Elias Kessler HAY
Based on information obtained from census records and descendants Mabel I. Hay and Peggy Hay McReynolds.
Niece of Hannah Wineland, Jacob Hay's wife. This record uses the spelling of her given name as it appears on her tombstone. However, the Biddle family records spell it Sinderella.
Data on given name and place of birth taken from 1880 Iowa census for his father, Elias K. Hay. Middle initial, date of birth and death obtained thru Mabel I. Hay. Birth record in Fulton Co. Courthouse shows middle initial as "L", birth place taken from these records. He was a fireman in Joplin commissioned by the State of Missouri 20th day of April, 1914. Burial place & middle name obtained from Peggy Hay McReynolds. George Hay gave the following story to his granddaughter Peggy Hay McReynolds. "Grandpa Wineland was found by the Winelands on the prairie after both his parents had been killed by either indians or robbers. The Wineland family gave the infant their name as there were no records found about who the family was. The Winelands raised the infant as their own."
See Peter Hay file for notes
John Lloyd Hay was a nephew of Samuel B. Hay who was listed as a foster son on the 1910 Kansas census. His mother, Cyndarilla Hay, died when he was 2 years old which probably explains why he went to live with Sam & Lydia. He was 10 when his father Elias married again. Birth and death information obtained thru his daughter Mabel I. Hay.
He married Cyndarilla Olive Wineland 8 Sep 1874 at Wauseon, Ohio . Cyndarilla Olive Wineland was born at Ohio Abt 1855 .
They were the parents of 3
children:
George Lamoin or Happy Hay
born 25 Dec 1878.
Mildred Bessie Hay
born 12 Jun 1888.
John Lloyd Hay, Foster Child
born 22 Dec 1890.
Elias Kessler Hay died 30 Oct 1948 at Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas .
Cyndarilla Olive Wineland died 1 Jun 1892 at Hayes Twp, Norwood, Franklin, Kansas .