/1828 Saluda IN 10/12/1915 Austin IN 1/8/1852-Elizabeth Crawford, 2– 2/10/1858 Susan Hardy, 3– 11/7/1893 Mary Jennings 18
6. Minerva Jane 10/2/1830 Saluda IN 6/15/1901 Hawthorne IA 7/2/1846 Henry Giles, Jr. 11
7. Francis Marion 1/22/1833 Saluda IN 2/25/1911 Annawan, IL 11/26/1868 Hannah Adelaide Tower 3
8. George Washington 10/13/1835 Saluda IN 10/30/1887 Clyde KS ~1858 Almira Berry, 2-~1878 Isabella Burge 8
9. Thomas J. 5/12/1838 Saluda IN <1910 Union OK? 6/9/1861 Columbia Berry 2-3/22/1885 Nannie Reigle 3
10. Lawrence B. 11/23/1840 Saluda IN 1914/1915 Cushing OK 7/29/1871 Phoebe Jane “Jennie” Foster 1
11. Margaret 8/26/1844 Saluda IN 8/27/1912 Annawan IL 4/28/1866 Daniel J. Patterson 0
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Note: *One biography mentions child Andrew Jackson as the first-born child of Sarah and Thomas; it is certain this is incorrect. While the marriage record of Sarah and Thomas has never been found, it is certain they were married in 1820, although William Perry Hay did have one story told to him that Sarah and Thomas were just 16 when married (which would be 1816/1817) -- first, they were not living together on the 1820 census and there is no child, and second an 1877 reference, for which the information would have been supplied by Thomas and Sarah themselves, specifies a marriage date of November 23, 1820. Since there is no Andrew on the 1830 census, and he supposedly lived 2 years, 1827 and 1829 are guesses based on child spacing. Almira & Columbia were sisters; Margaret and Elizabeth were sisters.
The Hays emigrated in 1811, just prior to the War of 1812. This "second Revolutionary War" caused special hardships along the frontier, as the British goaded the Indians into attacking Americans, even offering rewards for scalps. There is a fascinating story handed down about how Andrew Maiden protected his family against the Indians (Sarah was just 12), after the infamous attack at nearby "Pigeon Roost" (from the 2011 Jefferson County Genealogical Society newsletter - pdf, p.5). While Andrew Maiden sent his family into a fort at Concord for protection, he stayed behind to protect his cabin and cattle. His four children ranged in age from 12-year-old Sarah to baby Abner.
Thomas Hay and his father William are found in several 1820/21 court records in Scott County, Indiana for larceny probably regarding a purchase of land there. Since they never lived in Scott, while William's son-in-law Andrew Davidson did, I wonder if this had something to do with Andrew, and was the basis of what I assume was a falling out, which is why William left him and his children only $1 in his 1849 will. This was prior to Bella Hay Davidson's death in 1826, however, and may not be related.
From the 1910 History of Henry County, IL by Henry Kiner, p.623 - "Francis Marion Hay. ... He was born in Saluda township, Indiana January 22, 1833, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Maiden) Hay. Thomas Hay, the father of F. M. Hay, grew to manhood upon the homestead in Jefferson county, Indiana, and there was married to Miss Sarah Maiden. In 1854 he came to Annawan on a visit, and despite the fact that it was the year of the great snow storm he was so favorably impressed with the country that in 1855 he returned, bringing his family with him, and bought some land in section 13, Annawan township. There on he lived the rest of his life, save for two years he spent in the village of Annawan, and his active years were busily occupied with agricultural pursuits, where from he derived a gratifying success. ..."
Thomas and Sarah were also mentioned in biographies about their son Robert: 1885 Bureau County and a 1901 Henry County, and in addition, Thomas himself had a short listing in an 1877 book titled "The History of Henry County, Illinois, Its Tax-Payers and Voters" where Thomas Hay's complete entry reads "Farmer; Sec. 13; P. O. Annawan; born Roxburghshire, Scotland, Nov. 26, 1800; came to this country 1811; to Henry Co. 1856; Dem; Univ; owns 240 acres of land, value $6,000; wife was [sic] Sarah Maden, of N. C. born June 2, 1800; married Nov. 23, 1820; has had eleven children." (Sarah is still alive; Sarah and Thomas both die in 1885, so this information would have been directly from Thomas and Sarah themselves; "Univ" is assumed to mean they were members of a Universalist Church.) (Note: the entry above Thomas is for his son Francis Marion Hay, and the previous page includes daughter Minerva Jane Hay Giles.) A marriage date of 1820 is confirmed in the 1885 Iowa obit, which states "they had lived together as man and wife 65 years in June" -- curiously stating the month as June and using the words "lived together" instead of "married;" no record of a marriage has been located.
