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Joel Hays (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer.)

b. 1822?

Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Zerelda Thomas Hutchinson Hays in Harrison County, Kentucky, on June 6, 1846. Father of Ann P. Hays, James H. Hays, and John Hays. Married to Elizabeth Ashbrook in Harrison County on May 20, 1856. Father of Arthur Hays. Farmer in Harrison County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1850. Farmer in Harrison County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 129B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 395.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 471.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216886, 000216888.

Citation

Hays, Joel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280555 (November 12, 2026).

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