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HAYES, SAMUEL F., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Fort Madison; his father, Job Hayes (of Swedish and English ancestry), was born in Pennsylvania in 1791; his father (S. Fs’., a grandfather), a Revolutionary soldier, came to America about the year 1750, and his mother, also of English birth, about the same time; her father was also a Revolutionary soldier; Mr. Job Hayes, when 16 years of age, came with his parents to Ohio, Hamilton Co., where his father was killed by the Indians. He there married his second cousin. Joanna Hayes, born in Brownsville, Penn., 1799; they were married June 29, 1820; they had ten children, six still living; Samuel F., the youngest, was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, in 1841, and, with the family in 1846, came to Lee Co., first settling at West Point; moved thence to his present place of residence, where his father died in February, 1868; his mother Nov. 25, 1873; their family settled in Lee Co., except one brother and one sister, who remained in Ohio. Jan. 1, 1866, he married Miss Elizabeth M. Marsh, daughter of Benj. J. M., whose biography appears elsewhere; she was born in this county, near Brush College, Nov. 2, 1845. He is a Democrat. Mrs. Hayes is a member of the Christian Church; his parents were members of the M. E. Church; he is a prominent member of the Red Ribbon Club at Fort Madison. On the 17th of March, 1862, he enlisted in the 17th I. V. I., Co. C; discharged on account of disability the following November. Mr. Hayes has in his possession a cane cut by his father in 1820, near New Orleans, on Jackson’s battle-field, from a crooked crab-tree.