1. Elizabeth Hays (June 12, 1776 - Aug. 3, 1828), married Isaac Van Bibber
Elizabeth was born in Fort Boonesborough in the midst of the wilderness in 1776, the year after her parents had helped to establish it. In 1797, she married Isaac Van Bibber (1771-1840). Isaac's father had died in the battle of Point Pleasant, and so Isaac had been raised by Daniel and Rebecca Boone. Isaac and Elizabeth moved in 1799 from Kentucky to Darst Bottom (in present-day Missouri) and then again in 1815 to Loutre Lick in Montgomery County, Missouri (near present-day Mineola). There Isaac ran a tavern along the Booneslick Trail. They had ten children.[1] This house of theirs near Loutre Lick is where Daniel Boone stayed after he fell ill on a hunting trip in 1817,[2] and it is where Daniel Boone killed his last deer, hunting there at the salt lick in 1820.[3] Isaac’s obituary in 1840 said “For years, he kept public entertainment, and travelers will long remember his hospitality, his interesting colloquial powers, his thrilling accounts of things chilling to the blood. As a member of the high and Holy institution of Masonry, he discharged without ostentation and with much liberality, his duties, and the widow and orphan, and indeed every object of charity, received his open hand, the required assistance-innumerable benedictions attend his memory."[4]
2. Jemima Hays (Aug. 31, 1778 - Nov. 6, 1843), married James Davis
Jemima married James Davis, who had also moved to the Femme Osage valley in 1800. They had nine children. In 1804, James shot and killed her father during a dispute - William Hays had been drinking and it was determined that James had acted in self-defense. Sometime after he was acquitted they moved to Kentucky, and in 1819 they moved to Montgomery County, Missouri.[5]
3. William Hays Jr. (1780 - 1845), married Phoebe Stevens
William was born in Boone’s Station in Kentucky and died at home near Fulton, Missouri.[6] He went on several long hunts with his grandfather in Missouri (he claimed that they made it to the Yellowstone River on a hunt with others in 1810-1811).[7] He was a justice of the peace in St. Charles County. The 1830 census records 11 free white people in his household besides him and his wife (11 children?), and his will from 1845 mentions ten children of theirs.[8]
4. Susannah Hays (1782 - c. 1818), married Joshua Dodson
Susannah and Joshua were married on August 25, 1801 in St. Charles.[9] Joshua was one of the Hays’ neighbors in the Femme Osage valley (Missouri) and in 1810 was one of those who formally complained about the Spanish land grants that were being rejected.[10] He was appointed as lieutenant in the militia in 1806.[11] They had six children. Since these children came under Greenup Hays’s guardianship as orphans on November 26, 1818 and Joshua had died in the October of 1816, Susannah probably died sometime in 1818.[12]
5. Boone Hays (1783 - 1850), married Lydia Ann Scholl; 2nd wife ___ Frazier
Born in 1783 in Kentucky, Boone came to present-day Missouri with his parents in 1799 and then settled on his own place in Darst Bottom in 1801.[13] He married Lydia in 1807 and they went on to have ten children. He and his brother Daniel served under their cousin Captain James Callaway in his company of rangers.[14] In 1818, Boone moved to Callaway County, Missouri and built a horse-run mill. In 1836, he purchased some of his uncle Daniel Morgan Boone’s land near Westport, Missouri (near the intersection of 63rd and Holmes).[15] “The roving disposition of Boone Hays took him with his boys alternately across the plains to Old and New Mexico and to the mountains, freighting and trading for profit, and to Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia from whence they brought the finest live stock obtainable to this county. He maintained a large racing stable and his horses met all comers.”[16] He left in 1849 for the gold rush in California with three of his sons and other relatives,[17] and died in Marysville, California the next year.[18]
6. Delinda Hays (1784 - 1850), married Lewis Jones
They were married on April 6, 1815 and had at least four children.[19] Lewis had arrived in Missouri in 1802 and would explore the Rocky Mountains and work as a surveyor in Missouri.[20] They moved from St. Charles County to Montgomery County after the War of 1812, settling about four miles north of Rhineland in the Loutre Rover valley, not far from Delinda’s sister Elizabeth Van Bibber.[21] Lewis was the county surveyor for Montgomery County for a long time, eventually stepping down “on the grounds that he does not expect to live 4 more years and the people would be at the trouble and expence of another election.”[22] Delinda died on their Loutre Valley farm.[23]
7. Daniel Boone Hays (1789 - 1866), married Mary “Polly” Bryan
Daniel moved with his parents to present-day Missouri in 1799. He was wounded twice during his service in the War of 1812, having a limp and a bullet in his neck the rest of his life. He married Polly in 1813. They had twelve children. He owned land along the Femme Osage Creek by 1818. There he built a substantial stone house and several mills. You can still visit his house today at Matson Hill Park. In 1821 he became constable of the Femme Osage District.[24] A company of the Missouri State Guard would be mustered at his place in 1861, a company that included his son John.[25]
8. Greenup Hays (b. 1790), married Eliza Clanton
Greenup acquired land in Montgomery County, Missouri in 1821.[26] There he married Eliza on July 24, 1823.[27] They had four children.[28] He seems to have died before 1850, since by that time Eliza was living with their son Greenup Christopher Hays in Callaway County, Missouri.[29]
9. Mahala Hays (b. 1792 or 1800)[30], married Jonathan Davis
Mahala's husband Jonathan was the brother of James Davis (who was the husband of her sister Jemima, see above). Jonathan had moved to Missouri in 1820,[31] and they married in 1822.[32] They had 13 children.[33] They first lived in the southeastern part of Warren County, Missouri.[34] In 1850 they were farming in Osage County, Missouri with six of the children still at home.[35]
10. Jesse Hays (b. 1794)
He died unmarried before 1817.[36]
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[1] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 178-179.
[2] My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 137.
[3] Isaac Van Bibber (III), Draper Manuscript, Volume 23, Letter 109.
[4] “OBITUARY OF MAJOR ISAAC VAN BIBBER” https://web.archive.org/web/20160403000348/http://bgill1963.tripod.com/ourvanbibberfamilyfromindiana/id15.html
[5] Spraker, 179-180. Meredith Mason Brown, Frontiersman (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2008), 239; John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1992), 287. (Montgomery Co., MO included what is now Warren Co. until 1833).
[6] Spraker, 117; My Father, Daniel Boone, 128.
[7] My Father, Daniel Boone, 120, 127; Brown, 248, 335n42.
[8] 1830; Census Place: Callaway, Missouri; Series: M19; Roll: 73; Page: 76; Family History Library Film: 0014854; and Lilian Hays Oliver, Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District (N.p: Chedwato Service, 1964), 265-266.
[9] Ken Kamper, “Boone Documents” (Boone Campus Library-Archives, 2004), 18.
[10] Territorial Papers of the US; Volume Number: Vol 14; Page Number: 389. Accessed on Ancestry.com (link).
[11] Territorial Papers of the US; Volume Number: Vol 13; Page Number: 547. Accessed on Ancestry.com (link).
[12] Oliver, 272-273, 329; Ken Kamper, “Boone Documents” (Boone Campus Library-Archives, 2004), 18.
[13] Spraker, 180.
[14] Bryan and Rose, 96.
[15] Ken Kamper, Daniel Morgan Boone 1769-1839 - Son of Daniel and Rebecca Boone (2007), p. 6.
[16] Virginia Hays Asbury and Albert Doerschuk, "The Boone, Hays, and Berry Families of Jackson County" Missouri Historical Review (July 1929), 541.
[17] From a letter of Septimus Scholl to Rodney M. Hinde, 1849, quoted here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180816050311/http://wattshaysletters.com/letters/1-lettrs-49-jan61/hist-letters49-j61.html. This website contains many letters regarding Boone Hays’ son Upton Hays.
[18] Spraker, 180.
[19] Spraker, 117; Oliver, 311-313.
[20] William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (Genealogical Pub. 1977 [1876]), 504-505 (they have a section title “Adventures of Lewis Jones”).
[21] Oliver, 311; Bryan and Rose, 234.
[22] Isaac Van Bibber (III), Draper Manuscript, Volume 23, Letter 109.
[23] Montgomery County, Missouri, Cemetery Index, 1836-1954. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2001.
[24] “Boone-Hays History” Matson Hill Park: Master Plan, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20240222235015/https://www.sccmo.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/781, 9-11.
[25] “Boone-Hays History”, 11; and Michael E. Banasik, ed. Confederate Tales of the War (Iowa City, IA: Camp Pope Bookshop, 2010), 162.
[26] U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. (Meridian: 5th PM, Township: 48-N, Range: 6-W.)
[27] Oliver, 329.
[28] Oliver, 329.
[29] Year: 1850; Census Place: District 12, Callaway, Missouri; Roll: M432_393; Page: 214A; Image: 428 (link).
[30] Oliver, 330 says 1792; the year 1800 is calculated from a census, Year: 1850; Census Place: Benton, Osage, Missouri; Roll: M432_408; Page: 459A; Image: 479 (link).
[31] Spraker, 117; Bryan and Rose, 253.
[32] Isaac Van Bibber (III), Draper Manuscript, Volume 23, Letter 109.
[33] Oliver, 330; Spraker, 117.
[34] History of St. Charles, Montgomery, and Warren Counties, Missouri (St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1885), p. 959.
[35] Year: 1850; Census Place: Benton, Osage, Missouri; Roll: M432_408; Page: 459A; Image: 479 (link).
[36] Oliver, 330; Spraker, 117.
