This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hays/Hayes/Hayze/Hase/Haze; Dobbs; Bates; Cazadd; Buck; Fenner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xih.2ACEB/1474 Message Board Post: Looking for information on or descendants of brothers JOSEPH R. HAYS, b. abt 1877, TX, d. 1952 in Oregon & ROBERT H. HAYS, b. abt. 1879, prob. JOHNSON CO., TX. These two youngest children of the deceased THOMPSON B. HAYS and his widow MARYJ. went to LANE CO., OR about 1900 to work as loggers and worked in the timber industry at least through 1930. Joseph m. CLARA M. from WI & they had (1.) EDNA M. HAYS, 1900; (2) OLLIE M. HAYS (f), 1902; (3) NITA F. HAYS, 1904; (4) MABLE G. HAYS, 1907 & (5) ARTHUR C. HAYS, 1909. Then Joseph m. IVA D., b. OR, and they had (6) IRIS HAYS, b. abt. 1919. Joseph's brother Robert H. m. FLORENCE G., b. OR, and they had (1) CLIFFORD H. HAYS, b. 1905, d. 1993, OR. Clifford m. LELA R., b. KS, and they are found in Santa Paula, Ventura Co., CA in 1930. (2) LENA L. HAYS, B. 1908-D. 1917; (3) THOMAS R. HAYS, b. abt. 1914. Any help with this small branch of the WILLIAM B. (BAILEY) HAYS tree would be appreciated. (William B.Hays, NC, 1802>Howard, IL 1827>Thompson B. TX, 1850> Joseph & Robert, TX 1877-79.) Barbara Hays Cook