Mary Ann Hayes ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: L653-2FN.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in District 130, White, IN. ³ The 1850 census recorded in District 130 in White County: John Gay, farmer, 37, living with wife Elizabeth, 28; William H., 7; Ann S., 5; Elmina, 3; and Eliza Jane, 3 months. John was born in Ohio, the others in Indiana. His real estate was worth $3500.
His neighbor is James Gay, farmer, 41, living with his mother, Mary Ann, 67, and Joseph Gay, farmer, 32. The men were born in Ohio and their mother in Pennsylvania. James' real estate was worth $4030 and Joseph's $3000.

2. Census in 1860 in Prairie Township, White, IN. ⁴ The 1860 census recorded Joseph Gary [sic, as indexed in census due to poor handwriting of Gay], farmer, 45, born in Ohio, living with wife Mary E., 26, Virginia; mother Mary A., 77, Pennsylvania; and children born in Indiana: Isabella, 8,; Mary A., 4; Esmaranda, 3 months. The post office was Brookston.

Mary married William Gay Sr. (William Gay Sr. was born in 1781 in La Plata, Charles, MD,⁵ died in Aug 1840 in , White, IN ⁵ and was buried in Battle Ground: Pretty Prairie Cemetery, Tippecanoe, IN ⁵.)