SAMUEL HAYS married AGNES BROADFOOT
History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821.
Pgs. 258, 259
GEN. ALEXANDER HAYS (deceased) was born in Franklin, Pa., July 8, 1819...At the time of his death he was commissioned brevet major-general...GEN HAYS’ father, SAMUEL HAYS, came from north of Ireland to America in 1795, being then a boy, and became a general, commanding Pa. troops in the War of 1812.He married AGNES BROADFOOT.Their son, GEN. ALEXANDER HAYS, married ANNIE A., daughter of JOHN B. McFADDEN, in 1846.MRS. HAYS’ ancestry is traced in a direct line from JOHN and PRISCILLA ALDEN, of the Plymouth Colony.She still survives her husband, as do their seven children: AGNES (wife of GEORGE A. GORMLY), ALDEN F., RACHEL (MRS. J. S. SULLIVAN), GILBERT A., MARTHA (MRS. R. B. BLACK), ALFRED PEARSON and JAMES McFADDEN.