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D.r. Hays unknown - 
Washington County KyArchives Biography

Author: Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 3rd ed. 1886

JUDGE D. R. HAYS. The paternal ancestors of Judge D. R. Hays were natives of Scotland, his grandfather, William Hays, coming from that country to the United States and settling in Washington County, Ky., between the years 1785 and 1790. He made a home near Springfield, was a farmer and for a number of years was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He later moved to Hardin County, where he died. Subject's maternal grandfather was David Burchum, native of one of the Eastern States. He came to Kentucky four years after the Hays family, settled near Springfield and died in Hardin County. William Hays, father of Judge Hays, was born in Maryland and was eighteen months of age when his parents came to Kentucky and settled at Harrod's Station, near Harrodsburg; at seven years of age his parents moved to Washington County, where he grew to manhood, and was a successful farmer and business man and departed this life in 1866. His wife, Eleanor (Burcham) Hays, was born in Maryland and died in Washington County in 1863. Thirteen children were born to William and Eleanor Hays, to
wit: Mrs. Mary Lewis, Mrs. Rebecca Short, Mrs. Nancy Ray, Hercules, Mrs. Sallie Shaunty, John J., Alfred b., Teneriffe, Cyrus W., William H., D. R., Ellen and James B. Hays. Judge Hays grew to manhood in Washington county and was educated in the country schools, which he attended until his eighteenth year. He remained at home until twenty-two and then commenced life for himself as clerk in a mercantile house at Chaplin Town, Nelson County, serving a short time, and later effected a copartnership with J. B. Marshall in the good business, which was continued about eighteen months. He afterward sold goods with J. L. Lyle for one year, then returned to Washington County and engaged in farming, purchasing a farm a few years later near Willisburg, upon which he resided seventeen years. He next purchased his present beautiful place of 400 acres - Locust Hill Farm - six miles north of Springfield, in the Pleasant Grove neighborhood, where he has since resided. Mr. Hays was elected judge of the Washington County Court in 1870, and held the position four years, and was elected president of the First National Bank of Springfield in 1880, an office he at present holds. He is a Democrat in politics, but originally voted with the Whig party, his first vote having been case for Henry Clay. He was married on the 12th of June, 1849, in Nelson County, to Miss Mary McMakin, daughter of Peyton and Catherine (Bayne) McMakin, by whom he had three children: Catherine E. (wife of B. L. Litsey), Mary E. (died at sixteen months of
age) and William P. Hays. Mr. and Mrs. Hays are Active members of the Willisburg Christian Church.


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