This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAYS/HAYES/HASE/HAISE/HAYSE,HAZE, HAYZE, ETC. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xih.2ACEB/14.96.164.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Karen, In the 1860 Census, Pittsburg, Johnson Co., AR, "ARDENIA HAYS," 9 (1850), AR, is living in the midst of an extended family of Hays, Jackson and Hogan people. This family is headed by her possible g mother, DELITHA HAYS," 58 (1801), NC. The World FamilyTree lists Delitha and her unknown Hays/Hayes husband with two children, Elias C., 1829, TN, and Parthenia Jane Hays 1838, MS. (Both have descendants and lived in Crawford Co., AR.) Parthenia and a "Margerat", also b. MS, are also in this household, probably Delitha's daughters. There were likely other children, b. MS, one of whom was possibly Ardena's father. Right below Ardena is a 7 yr. old girl,"Arkansas Hays,"(1852) AR. This may be the sister you mentioned. The other people are Jacksons and Hogans. Your best bet might be to try to locate Delitha and her extended Hays/Hayes family SOMEWHERE in the 1850 Census. If you can find her, you will probably find Ardena's parents' names. I could not find Delitha in tthe 1850 Census, nor could I find any Hays/Hayes family living in Benton Co., AR in 1850. They may have arrived from MS shortly before Ardena's birth. Ardena "went missing" in 1870, but "M.C. Duggan," , 42, IRE, her husband to be, was living with his wife "Mary" and family in Sulphur Spring, Polk Co., AR. And, as you probably already know, in 1880 "Aradena and Michael Duggan," his children and theirs, are in Ozark, Polk Co., AR. Good luck, Barbara Hays Cook, Sacramento, CA