Jacob 'Satsch' Hayes

Jacob was a Pima Indian (from the Tucson Indian School)

Source: The Escuela campus. The Administration Building is in the center. Image from Home Mission Monthly. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015068467326&view=1up&...
The Tucson Indian School was founded in 1888, Mary Whitaker started classes for ten students in a rented adobe school building, to help the Pima and Papago tribes' native children assimilate. In 1903 newspapers reported that students had become proficient in spelling, writing, geography, and psychology. At the same time, they were being taught agriculture and other building and hand skills, while the girls were taught sewing and housekeeping skills. By this time enrollment had reached 103. The school was sponsored by the Presbyterian Church and enrolled boys and girls from the Pima and Papago tribes.

David Leighton, author, reported that in 1907 the board was able to sell this campus for profit and purchase 160 acres “about four miles south of downtown for a new campus.” The dirt road leading to the campus later gave the school address as “820 Ajo Way.”

The school was created under federal acts to indoctrinate Native American children into Western colonial society by separating them from their communities' culture and re-educating them in boarding schools. The school closed in the 1950s. After the school closed, the Tucson Citizen newspaper announced that the landmark was being razed to make room for Santa Cruz Plaza, a shopping center.

Photo of Tucson Indian School Campus in 1925 , courtesy of The Arizona Memory Project (AMP)

Chapel and other buildings on the grounds of Tucson Indian Training School, courtesy of The Arizona Memory Project (AMP)

Biography:
Born c. 1842 to unknown parents, it is not known whether Jacob ever married or had children. It appears that Jacob fought in the Civil War and was provided a pension in 1901 (presuming that Jacob S. Hayes and Jacob 'Satsch' Hayes are the same person.)

According to Carla Joinson in her book Vanished in Hiawatha, Jacob was committed on an unknown date with senile dementia (Senile dementia is an incorrect term for dementia. Dementia is characterized by a decrease in cognitive abilities or mental decline.) He died at the age of 65. Jacob's date of birth is based on this age at death in 1907 - 65 years = c. 1842.

According to the letter dated February 23. 1934 from Dr. L.L. Culp to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Jacob arrived from Sacaton, AZ, died at the asylum on October 4, 1907, and was buried in the Canton Hiawatha Cemetery, tier 4 plot 47, with an Episcopal ceremony. He died before the 1910 census so was never given a revised diagnosis.

His profile is part of the The Canton Asylum One Place Study.

Research Notes:
-The 1896 census of Pima Indians was reviewed, 22 villages, 7,870 Indians, and NO entry for James Hayes, Satsch, or Satsch Hayes were found.

United States. National Archives and Records Service, and Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, archive.org/details/indiancensusroll200unit/mode/2up. Accessed 19 Feb. 2024, pg. 243/518, census of the Pima Agency, Arizona, September 1, 1986
The names in the census were listed by Indian Names unless there was a known English Name. It is not known what the Indian name of Jacob Hayes.
-The Southern Pacific Railroad was the first railroad into Southern Arizona, arriving in Tucson in March of 1880. Dock to Poston Station, AZ; This abandoned line was the original mid-1920s routing of the Southern Pacific (via subsidiary Arizona Eastern) mainline east of Phoenix until the line was relocated to its current routing through Magma in 1964. While it shows up on maps as early as 1895, it is absent on a 1948 railroad map. The western end of the abandoned section is "in the middle of nowhere" at Dock, north of the town of Sacaton.
@ https://www.abandonedrails.com/dock-to-poston-station
-Based on the assumption that the ltr. dated February 23. 1934 from Dr. L.L. Culp to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, which states that Jacob Hayes arrived from Sacaton, AZ., it does not appear that there is or was a train depot in Sacaton, the nearest being in Casa Grande south of Sacaton, Jacob could have left from there.

Source: Cram, George Franklin. “Railroad and County Map of Arizona.” Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, 1887, www.loc.gov/resource/g4330.rr001820/?r=-0.129. Accessed 23 Feb. 2024. @ https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4330.rr001820/?r=-0.129,0.586,1.029,0...
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Sources:

1890 - "United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8S3-MQ3 : Sun Nov 12 11:31:52 UTC 2023), Entry for Jacob Hayes, 1890, pg. 791/945, line 4, 11th census of the United States Special Schedule, Township 124 R 77, Walworth, South Dakota, United States (Note at the bottom says "now suffering from Erysipelas (Erysipelas is a bacterial skin infection that affects the dermis and superficial lymph vessels.))

1901 Mar 2 - "United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NHSN-QPK : 24 March 2016), Jacob S. Hayes, 1901.

1907 Oct 4 - "South Dakota, Grave Registration Records, 1940-1941", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CY86-8QMM : Fri Dec 15 05:27:21 UTC 2023), Entry for Jacob Hayes, no image

1907 Oct 4 - Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14493786/jacob-hayes: accessed February 21, 2024), memorial page for Jacob Hayes (unknown–4 Oct 1907), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14493786, citing Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery, Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Graveaddiction (contributor 46528400).

1907 Oct 4 - Hilton, M. (Ed.). (2023, July 10). Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians Historical Marker. Historical Marker. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=183486 Photo by Ruth VanSteenwyk, July 10, 2023, courtesy of HMdb.org

Charlie Brown · Jacob Hayes 10-4-07 · Toby 3-6-06

1910 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=674, line 21 (senile dementia), Form of mental disease of those admitted since opening of Asylum