HAYES FAMILY
1. Isaac1 Hayes b ca 1767 VA d abt Oct 1838 Holmes Creek,
DeKalb Co., TN m Mary Elliott b 1764 d 1840-50 DeKalb Co., TN. Isaac was living
in period 1799-1808 in Pulaski Co., KY with Atnips, Clarks, McGinnis’ and
Trapps. These families would later all have descendants on Holmes Creek. Isaac
was farmer and land owner in DeKalb Co., TN. He made his will on 12 Oct 1838 and
it was probated on 5 Nov 1838. Witnesses to his will were E. Wright and Thomas
Clark.. He mentioned sons, Isaac H. and John Hays; daughters, Ann Hays,
Elizabeth McGinness, Mary Clark, Margaret Hays & Rebecca Williams; grandson
Isaac H. Hays, Jr and wife Mary.1
1850 DeKalb Co., TN Census Dist 10
874-Isaac H. Hays 24 M Farmer $300 TN mwy
Ebeline 25 F TN mwy
Umphrey Williams 36 M Farmer Unk
Ann Hays 53 F NC
875 Stephen Atnip
876 Job Trapp.
877 William D Trapp
878-Richmond D. Williams
879-James Collins
880-Margaret Hays 50 F KY
881-Elizabeth McGinnis
882-Richard McGinnis
883-Jemima Atnip
District 9
961-Isaac H. Hays 44 M Farmer KY
Sarah 43 F NC
John A. 21 M Farmer-School TN
Jasper E. 18 M Farmer-School TN
Permelia 17 F School TN
Newton M 15 M
Farmer-School TN
Mary M. 13 F School TN
Elizabeth
S 10 F School TN
Isaac H. 7 M School TN
987-John Hays 27 M Farmer $200 TN
Elizabeth
25 F MD
Isaac 6 M TN
Ann 4 F TN
Elizabeth 11 TN
Children:
2. (i) Elizabeth2Hayes b ca 1788 d 1840-50 DeKalb Co., TN m Richard
McGinnis.
3. (ii) Mary2 Hayes b 31 Jan 1791 d 28 Apr 1841 DeKalb Co., TN m Benjamin
Clark.
4. (iii) John2 Hayes b ca 1793 d 1841 DeKalb Co., TN m Susannah
_________.
5. (iv) Anne2 Hayes b ca 1796 NC d aft 1860 never married.
6. (v) Margaret2 Hayes b ca 1799 Pulaski Co., KY d 1850-60 never married
dau Mariah Hayes.
7. (vi) Rebecca2 Hayes b ca 1802 Pulaski Co., KY d by 1850? m Richmond
Williams.
8. (vii) Isaac Hill2 "Sportin Ike" Hayes b 9 July 1805 Pulaski
Co., KY d ca 1885-90 DeKalb Co., TN m 1st Permelia Foster m2nd Sarah
Merritt.
8. Isaac Hill2 "Sportin’ Ike" Hayes, (Isaac1), b 9
July 1805 Pulaski Co., KY d 1885-90 DeKalb Co., TN m1st Permelia Foster d 1825
dau of Joel Foster m2nd Sarah "Sally" Merritt b 1807 NC d 1850-60
Holmes Creek, DeKalb Co., TN dau Benjamin Merritt and Elizabeth ______. Sportin
Ike lived on Holmes Creek, farmer and landowner. Supported South during Civil
War. Children of Isaac H. Hayes and Permelia Foster:
(i) Isaac Hill3 Hayes, Jr b 31 July 1825 Smith (now DeKalb) Co., TN d AR?
m Evaline Fuson.
Children of Isaac H. Hayes and Sarah Merritt:
(ii) John H.3 Hayes b 25 Nov 1828 Smith (now DeKalb) Co., TN d AR? m
Matilda Pack
(iii) Jasper E.3 Hayes b ca 1831 Smith (now DeKalb) Co., TN d AR? Mary
____.
(iv) Permelia3 "Melie" Hayes b ca 1833 Smith (now DeKalb) Co.,
TN never m children.
(v) Newton Merritt3
Hayes b ca 1835 Smith (now DeKalb Co., TN m Almira Badgett.
(vi) Mary M.3 Hayes b 1837 DeKalb Co., TN d DeKalb
Co., TN never m son Columbus Hayes was Baptist Minister.
(vii) Elizabeth Lois3 Hayes b 1840 DeKalb Co., TN children then m 7 Jan
1869 Tim McCorkle and had four children.
viii. Isaiah H.3 "Zay" Hayes b ca 1843 DeKalb Co., TN m ?Adaline
Atnip
1850 DeKalb Co., TN Census Dist 10
874-Isaac H. Hays 24 M Farmer $300 TN mwy
Ebeline 25 F TN mwy
Umphrey Williams 36 M Farmer Unk
Ann
Hays 53 F NC
875 Stephen Atnip
876 Job Trapp.
877 William D Trapp
878-Richmond D. Williams
879-James Collins
880-Margaret Hays 50 F KY
881-Elizabeth McGinnis
882-Richard McGinnis
883-Jemima Atnip
District 9
961-Isaac H. Hays 44 M Farmer KY
Sarah 43 F NC
John A. 21 M Farmer-School TN
Jasper E. 18 M Farmer-School TN
Permelia 17 F School TN
Newton M 15 M Farmer-School TN
Mary M. 13 F School TN
Elizabeth S 10 F School TN
Isaac H. 7 M School TN
987-John Hays 27 M Farmer $200 TN
Elizabeth
25 F MD
Isaac 6 M TN
Ann 4 F TN
Elizabeth
11 TN
1870 DeKalb Co., TN Census Dist 9
3-3-Hays, Isah 25 MW Farmer $200 TN I. H. Hayes m M. A. Atnip 16 Jan 1869
Adaline
20 FW Keeping house TN
Helen
3/12 FW TN Mar
4-4-Hays, Mary 36 FW Keeping house TN
Newton
11 MW Farm Laborer TN
Sarah 7 FW TN
Isaac 63 MW Farm Labor TN
5-5-Hays, Albert 24 MW Laborer TN Apr
Elizabeth
23 FW Keeping house TN Apr
District 10
102-102-Hays, Isac 45 MW Farmer $1800 $1455 TN
Evaline 42 FW Keeping house TN
Permilia 18 FW TN
Walker 17 MW Farm Labor TN
Montgomery
16 MW Farm Labor TN
Misouri 14 FW TN
Ewing 13 MW TN
Whaley 12 MW TN
Polly 10 FW TN
Fourest 5 MW TN
117-117-Hays, Mary 33 FW Keeping house TN
Samantha 12 FW TN
Sefronia 10 FW TN m 15 Dec 1878 James Bratcher
Kersey 7 FW TN
Amanda 4 FW TN
Columbus 2/12 MW TN Feb
118-118-McCorkle, Timothy 20 MW Laborer TN
Lois 30 FW Keeping house TN
Columbus 2/12 MW TN
119-119-Hays, Elizabeth 8 FW TN
Morgan John 6 MW TN
William 4 MW TN
122-122-Hays, Permiela 38 FW Keeping house TN
Marion 13 MW Laborer TN
McDonald 9 MW TN
John 1 MW TN
Dred Fish and Walk Hayes by Thomas G. Webb
The people of DeKalb County, Tennessee, were deeply divided in their sentiments
during the Civil War. Although Tennessee was a Confederate State, many DeKalb
Countians still supported the Union. A number of men were in neither army, but
banded together in guerilla groups known as bushwhackers. Some of these bands
were Confederate sympathizers; some were Union sympathizers. Some had already
served in the Confederate Army; some would later serve in the Union Army. But
from June of 1863 until the fall of 1864, they rode where they wanted and did
what they wanted. DeKalb County during that time had no sheriff, no courts, and
no law enforcement; the bushwhackers were a law unto themselves. One of the
Union bushwhackers was Dred Fish, the Red Fox, Etheldred Fish lived on a farm
between Indian Creek and Holmes Cree; his property joined that of Isaac Hill
Hayes, though the Hayes home and the Fish home were probably some distance
apart. Hill Hayes was a Confederate symathizaer, and Dred Fish and his gang of
bushwhackers came looking for him at his home. They came with a fearsome
reputation: They had not only taken horses, hams, and chickens from homes that
they raied, but they had already killed three men. When the bushwhackers
searched the premises and failed to find Hill Hayes, they began to terrorize his
wife and seven young children. Dred slapped Hill’s wife when she refused to
tell where he was, then turned to the loom where she was weaving cloth for a
shirt for ten-year-old Walk Hayes, her oldest son. Cutting the cloth from the
loom, Dred said that he would take it home to his son, who was about the same
age. As the bushwhackers left, Walk Hayes told Dred Fish that if he lived to be
old enough, he would kill him for what he had done that day. A few months later,
in September of 1864, the Fourth Mounted Infantry Regiment of the Union Army was
being organized in DeKalb County. Even though he was allmost forty years old,
Dred Fish joined as a private in Company F.
Even though the war was over, old hatreds still lingered. Walk Hayes had not
forgotten his promise to kill Dred, and neither had Dred. When Dred passed Walk’s
house (which was fairly often, as they lived on adjoining farms), he would taunt
Walk and call him names. So neither of them forgot; Dred was rubbing salt into
the wound. On 27 December 1870, Dred Fish sold his farm between Indian Creek and
Holmes’ Creek. Where he lived after that is uncertain; he may have lived in or
near Smithville. Dred is said to have been a deputy sheriff at this time, and he
well may have been; his old commanding officer, Joe Blackburn, served as high
sheriff from 1870 to 1874.
Walk Hayes by 1872 was about twenty years old. He had lived to be old enough,
and now he intended to kill Dred Fish. He got a six-shot pistol and waited for
his chance. It came in the fall of 1872. Walk was in the yard of the courthouse
at Smithville and had his pistol loaded and ready. He saw Dred Fish coming, got
right behind him, and as Dred set his foot on the courthouse step, Walk shot him
three times in the back. When Dred turned around, Walk fired his three remaining
shots into him. Before he died Dred told him, "Well, you said you would
kill me-I didn’t believe you, but you’ve done it."
Walk Hayes was arrested, but was eventually released by making bond theat he
would appear in court. Walk never appeared, however, as he left the state. And
the bond was not forfeited because Walk Hayes’ lawyer, Taylor Shores, managed
to get hold of the bond and secretly destroyed it by literally eating it and
swallowing it. Walk is said to have gone to Harrison Arkansas. Within a year or
two, his father’s family sold their property in DeKalb County, Tennessee, and
also moved to Harrison, Arkansas.
Children of Mary M. Hayes
i. Samantha Hayes b 1858 DeKalb Co., TN m abt
12 Sep 1877 Tom Dabbs
ii. Safronia Hayes b 1860 DeKalb Co., TN m 15 Dec 1878 James
Bratcher
iii. Louisa Kersey Hayes b ca 1863/64 m Toney Hill
iv. 4. Amanda Hayes b 1866 DeKalb Co., TN
v. Columbus Hayes b ca 1870 DeKalb Co., TN m 4 June 1892 Amanda
Wilkerson
vi. 6. Isaac Roland Hayes b ca 1876 DeKalb Co., TN descendant is Dr
Keith Ramsey.
vii. 7. Ellen Hayes b ca 1877 m1st Abner Womack m2nd Green Williams
possibly two more.
Children of Elizabeth Lois Hayes
i.. Sally Ann Hayes b 1858 DeKalb Co., TN
ii. John Morgan Hayes father was one of General Morgan's soldiers.
iii. William Hayes b 1866 father was George Bond
iv. Elizabeth Hayes b 1862.
Children of Elizabeth Lois Hayes and Tim McCorkle
v. Columbus McCorkle b Mar 1870
vi. Bob McCorkle b May 1876
vii. Rackey McCorkle b Dec 1880
viii. Roane McCorkle b Dec 1880.
Children of Permelia Hayes
i. Marion P. Hayes b 1856 m 20 Dec 1879 Rebecca Holly father of Marion was Capt
John Pack.
ii. McDonald Hayes b 27 Sep 1858 m Tennessee Atnip. His father Dick McGinnis
iii. John Hayes b 1869 m Lucy Johnson. His father Elias Lane, Jr.
iv. Willie Hayes b? his father Bethel Taylor.
Thomas M Dabbs, born 18 December 1858 in DeKalb Co TN married Samantha Hayes on
12 Sep 1877. Samantha Hayes Dabbs had red hair and blue eyes died before 1900.
Thomas then married Martha Jane Miller (White) 19 Mar 1900 in Limestone CO AL
and had Earline and Thomas Huggins Thomas Dabbs died 10 Jan 1936 and is buried
in Dement Cemtery in Limestone CO AL. Thomas and Samantha had 7 children in TN:
i. Mattie narried Will Carter in 1905, died before 1906
ii. Etta married Charlie White in 1899, died before 1902 buried Dement Cemetery
iii. Tilden died young
iv. Louvenia born 3-11-1885 married Marques des Lafayette (*DEE*) Rose died 3
April 1970 buried Temperance Oak Cemetery
v. Sallie born 3 May 1887 in DeKalb Co TN married John Wesley Eubanks on 3 Nov
1906 in Athens AL. They had 9 children. This is my line (Kaye)
vi. Oma Lee born 8 Apr 1890 married Robert Felix Lovell 12 Jun 1901 died 19 Jun
1952 buried Higgins Cemetery
vii. George Bennan Dabbs born 7-13-1891 in Smithville and died 17 Jan 1993 in
Nashville Married Susie Anna Lee in 1919 in Athens AL and
they had 8 children Served in World War 1 Private George B Dabbs enlisted in
Athens AL, served in 6th company 2nd red Bn 157, Depot Brigade. He was 27 years
of age at enlistment, a farmer, blue eyes, black hair, fair complextion and 5' 3
1/2" in hgt .
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