This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/3921.1 Message Board Post: Hi Sherry, This family you are inquiring about has been so elusive. I really am not sure he was a son to John Hays and Lydia Sims, but it seems possible. They married in Dandridge, Jefferson, TN June 07, 1813. Ab Hays was on the 1860 Census of Wallace, Benton County, AR. From looking at that census: he is listed as A. B. Hays 47 farmer, b. TN, p. 270, h. 282-282. His age was 47 so he was born c1813. The census taker listed his birth state as TN. His wife was Neoma and he named one of his daughters Lydia. Lydia (possibly his mother) also lived in Benton Co., AR in 1860. If he were their child, then he would be the "first born". I've found nothing on the family other than this 1860 census. What can you add that might help identify them? Thanks for posting, Janice http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janicekmc/hays_sims_notes.htm