Alma and Annselina Hayes
By Ruth Adams in History of Bear Lake Pioneers published in 1968
Alma Hayes was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, 11 Jan 1846, the son of Thomas Hayes and Polly Hess from Massachusetts. His parents both died at Mt. Pisgah when Alma was very young. Their deaths occurred through the persecutions which the Mormon people received. Alma came with strangers to Utah in one of the earliest battalions. He located with them in Farmington when it was in its first crude stage of settlement.
Alma Hayes knew well how the early pioneers persevered in their labors of founding a state under most unpromising conditions, and he came to manhood well fitted to contest with nature and to conquer in the fight. At an early age he was taught to work and was employed as a herder and as a laborer on the farm until he was eighteen years of age. Then came the troublous times of the Blackhawk War in 1865 and he joined the ranks of the forces battling against the Indians.
After the war, he turned his attention to ranching and on 9 Nov 1867, he was united in marriage with Annselina Thomas, born 12 Dec 1851 in Missouri and a daughter of Robert Thomas and Catherine Lewis.
Children of Alma Hayes and Annselina Thomas
1. Mary Elizabeth Hayes b-13 Nov 1868 in
Farmington Utah; d-13 Mar 1908 in Freedom Wyoming. br-Freedom Cemetery; m-Albert
Freemont Rolph
2. John Riley Hayes b-30 Oct 1879 in Farmington; d-18 Mar 1948 in Soda Springs
Idaho; br-Georgetown Cemetery
3. Alma Hess Hayes b-28 Sep 1873 in Farmington; d-17 May 1947 in Montpelier
4. Catherine Hayes b-23 Apr 1877 in Georgetown Idaho; d-16 July 1940 in
Montpelier; King
5. Alice Louise Hayes b-11 Sep 1880 in Georgetown; d-12 Nov 1969 in Weiser
Idaho; br-Hillcrest Cemetery; m-Robert Weber
6. Margaret Hayes b-19 Jan 1882 in Georgetown; d-12 Mar 1969 in Soda Springs; br-Georgetown
Cemetery; m-Wilford King
7. Robert Hayes b-16 July 1885 in Georgetown
8. Edith May Hayes b-29 July 1887 in Georgetown; d-7 Jan 1895 in Georgetown; br-Georgetown
Cemetery
9. Harriet Ann Hayes b-12 Mar 1889 in Georgetown; d-27 Sep 1966 in Moreland
Idaho; br-Moreland Cemetery; m-Winter Glee Erb
10. Esther Hayes b-23 May 1891 in Georgetown
11. David W Hayes 19 Feb 1894 in Georgetown
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After his marriage, Alma established his home in Morgan County, Utah and there resided for about six years. Then in 1874 he came to Georgetown and was so pleased with the country that he was determined that this should be his home. He had no cause for regret in that choice of his location or in his financial success. He was prominent in all public affairs. He served as water master for a long term of years and held many offices in the church. Alma Hayes married Louisa Jane Sheffield 1 July 1872 at Salt Lake City, daughter of Thomas Sheffield and Jane Fowler.
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Children of Alma Hayes and Louisa Jane
Sheffield
1. Joseph Smith Hayes b-6 Mar 1874 in Morgan Co Utah; d-26 Mar 1909 in
Georgetown; br-Georgetown Cemetery; m-Elizabeth Leah
2. Walter Henry Hayes b-8 Dec 1875 in Georgetown; d-16 Sep 1889 in Georgetown;
br-Georgetown Cemetery
3. Mary Jane "Polly" Hayes b-10 Sep 1877 in Georgetown; d-17 Mar 1953 in
Georgetown; br-Georgetown Cemetery; m-William Henry Hoff
4. Thomas Hayes b-18 Apr 1879 in Georgetown; d-18 May 1961 in Soda Springs; br-Fairview
Cemetery; m-Margaret C
5. Annselina Hayes b-1 July 1881 in Georgetown; d-12 Aug 1883 in Georgetown; br-Georgetown
Cemetery
6. Zina Ruth Hayes b-16 July 1883 in Georgetown
7. Horace Alma Hayes b-13 Apr 1886 in Georgetown; d-29 Dec 1943; br-Georgetown
Cemetery
8. Wilford Hayes
9. Hattie Hayes b-11 Nov 1892 in Georgetown
10. Susan Lucy Hayes b-1 Mar 1895 in Georgetown
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He was bishop of the Georgetown ward for fourteen years. He was greatly loved and respected by all who knew him and was only released to move to Soda Springs. There he was patriarch of the stake, giving many blessings to members of his family as well as others of that stake. he was holding that position at the time of his death on 5 Apr 1935.