Family Photos

• Center group of the threshing crew (170 KB)
  Seated is elder John Wallace Hays. The girl is Vi Hays. The boy that looks like he's posing for Norman Rockwell is the younger John Wallace Hays.
• The Six Hays Brothers (548 KB)
  This article describes the move from Johnson County, Missouri to Prescott, Walla Walla County, Washington in 1889 by several families.
• J. W. Hays and deputies, 1911. (64 KB)
  Sheriff J.W. Hays (Franklin County, Washington) is sitting in the middle. The two other gentlemen are his deputies, Ed Dennison and Harry Dent. Don't know which is which. The calender in the background is for September, 1911.
• Far right group of the threshing crew (156 KB)
  The dark haired girl at the top is Nettie Virginia Hays. The light haired girl in front of her is Alice May Hays. The man with his hand on Nettie's shoulder may be James Sherman Hays but I'm not sure.
• Missourians to Prescott (336 KB)
  Another article about the move from Missouri to Washington
• Far left group of the threshing crew (193 KB)
  The boy at the top may be William Tavener Hays but I'm not sure. There is one other person on the far left that has been cropped from this picture by accident. I don't know who any of the others are though the two figures with whips around their necks could be father and son.
• Obituary of John Wallace Hays (387 KB)
  This article appeared in The Pasco Herald in 1932.
• Family of John Wallace Hays circa 1905 (101 KB)
  John Wallace Hays and Katherine Elizabeth Ellis on each end. Vi and Nettie in the back row, Alice and John in the front row, and William in the middle. The year this was taken was probably around 1905 based on the apparant ages of the children.
• Obituary of William Tavener Hays (107 KB)
  William Tavener Hays was the son of John Wallace Hays and Katherine Elizabeth (Katie)Ellis
• Family of Emma Virginia (Tavener) Ellis circa 1895 (120 KB)
  Second from the left is Katherine (Ellis) Hays. The two girls on the right are probably Alice and Ida but I don't know which is which. The girl on the far left is probably Robbie. The man on the left is William Silas Ellis. I believe the man on the right is Giles Ellis but I'm not sure. The woman seated in the middle is their mother, Emma Virginia (Tavener) Ellis. Their father, Robert Benjamin Ellis, died about 12 years prior to this portrait.
• Marcella (Brown) Hays and Nettie (Hays) Ziska (367 KB)
  This article appeared in the Tri-City Herald in 1979.
• Monument for Jefferson Franklin Hays (63 KB)
  This monument is in the Lost Cemetery outside of Prescott, Washington in the middle of a wheat field.
• Lewis Abel Larson and Ethyl Lucille Young (357 KB)
  This article appeared in the Tri-City Herald and includes a wedding picture as well as a 50th anniversary picture.
• Monument for Loueza (Edwards) Hays (59 KB)
  Reverse side of the same monument with Jefferson Franklin Hays.
• Letter from Lewis Larson to Ethyl Young (106 KB)
  This is a letter sent from Lewis Larson to Ethyl Young about a year before they were married.
• Photo of the Lost Cemetery, Prescott, Washington (59 KB)
  This photo is taken from where the gate once stood.
• Poem written upon the death of John Hays (36 KB)
  The author of this poem is not currently known but was clearly a good and close friend.
• Prescott threshing crew circa 1906 (367 KB)
  Center seated is the elder John Wallace Hays. Standing to his right is Lily Viola (Vi) Hays. To her right is Albert Hays. The boy to his left is the younger John Wallace Hays. The two girls in the top right corner are Nettie Virginia Hays (top) and Alice May Hays (bottom).
• Jefferson Franklin Hays and Loueza (Edwards) Hays (44 KB)
  This photo is an ambrotype, probably taken around 1855.

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