Soldier Information
Name: Lewis Hays
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Place of Birth: Nelson KY Year of Birth: 1828
Occupation: Laborer
Eyes: Dark Hair: Dark Complexion: Dark
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 9.5
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Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: August 26, 1864
Enlistment Place: Louisville
Enlistment State: KY
Compiled Military Service Record
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Congressional District: 4th
Company: H Regiment(s): 107th USCI
Mustered Where: Louisville, Kentucky
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Notes:
Hospitalized Feb 1865 and Mar-April 1865 at Pt. Of Rocks, Va with undisclosed illness.
Soldier Death Information
Died in war? Yes
Military Death Date: November 12, 1866
Military Death Location: Camp Distribution, Virginia
Military Cause of Death: Valvular disease of the heart
Death Date: November 12, 1866
Cause of Death: Heart valve disease
Death Certificate
Soldier Pension Information
No pension card found
No widow pension card found
Other Family Pension Information
Pension Card Link: View
Application Date: June 26, 1879
Application No.: 247521 Certificate No.: 234129
Pension File Information
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Pension Notes:
A second minor pension application was filed for Stephen Hays March 20, 1896 (#419521) but no certificate was granted. This may have been due to questions surrounding Hays’ paternity as his name does not appear on the Freedmen’s Bank Record signature card for Louis Hays.
Freedman’s Bank/Freedmen’s Bureau Information
Freedman’s Bank Link: View
Freedman’s Bank Notes:
The Register of Signatures of Depositors is from the datafilm roll for Washington, D.C. It appears Louis Hays opened this account while he was on active duty.
No Freedmen’s Bureau Documents found
Family Information
Mother First Name: Mother Maiden Name:
Father First Name: Father Last Name:
Siblings:
Wife #1 First Name: Maria Maiden Name:
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Children: Ellen Hays 1852
George Hays
Bazil Hays about 1851
Joseph Hays about 1849
Benjamin Hays about 1854
Susan about 1852 Hays
Allen Hays about 1858
Family Notes:
By 1866, both Louis and his wife Maria were deceased so the children were left in the care of guardians or were hired out to various farms as laborers and servants. For example, daughter Ellen marries Billy Garrison in 1871 and the witness to the union is her named guardian Priscilla Wathen. Priscilla, who also used the surname Hays, is in the 1870 census for Nelson County with another Hays child, Benjamin, in her household with brother George Wathen.
Could not find credible data to confirm identity of George Hays as Louis Hays’ son; several records exist for a George Hays but none definitively link him to Louis & Maria Hays.
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1870 Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Farm laborer
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1870 Real Estate Value: 1870 Personal Estate Value:
1870 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
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1880 Census
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1890 Census
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1900 Census
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1910 Census
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1920 Census
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Enslaver Information
Name: George Hays Location: Nelson County, Kentucky
Previous Enslaver: Thomas Hays
Enslaver Notes:
1850 Enslaver Census
1850 Census Link: View
1850 Slave Schedule Link: View
1850 Number of Enslaved: 23
1860 Enslaver Census
1860 Census Link: View
1860 Real Estate Value: $30,000 1860 Personal Estate Value: $12,000
1860 Slave Schedule Link: View
1860 Number of Enslaved: 42
1870 Enslaver Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Real Estate Value: $40,000 1870 Personal Estate Value: $4000
1880 Enslaver Census
Compensation Information
Compensation Application not found