Marty and Karla Grant

!NOTES:I (Marty Grant) am not related to this person as far as I'm aware.
(1) I am interested in all Marion Co., SC families to some extent.
(2) This person is an uncle/aunt of my aunt-in-law Debra Rogers McIntyre.


!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 374 Marion Co., SC Benjamin Hays 1835
Will dated 1 Jan 1835 pr 26 Jan 1835
dau Sealy Allin and her two youngest daus Elizabeth and Nancy Ann.
sons James, Joseph, William, Levy and Jesse Hays.
To John Martin his wife Elizabeth Martin, her sons Alexander, Jehu and Stephen Wilson.
Wife Elizabeth
dau Sally wife of Samuel Smith.
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Guardian Bond 14 Feb 1845 John Martin gdn to -
A. H. Martin, Stephen Wilson, Taltha A. Martin, Jamse Martina nd Elizabeth Martin, grandchildren of Benjamin Hays.
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!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 892/896
James Hays Sr 58 Farmer $700 Marion
Orra 38
Martha 7
Penny 5
John 1;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 170-173

Hays.—Another family of note in Hillsboro Township is the Hays family. The common ancestor of that family was Benjamin Hays; I do not know who his wife was; he raised a considerable family of sons and daughters; the sons, as remembered, were James, Jessee, William H., Joseph B. and Levi H. Hays ; the daughters, as remembered, were Mrs. Elias Allen, the mother of the late Rev. Joel Allen, and Thompson Allen, of Marlborough County; Mrs. Samuel Smith, of Buck Swamp, who died in 1857, and Mrs. John Martin, of Buck Swamp and Maiden Down; there may have been other daughters. These sons and daughters are all dead, some of them for many years, but were the stock of a numerous progeny —down to a second and third and even to a fourth generation ; many of them unknown to the writer, and, therefore, can say but little about them.
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James Hays married a daughter of Matthew Jones, of Robeson; he raised a large family of sons and daughters ; the names of these sons, as remembered, were Reaves, Henry and James R. ; they were older than the writer, and all are dead. One of them was the father of our respected fellow-citizen, above Buck Swamp Bridge, W. D. B. Hays—the upper bridge is meant. There are several bridges across Buck Swamp now. The bridge near Page's was, for a long time, the only bridge on the swamp, and acquired the name of Buck Swamp Bridge ; and when we say Buck Swamp Bridge, that bridge is meant. I do not know to whom these sons of James Hays were married. ;

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 895/899
Henry Hays 32 Farmer $800 Marion
Elizabeth 26
William 8
Zilpha 6
James 4
Redden 3
Henry 6/12
Reaves Hays 25 Farmer $1500;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 170-173
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James Hays married a daughter of Matthew Jones, of Robeson; he raised a large family of sons and daughters ; the names of these sons, as remembered, were Reaves, Henry and James R. ; they were older than the writer, and all are dead. One of them was the father of our respected fellow-citizen, above Buck Swamp Bridge, W. D. B. Hays-the upper bridge is meant. There are several bridges across Buck Swamp now. The bridge near Page's was, for a long time, the only bridge on the swamp, and acquired the name of Buck Swamp Bridge ; and when we say Buck Swamp Bridge, that bridge is meant. I do not know to whom these sons of James Hays were married. ;