Footnotes for letters 91- 98: 1886

Footnotes for Letters 91 - 98: 1886 -1890

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(1) From Anna Hays in Jackson Co., Missouri to Margaret Watts Hays Overstreet.
(2) Boone Hays, Anna Hays’ brother and Margaret’s nephew.
(3) Samuel Hays
(4) Elinor Hays (1858- before 1896.
(5) Insane Asylum, St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri.
(6) Amazon Scholl Hays (1860-1939) a son of Samuel Hays who had moved to California.
(7) Mariam Hays (1870-1955), a daughter of Samuel Hays.
(8) Virginia Ann Hays Asbury (1851- after 1910), a daughter of Samuel Hays. She had married William Foster Asbury in 1875.
(9) Mary Agnes Asbury (1878- after 1955)
(10) Frederika Hays Smith (1871- after 1955). She had married William H. Smith in 1885.
(11) Sophia S. Hays Booth (1856- after 1896), a daughter of Amazon Hays had married John P. Booth in 1877.
(12) Bulah H. Booth (1880-?) and Hays T. Booth (1881-?)
(13) Mary Frances Hays (1856-1907) had married Hamilton Tessaun Howell in 1875.
(14) Fannie’s children were Hamilton B. Howell (1876), Amazon Pizarro Howell (1879), Nellie Howell (1892) and Hester Howell (1884)
(15) Linville Hays (1863-?)
(16) Anna R. Hays (1887- 1921), a daughter of Amazon Hays.
(17) Joel Andrew Whiteside (1856-1936) married Margaret Hays’ daughter, Jane Upton Hays in 1881.
(18) Lemoore, Tulare (Kings) Co., California
(19) From Boone Hays in Jackson Co., Missouri.
(20) Jane Upton Hays Whiteside (1862-1945)
(21) Amazon Hays 1820- after 1887)
(22) tongue out of the sleigh – A horse was hitched to the tongue to pull the sleigh.
(23) Huron, Fresno Co., California.
(24) sheep shearing
(25) James R. Hays (1843-?), Boone Hays’ older half-brother.
(26) Boone Hays (1860-1918). A son of Amazon and Mary B. Berry Hays.
(27) Anna R. Hays (1867- after 1910), Boone’s sister, married Greenville K. Bates in 1887.
(28) Linville Hays.
(29) Henry Harper, married to Margaret’s cousin Rachel Yager, was an executor of Samuel Hays’ estate. The note probably was part of Upton Hays’ estate.
(30) George Briant, a banker and executor of Samuel Hays estate.
(31) Alfred Boone Hays was Laurinda and Linville Hays’ son who had move his family to a farm near Margaret Hays Overstreet in the late 1870’s.
(32) Probably Augustus Byram (1823-?). The 1870 Atchison, Kansas Census lists Augustus Byram, age 47, born in Kentucky, a Capitalist with $75,000 in property and $50,000 in income. His father was an early settler of Jackson Co., Missouri.
(33) Laurinda W. Holloway Hays, Margaret’s sister-in-law.
(34) From a daughter of Amazon Hays to Margaret Watts Hays and William B. Overstreet.
(36) Amazon Hays
(36) James R. Hays (1843-?), the writer’s half-brother.
(37) Probably Henry Claude Hays (1871-1955)
(38) Mariam Hays McMurtry (1826- after 1888)
(39) Westport, Jackson Co., Missouri
(49) James H. Rout (1861-?), the writer’s cousin.
(41) Mary Agnes Asbury (1878- after 1955), the writer’s cousin.
(42) Mary Agnes McMurtry (1842-1916)
(43) Mary Frances Hays Howell (1856-1907)
(44) Anna R. Hays Bates (1867-1910)
(45) Amazon and Mary B. Berry Hays.
(46) Nancy J, Berry Craghead (1841-after 1910). She lived in Fresno Co., California
(47) Sarah Anna Berry McMurtry (1847-1913) She lived at Tollhouse, Fresno Co., California.
(48) Francis Chick (1806-1899) was married to Elenor Hays a sister of Amazon Hays. They lived in Callaway Co., Missouri.
(49) From Laurinda W. Holloway Hays to Margaret Watts Hays Overstreet.
(50) Linville Hays
(51) Amazon Hays
(52) Laurinda’s daughter Temperance J. Hays and husband James Foster.
(53) Alexander Jackson Major’s farm near Westport, Jackson Co., Missouri.
(54) Van Daniel Hays (1853- after 1920), Laurinda’s son.
(55) Mariam Hays McMurtry, Laurinda’s sister-in-law.
(56) James H. Rout, Laurinea’s grandson.
(57) Mary Agnes Asbury, Laurinda grand-niece.
(58) Elinor Hays, a niece, had been confined in the insane asylum in St. Joseph, Missouri.
(59) Tuberculosis.
(60) William Foster Asbury (1851-after 1900) was married to Laurinda’s niece, Virginia Ann Hays.
(61) Claude C. Overstreet (1878-1968), Margaret’s son.
(62) Farm and Fireside – a popular periodical of the 1880’s. It was founded by P. P. Mast in Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio to advertise the farm cultivators his company produced and evolved into periodical that carried articles of interest to rural Americans. It featured drawings by Norman Rockwell, personal success stories, articles on homemaking and farming. The company is now the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.
(63) From Sophia S. Hays Booth to Margaret Hays Overstreet.
(64) Mary B. Berry Hays (1823-1901) was Margaret’s cousin and sister-in-law.
(65) Amazon Hays.
(66) Beulah Booth (1880-?) and Hays T. Booth (1881-?)
(67) Laurinda W. Holloway Hays.
(68) James R. Hays.
(69) Mary Agnes McMurtry
(70) James R. Rout.
(71) Mariam Hays McMurtry.
(72) James R.and Mary Hays’ sons were Henry Claude, James A. and John Boone Hays.
(73) Isaac Hays
(74) Sarah Anna Berry McMurtry.(1847-1913) . She had married her cousin James C. McMurtry and moved to California.
(75) Lemma Dell McMurtry (1871-1948)
(76) Boone Hays, her brother.
(77) Sophia S. Hays Booth (1856- after 1896)
(78) San Bernardino Co., California
(79) Robert Mitchell Berry (1836-1902) was the son of Margaret’s Uncle John Berry. The family lived in Osage Co., Missouri and Robert served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He married Sarah Jane Hull in 1865. In the 1870’s he and his brother James Tate Berry migrated to Lewis Co., Washington. He died in Eureka, Humboldt Co., California.
(80) James W. Berry (1874-?), Robert’s son.
(81) Sarah Jane Hull Berry (1843-1888)
(82) Ida Boyle Raney Berry (1849-?), the wife of Robert’s brother Samuel H. Berry. Samuel followed his brothers to Washington and in 1900 was living in Sidney, Kitsap Co., Washington.
(83) Robert Mitchel Berry, Jr. (1884-1952)
(84) Annie Bell Berry (1874-?). She was 14 years old when she wrote this letter.
(85) Annie Bell Berry. It seems that Annie wrote 2 letters to her father on the same day.
(86) From William N. Young to Margaret Hays Overstreet.
(87) Laurinda W. Holloway Hays.
(88) Jane Bolen or Bowler Yocum Young (1827- after 1890). She was the widow of Margaret’s half-brother, Jesse Yocum.
(89) William S. Bane (1862-1951?).
(90) Clayton and Martha Moore Yocum Bane.
(91) Elizabeth Ramsey Berry (1820-1895) was the widow of Robert D. Berry, Margaret’s mother’s cousin. He lived in Cass Co., Missouri.
(92) William J. Yocum (1850- after 1917), Margaret’s nephew and William Young’s step-son.
(93) Bertha Yocum (1877-?). William and his wife Prudie Elizabeth Woods also had a daughter Jesse Yocum and a son Henry Clay Yocum.
(94) John Lamar (1853-?), a neighbor of William Young in Cass Co., Missouri.
(95) Harrisonville, Cass Co., Missouri.
(96) Mrs, Mattie Y Greenlee.
(97) John Lamar (1820-?) and his wife Frances.
(98) Edward F. West and Martha Muir Yager West. Martha was the widow of Margaret’ cousin Richard Francis Yager.
(99) Lucinda Dodson Muir (1841-1920)
(100) Alexander Chapman Bryant (1826-1890) and Susannah Guthrie Moore Bryant (1833-1895)
(101) Duke S. Lipscomb (1844-?) and his family lived in Visalia, Tulare Co., California not far from Margaret.
(102) William Young (1823-?) was married to Margaret’s widowed sister-in-law, Jane Bowlar