PIONEER FAMILIES

Madison County TN




Samuel Jackson Hay/Hays
1800 - 1864

Source: Excerpt from "The Hays Scrapbook" (Madison County, Tennessee)
By Jonathan K. T. Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1993

Riverside Cemetery Jackson TN [Lot 386-A in Tombstone Inscriptions]
ELINOR VIRGINIA HAYS, 1886-1909
"T.H"
SALLIE PARKER HAYS, 1848-1890
Captain MIDDLETON HAYS, 1843-1926
JAMES CARUTHERS HAYS, 1875-1962 s/o Middleton & Sallie Parker Caruthers Hays
FLORENCE HAYS HITCH, 1884-1962 d/o Middleton and Sallie Parker Caruthers Hays
LOUIS V. HITCH, 1873-1948 bFalmouth, Ky. s/o Joseph Bryan & Anna (Cravens) Hitch
MARY CARUTHERS HAYS, 1882-1970
TARA AMANDA DAVIS, 1974-1984

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John Middleton Hay son of Samuel Jackson and Frances Pinckney (Middleton) Hay, born in 1843, The Hayses were people of considerable reputation and wealth in antebellum Madison County. (taken from obituary of Capt.Hays- Middleton Hays became a farmer on a large scale and also served as a Captain in the Jackson City Police Department. In his later years, he was an oil inspector for the city of Jackson. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, a member of the John Ingram Bivouac of the United Confederate Veterans and a member of the Moose Lodge of Jackson. Though he left the University of North Carolina to join the Confederate Army that school conferred upon him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911, as a member of the Class of 1864. He was a member of the Epsilon Alpha Fraternity and the Phi Literary Society while a student there. He was also a member of the Alumni Association of that school. Middleton Hays died at 7:30 P.M. on May 15, 1926 at his home at 270 west Baltimore Street in Jackson. He was eighty-three years old. His wife, Sallie Parker Caruthers Hays died on April 3, 1890 and both are buried at Riverside Cemetery in Jackson.)


Mr. Davis supplied Jonathan Smith with the following genealogical data:
John Middleton Hays, (known as "Mid/Middleton", June 28, 1843-May 15, 1926
married, Dec. 16, 1868,
Sallie Parker Caruthers, April 5, 1848-April 3, 1890; daughter of James Caruthers
Their children:
1. John Middleton Hays, Jr., Feb. 20, 1871-Jan. 21, 1888
2. Frances Laura Caruthers Hays, Feb. 27, 1873-Jan. 26, 1946; married Stephen Murphy
3. James Caruthers Hays, March 6, 1875-Feb. 22, 1962; never married
4. Samuel Jackson Hays, May 22, 1876-July 24, 1953; married Anne Ferreday
5. Musidora McCorry Hays, Aug. 3, 1878; married Clyde Hunt
6. Stoddert Caruthers Hays, Nov. 7, 1880-Aug. 7, 1887
7. Mary Caruthers Hays, April 16, 1882-Nov. 12, 1970; never married
8. Florence Parker Hays, July 17, 1884-Nov. 11, 1962; married Louis V. Hitch
9. Elinor Virginia Hays, June 23, 1887-Dec. 19, 1909; not married
10. Trimble Middleton Hays, Nov. 23, 1888-Jan. 31, 1963; married Ida Mae Rice; among their children was Mary Frances Hays, b. 1927, wife of Joseph Cleveland Davis and one of their children was Joseph Cleveland (Joe) Davis, Jr., born 1949 (married; father of three children, one of whom, Tara Amanda, is buried in the Hays lot in Riverside).

SHOOTING SCRAPE AT JACKSON

A Negro Shot and Killed by a Seventeen-Year-Old White Boy

Jackson, Tenn., Dec. 25, — Sam Hays, son of Mid Hays, a member of the Jackson police force, is charged with firing a shot which killed Will Austin, a negro, last night: on West LaFayette street. Sam and his brother, Ruddy, were in a grocery store when some words passed between them and Austin. The boys and Austin went out on the street, where the quarrel was renewed and the negro was shot in the abdomen, dying in a short time. When found, Austin had a knife clutched in his hand. Young Hays waived an examination this morning, and gave bond for his appearance. Hays is not over 17 years of age, and is a member of a prominent family.

A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT
Young Middleton Hayes Falls from His Train and is Killed.

A deplorable accident occurred on the Mobile & Ohio railroad, near Carroll, this county, last Friday evening. Middleton Hayes Jr., son of Mr. Middleton Hayes of this city, and aged about 19 years, while braking on a freight train, in some way lost his balance and fell between the cars. He was not missed till the train had reached Humboldt. Search was made for him and he was found lying on the track, nearly dead, a leg crushed, an arm broken and chilled from lying on the snow. He was brought home and prompt attention given him but he did not rally from the shock and died about 3 o'clock Saturday morning. The parents have our sympathy in their hour of sadness. The funeral took place from the residence Monday, Rev. A. W. Jones D.D., officiating.