This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hays, Hayes, Hase,Cook,Fenner,Buck,Brill,Dobbs,Bates,Bryant,Cazadd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xih.2ACEB/1499.1 Message Board Post: The following is excerpted from "Colonel Jack Hays, Texas Frontier Leader And California Builder," by James Kimmins Greer, E.P. Dutton, NY: 1952:."...John Coffee Hays was born on January 28, 1817 near Little Cedar Lick, TN, the second child of Harmon A. Hays and Elizabeth Cage. Jack's g grandfather, John Hays of Ireland, arrived in the colonies in 1740. His grandfather, Robert, was b. to Martha Thompson Hays, a Virginian, the second wife of his g grandfather. Robert grew up in the Rock Bridge section of VA. He became a lieutenant in the NC Infantry during the Revolution... In 1785 he settled in Little Cedar Lick, Wilson Co., TN and m. Jane Donelson. Colonel Robert erected Fort Haysboro, later called Haysboro. Here in the pioneer home Harmon A. Hays, sixth child of the colonel's and father of John Coffee Hays, was born....."(from Chapt. 1, "The Alamo Has Fallen).