In a message dated 5/9/01 12:34:37 PM !!!First Boot!!!, j.coff@verizon.net writes: << Jack Coffee Hays' parents later died of Yellow Fever then John moved to Texas, became a surveyor and later a Texas Ranger. Hays County Texas is named for him. John C. Hays was appointed as the Indian agent in Yuma, AZ and later moved to the area around Oakland CA. then laid out the township of Oakland Calif. >> Something else I thought was about the two men is Gen. John Coffee was Surveyor General of Alabama and John Coffee Hays was also a surveyor. Betty.