ELIZABETH HAYS (Susannah' Boone; Daniels; Squire"; Georges), born 12 June, 1776, at Fort Boonesborough in Ky.; died 3 Aug. 1828. (a)
Married 1797 in Kentucky, Isaac Van Bibber (b. in Greenbriar Co., Va., 20 Oct., 1771; d. 30 Sept., 1840, in Montgomery Co., Mo.) (a) Another account gives his death as in 1836, at the home of his son-in-law, George Burt, at Williamsburg, Callaway Co., Mo., "his wife having died some time before." (b) See sketch of Van Bibber Family.
Undoubtedly Elizabeth Hays was the first white child born in Kentucky. Statements in proof of this are found in several old papers preserved by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, in its Draper Collection of Manuscripts. One of these papers is a letter to Dr. Draper from Samuel Boone, nephew of Daniel Boone and hence a first cousin of Elizabeth's mother. A reproduction of this letter is shown facing this page. Another letter, written by Mrs. Sarah Hunter, daughter of Edward Boone and niece of Daniel, contains the following statement:
"The first white child born in Kentucky was Elizabeth Hays, daughter of William Hays and granddaughter of Daniel Boone." (c)
In a statement of George Bryan of Bourbon Co., Ky., we find the following paragraph:
"I always understood Boone, that as soon as they got the houses up in 1775, he went back after his family." x x x x x x "When Boone came out, they got within four miles of the fort (Boone had put up a cabin or two at Boonesborough and then gone for his family). They were not able to reach the fort, except William Hays, whose wife was expecting to be confined. He took her on to the fort, and she was confined that night. This was the first white child born in Kentucky. This child Van Bibber afterwards married. Lived up here on the Kenawha, where Boone went and staid some time." (d)
(There were probably no white families living in Ky. prior to that.)
Elizabeth Hays as a very small child made a journey back to North Carolina with her parents, for it is recorded that when they returned to Kentucky in the spring of 1779, she was carried all the way back on horseback by George Bryan, a relative of her mother. (d)
Isaac Van Bibber was the son of Isaac Van Bibber who was killed at the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774, as Captain of his Company. It is said that Isaac, Jr., was adopted and reared by Col. Daniel Boone, and at the early age of thirteen years acted as a scout against Indians in Virginia. During the Indian War he was a Major of Militia under Col. Boone. After his marriage in 1797 he went to Missouri with Nathan Boone, son of Daniel, and settled in Darst's Bottom, St. Charles Co., Mo. In 1815 he and his wife located at Loutre Lick, now in Montgomery Co., Mo. There he built a log house which was used as a tavern or inn, and which became a popular stopping place for the many travelers who were on their way to new homes in Missouri. An account of this tavern and its history can be found in "The Missouri Historical Review," Jan., 1913, page 106. The tavern was still standing in July, 1917.
An interesting story of Isaac Van Bibber is also to be found in the
"Missouri Historical Review," which reads as follows:
"Isaac Van Bibber was very eccentric. He omitted no opportunity to declare and enforce his belief that every six thousand years there was a recurrence of the same events in the world's history and of course in the history of its inhabitants. He was active and persistent in the defence of this peculiar philosophy.
"One morning three young Kentuckians, having spent the night at the tavern and having heard Van Bibber's philosophy boldly declared, concluded to subject his professed faith to a business test. According they said, `Now, Mr. Van Bibber, you believe we will all be here again, just as we are now, six thousand years hence. To test your belief in this doctrine we propose to give you our joint note for the amount of our bills, at ten per cent interest, payable six thousand years after date.'
"For a moment Van Bibber was in an embarrassing dilemna, but soon recovering, he replied, 'You are smart young fellows all the way from old Kaintuck, and I would at once accept your note and let you keep on, but I remember that all three of you were here six thousand years ago and left without paying your bills, and now I am afraid to trust you. So you will have to shell out.'
"And 'shell out' they did." (e)
CHILDREN :-
+1031 Matilda Van Bibber, b. in Missouri.
1032 Susan Van Bibber, m. - Higginson. (f)
1033 Marcha Van Bibber.
1034 Elvira Van Bibber, tn. - Davis. (f)
+1035 Frances Van Bibber.
+1036 Erreta Van Bibber, b. 20 June, 1810.
1037 Pantha Van Bibber. (e)
1038 Isaac Van Bibber III, lived at old homestead in Loutre Lick, Mo.
1039 Ewing Van Bibber, went to California. (e).
1040 Alonzo Van Bibber.
REFERENCES:-
(a) Draper Mss. 22 C 75.
(b) Draper Mss. 6 S 312-13.
(c) Draper Mss. 22 C 60.
(d) Draper Mss. 22 C 16.
(e) "Missouri Old Settlers' Tales," in Missouri Historical Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, page 297, July, 1908.
(f) Draper Mss. S 90-91.
1038 Isaac Van Bibber III, lived at old homestead in Loutre Lick, Mo.
1039 Ewing Van Bibber, went to California. (e).
James Davis came to Missouri in 1800. After his marriage he returned to Ky., and remained until 1819, when he returned to Mo., and settled in Montgomery CO.
JEMIMA HAYS (SusannaM Boone; Daniels; Squire'; George% born 31 Aug., 1778, at Fort Boonesborough, Ky.; died 6 Nov., 1843. (a & b).
Married James Davis, son of Jonathan Davis of Philadelphia. (12)
CHILDREN :-
1041 John Davis. 1042 Elizabeth Davis. 1043 Jesse Davis. 1044 Susan Davis. 1045 Narcissa Davis. 1046 Marcha Davis. 1047 Daniel 13. Davis. 104S Unicia Davis. 1049 Volney Davis.
REFERENCES:-
(a) Draper Mss. 22 C 75.
(b) Draper Mss. 22 S 241-68.
Delinda Hays, m. 6 Apr., 1815, Lewis Jones.
References:
(1) Information supplied by Mr. Russell L. Ready, 521 East Wilshire Street,
Santa Ana, California 92707. Prodigy ID Number VSXV10A.
Telephone: 714-543-6462.BOONE HAYS (Susannah6 Boone; Daniels; Squire'; Georges), born in 1783, died in 1850, at Marysville, Calif.
Married 1st, on 3 June, 1807, in Clark Co., Ky., his cousin, Lydia Ann Scholl (No. 488), daughter of Peter Scholl and wife Mary Boone (No. 132), and 2nd, Mrs. Frazier of Memphis, Tenn. (a)
He settled in Darst's Bottom, St. Charles Co., Mo., in 1801, and in 1804 made a trip to Kentucky with furs, in company with his brother William Hays, Jr., and his cousin James Callaway. When Dodge's expedition went up the Missouri River with a number of prisoners, Boone Hays was a member of the party, having the rank of Captain. (c) In In 1818 he removed to Callaway Co., where he built the first horse-mill in that part of the country. He was a man of robust constitution and iron nerves, and was one of the famous "Forty-Niners," going to California in 1849, where he died soon afterwards. (a)
CHILDREN:-
+1050 Louisa Hays, b. 18 June, 1810.
1051 Alfred Hays, b. 5 Oct., 1814, died unm. +1052 Serrelda Hays, b. 22 Jan., 1816. +1053 Elinor Hays, b. 7 Mar., 1818. +1054 Amazon hays, b. 27 Jan., 1820. +1055 Linville Hays, b. 20 Oct., 1821. +1056 Samuel Hays, h. 12 Dee., 1824. +1057 Marium Hays, b. 12 Mar., 1826. +1058 Mary Boone Hays, h. 14 Nov., 1829. +1059 Upton Hays, b. 29 Mar , 1831.
REFERENCES:-
(a) "Pioneer Families of Missouri," Bryan and Rose. p. 343
(b) Draper Mss. 2 R 90.
(c) Draper Mss. 22 S 241-268.
Mahala Hays, m. Jonathan Davis, a brother of James Davis who m. Jemima Hays (No. 348). He was a son of Jonathan Davis of Phil-adelphi a. They had 13 children, four of whom were living in 1875.
Mahala Hays, m. Jonathan Davis
356. JOHN BOONE CALLAWAY (Jemima6 Boone; Daniels; Squire; Georges), died 1825.
Married Elizabeth Caton, daughter of Jesse Caton of Kentucky.
John B. Callaway, who was the eldest son of Flanders Callaway and Jemima Boone, was a fine scribe and excellent business man. He lived in St. Charles Co., Mo., where he was Justice of the Peace and Judge of the County Court for many years. Many of the old legal papers of St. Charles County have his name attached to them as Justice of the Peace. He had a mill and a distillery on Femme Osage Creek. (a)
CHILDREN :-
1060 Emaline Callaway, m. Hayden Boone (No. 455), a grandson of George
Boone, brother of Daniel.
1061 Verlinia Callaway, m. John Bryan, son of Henry Bryan.
+1062 James Callaway.
1063 Octavia Callaway, m. Schuyler Rice of England.
REFERENCE :-
(a) "Pioneer Families of Missouri," by Bryan and Rose, p. 208.
356. JAMES CALLAWAY (Jemiinas Boone; Daniels; Squire; Georges), born in Fayette Co., Ky., 13 Sept., 1783; killed by Indians 7 March, 1815, on Loutre Creek in Callaway Co., Mo.
Married 9 May, 1805, Nancy Howell.
He settled in St. Charles Co., Mo., and after his death Callaway County in Missouri was named for him. (a) His official military service was as follows:-
"James Callaway (Missouri) Second Lieut. Rangers, 19 July, 1813; Captain July, 1814; died 7 Mar. 1815." (b)
Captain Callaway was killed in an Indian ambuscade which took place on Prairie Fork, a branch of Loutre Creek, in present limits of Montgomery Co., Mo. He was shot in the back of the head while swimming the creek, and his body was not recovered until several days after his death. The body was wrapped in blankets and was buried on the side of the hill overlooking Loutre Creek. Several months afterward the grave was covered with stones and a flat slab laid thereon on which was engraved:
Capt. Jas. Callaway,
March 7, 1815.
The slab had been prepared by Tarleton Goe of St. Charles Co., a cousin of Capt. Callaway, and is still to be found in its original resting place, the inscription thereon being quite plain.
CHILDREN:-
1064 Thomas H. Callaway. 1065 William B. Callaway. +1066 Theresa Callaway.
REFERENCES: -
(a) "Missouri Historical Review," Vol. 1, No. 1.
(b) Gardner's Dictionary of the Army.
"Early Western Travels," by Reuben Golde Thwaites.
58 Larkin S. Callaway, m. Susan L. Howell, and had 7 ch
359. SARAH CALLAWAY (Jemimas Boone; Daniels; Squire4; Georges). Married James Barnes, Jr., son of James Barnes of Virginia. They had 22 children, sixteen of whom lived to be grown.
CHILDREN:-
1070 James Barnes.
1071 John Barnes.
1072 Larkin Barnes.
1073 William Barnes.
1074 Callaway F. Barnes.
1075 Flanders C. Barnes, m. Obedience Grigg.
1076 Lilburn Barnes.
1077 Volney Barnes.
1078 Andrew Barnes.
1079 Rhoda Barnes.
1080 Jemima Barnes.
1081 Minerva Barnes.
1082 Margaret Barnes.
1083 Hulda Barnes.
1084 Cynthia Barnes.
1085 Elizabeth Barnes.