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- 1875 History of Licking County, Ohio
E. P. Hayes
E.P. Hayes, was born in Essex County, New York February 8, 1816. Was
brought by his parents to Ohio in 1817. At the age of eighteen he engaged in
the manufacture of potash, and followed the same for some ten year
March 28, 1839, he married Mercy Adelia Paige, born in Granvill
August 25, 1817. Her father was Nathaniel Paige, born in Hardwick,
Massachusetts, in April, 1776. Her mother was Phoebe Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Paige
lived together as husband and wife over seventy years. They came to Granville,
Ohio, in 1815, where they passed the remainder of their lives. He died at the
age of ninety-two years and nine months, and she at the age of eighty-nine
years. Both were members of the Episcopal Church.
Thomas Elihu Hayes, the only living child of E.P. Hayes, was born in
Licking County, Ohio, December 4, 1845. He served in the late war in Co. B,
135th O.N.G.; was a prisoner for nearly five months, during which time he all
but died from exposure and starvation.
Cora M. Hayes, adopted daughter of E.P. and Mercy A. Hayes, was born
in Ohio, August 6, 1860. Mr. Hayes is a judicious and vigorous farmer, and for
some twenty years past has been a large wool-grover. He is a man of good
social qualities and of sterling character. His entire family are connected
with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has long been a pillar. The
father of E.P. Hayes was Silvester Hayes.
History of Licking County by N.N. Hill Jr.
(1881) p.695
Union Township - Hays, E. P., farmer, post office, Union station. He
was born in Essex county, New York, February 8, 1816. He first engag
business for himself in the manufacture of potash on a quarter section of wild
land in the Rathborn tract in Union township. He then, about the year 1844,
commenced clearing up this farm for cultivation. He then followed, from that
time, agriculture and dealing in stock. He was married to Miss Adelia Paige,
March 18, 1832. Thomas E. Hays, the only living child, was born in Licking
county, Ohio, December 4, 1845. He served in the late Rebellion in company B,
One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio national guards, and was captured at North
Mountain, Virginia, July 3, 1864. He was marched to Andersonville, where he
was held for a period of five months, suffering all the horrors and cruelties
of that notorious prison. The subject of this sketch, through his industry and
economy, is now the owner of three hundred and fifty acres of valuable land
under a fine state of cultivation. He has also a fine dwelling house and four
large barns. His son is living on a portion of the farm, and occupies a
prominent position in society and in the Methodist Episcopal church.
An Historical Story of the Elihu Phelps Hayes Ashery
(excerpts)
Elihu was very busy the winter of 1838-39 getting his log cabin built
on the cherished 162 acres. On March 28, 1839 he and Mercy Adelia were married
and she became the mistress in the new log cabin on the Ashery farm. Three
little boys were born in the log cabin. Two died in infancy, but Thomas Elihu,
born December 4, 1845, lived, and was loved by all the uncles and aunts, and
they were many, for Sylvester Hayes and Fanny Basset Hayes had 9 children and
Nathaniel and Phoebe Smith Paige had 14. He was not too rugged a little boy,
but eager to go to school. No school bus, then, Alas! He, at 7 years, walked
through the big woods along the fence clear over to the log school house on
the Old State Road, now known as Granview Road. Mrs. Stacia Hessin (who lived
where Mr. Colburn now lives) would call little Tommy to her cabin and make sure
his feet were dry and warm before he went on to school with her three
boys,........
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