Abiah Hayes

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: 18 Dec 1780 - , Washington, Pennsylvania, USA
    Christening: 
          Death: 27 Jul 1858 - Hardinsburg, Dearborn, Indiana, United States
         Burial: in Miller-Hayes Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana, USA
 Cause of Death: 

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Parents

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         Father: Enoch Hayes Sr
         Mother: Elizabeth P. Stephens

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Nancy Ann Crabtree
       Marriage: 25 Dec 1801 - Scioto Valley, Ohio
       Children:
                1. Elizabeth Hayes
                2. Nancy Hayes
                3. Silas P. Hayes
                4. Isabella Pike Hayes
                5. Van Hayes
                6. Abiah Hayes {FGID: 68244830}
                7. Joseph Hayes {FGID: 8775381}

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Notes

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General:

Per Findagrave.com
Birth: Dec. 18, 1780
Death: Jul. 27, 1858
This cemetery is located on Route 50 between Elizabethtown, Ohio and Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
Cemetery can be seen from Interstate 275 South/West.
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ABIAH HAYES was born December 18, 1780, in Washington County, Penn., where he continued to reside until near his twentieth year, when he removed to the Big Bottom, where his grandfather (Joseph HAYES), and four of his uncles, had settled some years previously. He located in the valley of the Big Miami, not far from where Thomas Miller, Sr., first settled. Here he invested all his money in the purchase of two and one tenth acres of land, whereon he reared his log cabin. This two and one-tenth acres formed the nucleus of his future fortune. With untiring energy and perseverance, which he possessed in a high degree, he made thirty-three trading voyages to New Orleans, and sixteen times returned home on foot, through the Indian nations, and once he went around by sea with his cargo, which he disposed of at Norfolk, Va., Alexandria and Georgetown, D.C., returning home by Washington and Brownsville, paying a visit to the place of his nativity and burial place of his father, thence from Pittsburgh, by the Ohio River home. Thus at the age of fifty-five years, he had become the richest man in Dearborn County. He was cool and collected, never suffering himself to be carried away by passion, he seemed to meditate much, and converse sparingly and never was taken at a nonplus. During the war of 1812 Mr. HAYES belonged to what was called the Rangers, served one trip around by Brookville, Pipe Creek, and the head of Tanner's Creek. Seeing no enemy they returned home. Maj. McHenry was the captain; Mr. HAYES hired a substitute to finish his term of service, thus bidding adieu to the profession of arms. Mr. HAYES raised a large family, seven of whom lived to womanhood and manhood and were married. But three of them survive him -- two sons and one daughter. About eight years since he lost his wife, the companion of his youth. Some four or five weeks passed, he complained of a pain in the side of his face, which was supposed to be a boil; it grew worse and broke. On Monday the 19th Samuel Morrison and Henry Hardin visited him; he conversed freely and sensibly with them, recounting the reminiscences of the past as vividly as though they had just transpired; he retained the full enjoyment of his mental faculties to the last. He was taken with a congestive chill on Monday the 26th (having had two chills previously) which terminated his pilgrimage on earth. He died at the residence of his son, Abiah HAYES, Jr., in the vicinity of Hardinsburg, July 27, 1858, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached by Rev. E. D. Long, attended by two other clergyman, at the Bellevue Methodist Episcopal Church, to a very large audience, among whom were to be seen pioneers Judge Isaac Dunn, who has been in the Miami Valley over sixty-nine years; Job Miller and his sister-in-law Sarah Miller, over sixty-eight years; Bailey Guard, sixty-seven years; Thomas Miller, Joseph HAYES, Walter HAYES, Jesse Hunt, Thomas Hunt, over sixty years; Jonathan Blasdall, Elizabeth Blasdall, John Cullahan, fifty-five years, and Samuel Morrison, a native of the county of Dearborn, born in 1796. Thus another of our number has been called away. Peace be to his sleeping dust. He has felled the last oak, reared the last log cabin, plowed his last furrow, his corn is laid by, his harvest is passed, he sleeps his last sleep.
"HISTORY OF DEARBORN AND OHIO COUNTIES, INDIANA-1885"
Burial: Miller-Hayes Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA
Created by: Frank James Gruber Record added: May 17, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 8773397