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About Rutherford Hayes, Sr.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hayes-227
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40676423/rutherford-hayes
- Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A200546
- Service: CONNECTICUT Rank: ENSIGN
- Birth: 7-29-1756 BRANFORD CONNECTICUT
- Death: 9-25-1836 WEST BRATTLEBORO VERMONT
- Service Description: 1) LT REUBEN CHURCH, CAPT ARTEMUS HOW
Rutherford Hayes was the first, or one of the first blacksmiths of Brattleboro. He arrived in that town from New Haven, Connecticut, in 1778, at the age of twenty-one. The little settlement was most anxious for a man of his trade and in order that he might begin work as soon as possible, they organized that Yankee institution of neighborliness a " bee ". The ground was cleared of the deep snow; timber was felled; logs hewn and the shop built, and smoke was rolling from the chimney in less than four weeks after his arrival. The first American ancestor of the name was George Hayes who came from Scotland and was a settler in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1682. On his mother's side, Rutherford Hayes was descended from the Rev. John Russell, the first minister of Hadley, Massachusetts. Rutherford was born in Branford, Connecticut, in July, 1756, and in 1773, he removed to New Haven with his father, Ezekiel Hayes. He was a good workman, energetic and conscientious in his youth, and in later life was described by one of his neighbors as a jolly, honest, kindly, religious man who might well be regarded as a model by his descendants. When he had lived to the allotted age of man he became a teetotaler. It was probably from him that his descendant who became President of the United States, inherited his tee-totalism, which an antagonistic press attributed to parsimony. Rutherford Hayes' wife, Chloe Smith, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, in November, 1762, whence her parents moved to Brattleboro where she was married to Rutherford in her seventeenth year, in 1779. This girl developed a noble character and was possessed of great energy and strength of will. They had three sons and six daughters, all of whom were honored and useful members in the community in which they lived. Besides the occupation of blacksmith, Mr. Hayes was a farmer and tavern keeper. The eldest son, Deacon Russell Hayes, lived on the farm and devoted himself to his parents, and the interests of the Church
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and Academy of his native town. The second son, Rutherford, Jr., was a successful business man. He moved to Ohio, in 1817, where his son Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, was born after his father's death. The youngest son, William R. Hayes, was graduated from Yale with honors and studied law with Judge Dagget, of New Haven. It was the eldest daughter of Rutherford Hayes who married the Hon. John Noyes.
source "Historic Towns of The Connecticut River Valley" by George S. Roberts
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Rutherford Hayes, Sr.'s Timeline
| 1756 |
July 29, 1756
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Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut, Colonial America
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| 1780 |
February 8, 1780
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Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, United States
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| 1782 |
1782
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| 1784 |
May 31, 1784
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West Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, USA
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| 1787 |
January 4, 1787
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Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, United States
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| 1789 |
November 24, 1789
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Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, United States
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| 1793 |
April 11, 1793
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Windham County, Vermont, United States
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| 1804 |
December 6, 1804
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Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, United States
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| 1836 |
September 25, 1836
Age 80
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West Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, United States
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