When Basil D. Hays was born on 21 August 1854, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Stanton Hayes, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Murray, was 24. He married Ella Sophia Johns on 9 April 1875, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Warfield, Martin, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 8 March 1902, in Leon, Carter, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Louisa, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English: variant of Hayes .
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