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Joseph Elzie Hays (Russell County, Kentucky, attorney and slaveholder. )

b. 1822-12-06 d. 1904-01-23

Russell County, Kentucky, attorney and slaveholder. Russell County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sophia Hayes. Married to Mary Ann "Polly" Coffey on March 26, 1854 in Russell County, Kentucky. Father of Sophia Hayes and Hiram Rowe Hayes. Attorney in Russell County in 1850. Resident of Russell County in 1854. Attorney in Russell County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in 1860. Attorney in Russell County in 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Russell County, District 1, p. 237A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Russell County, City/District, p. 646.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Russell County, p. 1.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Russell County, KY, February 1864.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Russell County Marriages, Film # 000594312, p. 61.

"Col Joseph Elzie Hayes (1822-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial #82210819, accessed March 25, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82210819.

Citation

Hays, Joseph Elzie. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201957 (November 12, 2026).

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