Gallant Hayes Jr

Brief Life History of Gallant

When Gallant Hayes Jr was born in August 1847, in Parke, Indiana, United States, his father, Gallant Elias Hayes, was 36 and his mother, Barbara Huffman, was 29. He married Nancy Jane Batters on 24 October 1870, in Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Arcadia, Madison, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Jackson Township, Reynolds, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died in 1930, in Iron Mountain, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, at the age of 83.

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Gallant Hayes Jr
1847–1930
Nancy Jane Batters
1848–1929
Marriage: 24 October 1870
Ruth Etta Hays
1872–1938
Isophene Hays
1873–1957
Curtis Clinton Hayes
1876–1960
Bertha Jane Hays
1877–1965
Mary Hayes
1879–
Cordia Elizabeth Hayes
1883–1955
Grover Cleveland Hayes
1885–1910

Sources (10)

  • Gallant Hays, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Gallant Hays, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • Gallant Hayes in entry for Mary Hayes, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"

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1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: Madison, Missouri, United States 1857: Iron, Missouri, United States

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha ‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’. Compare McCoy . In some cases especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.

English: variant of Hay , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

English: topographic name from the plural form of Middle English hay(e), heye, heghe ‘enclosure’ (see Hay ), sometimes used as a collective noun for a farm, especially in Devon, where it is a frequent minor placename. Compare Hain .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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