John G. Hays was born May 6, 1803, in Georgia and died Sept. 11, 1887, in Webster County Mississippi. He married Sarah Mathis, who was born May 15, 1803, in Georgia, and died March 27, 1857. John G. Hays and Sarah Mathis had the following children:
- Lucinda Hays born 1824 GA; married Joshua Hightower
- Vincent Allen Hays born 1826 GA; married Elizabeth Ann Aldridge; died 1876 in Webster County, MS
- Martha Ann Hays born 1829 GA; married William D. Dunlap; died 1901 in Grady, MS
- Mary Jane Hays born 1831; died Webster Co., MS; married James Middleton in 1847; died 1849 in Webster Co., MS
- Elizabeth Hays born 1836 AL; married Redding Thompson; died 1858 in Webster County, MS
- Sarah Hays born about 1839 AL
- Nancy M. Hays born 1841 AL; died 1860 MS
- Adaline Hays born about 1843 MS
- John A. Hays born 1848 MS; died 1856 Webster Co., MS
Vincent Allen Hays was born October 1, 1826 in Georgia. He married Elizabeth Ann Aldridge. Elizabeth was born January 4, 1829 in Montgomery Co., AL, and died September 23, 1905, in Webster County, MS. Vincent Allen Hays died March 11, 1876 in Webster County, MS. Vincent and Elizabeth had the following children:
- William Aldridge Hays born 1849 in Walthall, MS; married Mary Pernelia Harvey; died August 20, 1931, in Walthall, MS
- John G. Hays, II born 1850 in MS; married Cecelia B. Garner; died 1893 in Montgomery Co., MS
- James Ira Wister Hays born 1852 in MS; married Laure E. Finch; died 1905 in Ada, OK
- Sarah L. Hays born about 1854 in MS
- Emma Lenora Hays born 1855 in Webster County, MS; married Charles M. Garner in 1873; died 1938
- Jefferson Davis Hays born 1857 in Webster County, MS; died 1858
- Edwin D. Hays born 1857 MS; married Emma F. Harrod in 1879 in Webster Co., MS; died 1939
- Louis Hays born 1858 in MS; married Zadie C. Head in 1881; died 1915; buried Wetumka, OK
- Temperance Elizabeth Hays born about 1861 in MS; married Joseph I. Ballinger
- Vincent Marshall Hays born 1862 in MS; married Florence A. Rose in 1882, in Webster Co., MS; died 1929 in Indianola, MS
- Charles Allen Hays born 1864 in Choctaw Co., MS; married Sara Lou "Sallie" Josey; died 1938; buried in Eupora, MS
- Robert Palmer Hays born about 1866 in MS; married "Dink" Threadgill; died in 1938 in Forest City, AR
- Emily L. Hays born 1868 in MS; married Andrew Jackson Zinn; died 1943 in Slate Spring, Calhoun Co., MS
- Annie Eliza Hays born 1874 in MS; married James L. Threadgill; died 1914 in Winona, Montgomery Co., MS
John G. Hays, II was born 1 November 1850 in MS and died in 1893 in Montgomery Co., MS. He married Cecelia B. Garner. Cecelia was born in 1849 in Montgomery Co., MS, the daughter of John W. Garner and Mary(?). John and Cecelia had the following children:
- Martha Vernon Hays born 1873 in Webster Co., MS;
married Henry Monroe SKELTON
- Thomas C. Hays born 1876 in Webster Co., MS; married Mattie Lee Bartlett
- Nolie Hays born 1877 MS; married William Kealhofer
- Edna Hays born 1879 Winona, MS; married Allen L. O'Keefe
- Ransom Hays born about 1880 MS; married Inez Smith
- Connie Aldridge Hays born 1882 Webster Co., MS; married Marshall Thomas Blount
- Temperence Elizabeth Hays born 1885 MS; married Fred Thomas Leonard
- Jack Hays born MS
- Howard "Cost" Hays born about 1886 MS; married Annie Smith
