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Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Re: 'junk' and other things...
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:38:29 EDT
In a message dated 5/9/01 12:34:37 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
writes:
<< Jack Coffee Hays' parents later died of
Yellow Fever then John moved to Texas, became a surveyor and later a Texas
Ranger. Hays County Texas is named for him. John C. Hays was appointed as
the Indian agent in Yuma, AZ and later moved to the area around Oakland CA.
then laid out the township of Oakland Calif. >>
Something else I thought was about the two men is Gen. John Coffee was
Surveyor General of Alabama and John Coffee Hays was also a surveyor. Betty.
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