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Lydia <I>Butler</I> Hays

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Lydia Butler Hays

Birth
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
1865 (aged 75–76)
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Lydia Butler Hays was the daughter of Col Thomas Butler and Sarah Jane Semple. She married Stokely Donelson Hays on the same day in 1811 as her brother Dr William Edward Butler married Stokely's sister martha Thompson Hays in Nashville area. The whole family moved to Jackson, TN and then later to Memphis. After her son-in-law John Hutchings Rawlings passed away in 1859, followed shortly by her daughter Sarah Jane Hays Rawlings in 1860, Lydia was responsible for the rearing of her underage grandchildren, along with her oldest granddaughter and namesake Lydia Butler Rawlings.
Lydia Butler Hays was the daughter of Col Thomas Butler and Sarah Jane Semple. She married Stokely Donelson Hays on the same day in 1811 as her brother Dr William Edward Butler married Stokely's sister martha Thompson Hays in Nashville area. The whole family moved to Jackson, TN and then later to Memphis. After her son-in-law John Hutchings Rawlings passed away in 1859, followed shortly by her daughter Sarah Jane Hays Rawlings in 1860, Lydia was responsible for the rearing of her underage grandchildren, along with her oldest granddaughter and namesake Lydia Butler Rawlings.


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