Pioneer Families of Missouri, Bryan and Rose, Page 844
Hays., --William Hays, of Maryland, had two children--George N. and Nellie. His wife died, and he removed to South Carolina, where he married Phoebe Jackson, by whom he had --Otho, Owen, Charlotte, John, Harmon, William, Patsey, Lavinia, and Riley. Nellie married Robert Jones, and settled in Montgomery county, Mo., in 1827. Harmon came to Missouri with Levi McMurtry and his family, when he was a boy, and rode a bull calf most of the way. He settled near Readesville, in Callaway county, in 1832, and married Minerva Scholl. Since then he has made a fortune and raised a large family of children.