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Letters From Larry
Part 5
Posted August 31, 2002

Catherine Stall was the third child and eldest daughter of William and Susanna Firebaugh Stall. She was born in 1821 or 1822 according to the census records. Her tombstone was worn so bad I couldn't get her age at death. Sometime I will try and get back and try and get a rubbing or check local records in Illinois. Growing up in Crawford Township, Coshocton County she married when she was about 18 or 19 to John C. Hay on June 18, 1840. John was of Irish descent but was born in Pennsylvania in 1815.

The Hay family was a very prominent family in the county. John C.'s brothers owned factories and a bank in Coshocton. Also a feed mill and several small businesses from time to time including the Coshocton Iron Works and the Coshocton Axle Company which made buggy axles. After marriage they first settled in Crawford Township on some of Catherine's father's land then moved to Adams Township Coshocton County around 1847. From there they moved to Homer, Illinois around 1857.

A letter that has been preserved follows:

I kept some of the original spelling that was in the original letter. Later I'll scan the letter, right now I can't find it. I remember sealing it in plastic and putting it up so nothing would happen to it, and it's well put up. When I find it I will send a scan. This letter was sent to Daniel Stall and was to be read to the mother Susan Stall (William was dead by now) and also to Dan's brother Anthony.


This is Catherine's stone in the Patterson Cemetery at Homer Illinois.

John C. Hay lived until 1890. He married again and had children from the second wife. I can't find my notes on this second marriage or second wife's name, but if any descendant of John and Catherine wants it, I will dig for it. I will do this family a little different and post all I have on it, including children and grandchildren. At this time I have yet to make contact with any descendants from this branch of the family but I know they are out there.

Raymond Hay of Coshocton was working on the Hay family when he died in 1984. Most of what I have on the children are from his notes. He didn't live long enough to finish his work so it is incomplete.

 

        1. Elizabeth Hay, born abt. 1841or1842
        2. William Hay, born 1844
        3. Susanna Hay, born 1846
        4. John T. Hay, born 1849
        5. Abraham Hay, born 1851 died 1924 in Pasadena, California
            He married Mary Belinda Buckele
                1. John Howard Hay, born 1874
                2. Anne Evelyn Hay, born 1876
                3. Mary Cecil Hay, born 1878
                4. Etta Cecil Hay, born 1886
                5. Lillia May Hay, born 1889, married John W. Harbeson
                6. Edna Gretchen Hay, born 1891
                7. Mary Elizabeth Hay, born 1896, died 1896
                8. Abraham Jones Hay, born 1898 married Gretta Hazel Gramse
                        1. Letitia Hay, born 1924
                        2. Charlene Hay, born 1927
                        3. Abe Gramse Hay, born 1932
        6. Daniel Hay, born 1854 died 1940 in Spokane, Washington
                1. May Hay, married E.E.Norse, Spokane, Washington
        7. Henry Hay, born 1857, died 1935, married Amanda Tibbets
        8. and 9. Twin boys, born and died 1860

This is the gravestone of John C. Hay and his second wife in the Homer Illinois Cemetery.

This is the William (1844-1865) Hay tombstone. I checked and as far as I can tell he was not in the Civil War. There was four William Hay names listed as from Illinois in the war, but all four that I found was not this William. Also since he died just after the war he should have had a government issued stone, and a flag on the grave.

In the front row, first stone on left is a child of John C. Hay and his second wife, next is the stone of the two twin infant boys, then Catherine Stall Hay, then William Hay on the right. Patterson Cemetery, near Homer Illinois.

Hopefully someone from this family can come aboard and finish this family tree. This is all I have on this branch except possibly one picture. I'll scan it later when I send the unnamed pictures in a later installment.

Next... Elizbeth Stall Swigert

 

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