Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, McLean Co.

JAMES M. HAY, McLean County, was born in Muhlenburgh [sic] County, 
September 17, 1842, and is the eldest of four children of K. G. and 
Sally A. (Eads) Hay, both natives of Muhlenburgh County; his grandfather, 
Kinnard Hay, was a native of North Carolina, and his grandfather, Barnett 
Eads, of Virginia.  James M. Hay received a common school education, and 
lived with his parents until grown.  On July 16, 1863, he enlisted in 
Company D, Thirty-fifth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, and was in all the 
fights and skirmishes in which the regiment was engaged after he joined 
it.  He was discharged in 1864, at Louisville, and returned home and 
engaged in farming.  In 1867, he located on seventy-five acres of 
timber-land, which he has improved, and to which he has added, until he 
now owns 100 acres of excellent land.  He was married February 22, 1866, 
to Amanda J. Ford, a daughter of Walter H. and Sallie E. (Chapman) Ford, 
natives of Virginia.  They have had eight children, seven of whom are 
living, viz.: Samuel W., Sallie E., Charles F., Walter K., Volney B., 
Archie D., Jeanetta, Maud M. (deceased).  Mr. Hay was a master of the 
Grange and is a Democrat in politics.

Hay Eads Ford Chapman
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Muhlenberg-KY NC VA

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