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Elihu Phelps Hayes

Male 1816 - Deceased


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  • Name Elihu Phelps Hayes 
    Born 8 Feb 1816  Essex County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Deceased 
    Notes 
    • 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,........
    Person ID I05555  1A William Bassett of Plymouth
    Last Modified 23 Sep 2011 

    Father Sylvester Hayes,   b. 6 Jun 1792,   d. 12 May 1844  (Age 51 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother Fanny Bassett,   b. 6 May 1790, Benson, Rutland County, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Aug 1850  (Age 60 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Married 1812 
    Family ID F01237  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mercy Adelia Paige,   b. 25 Aug 1817, Granville, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Deceased 
    Married 28 Mar 1839 
    Children 
     1. Thomas Elihu Hayes,   b. 4 Dec 1845, Licking County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Deceased  [Natural]
    Family ID F02523  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart