Individual Details
Stella Mersade Hays
(28 Mar 1884 - 5 Jan 1958)
Crawford Co marriages: G. F. Vinsant, age 23 to Stella Hays, no age stated. 6 Nov 1901; G. M. Spear, MG
[Jane Lumsden has marriage to Fred Vinsant. Prichard on grave marker.]
The Family Bible lists her death as Stella Pritchard 5 Jan 1948, age 73 years. However, if she was born in 1884 and was 73, then she died in 1958 instead, which is on her grave marker.
The 1930 Census has the following:
Alix, Franklin Co AR. Hh 29
Walter E. Pritchard, age 31, married at age 24, b. AR, parents b. MO
Stella, wife, age 25 [Impossible - she was 20 years older!], married at age 17, b. AR, father b. AR, mother b.MO
1940 Census. Van Buren, Crawford, AR, ED 17-31,, Sheet 8A, Hh 181.
Living on City Heights, as was her sister-in-law, Adda Hays.
Walter "Pitchard", age 43, b. AR, Manager of the pool hall; he had lived in the rural part of Crawford Co in 1935.
Stella M., wife, age 55, b. AR
1950 Census. Van Buren, Crawford, AR, Hh 295
413 N 14th
W. E. Pritchard, 54, b. AR, Laborer, Pool Hall
Stella, Wife, 65, b. AR
Ollie Hays, mother-in-law, 86, widow, b. AR
Arkansas Death Certificate #189
Mrs. Stella Hays Pritchard died 5 Jan 1958 at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital, Van Buren, Crawford Co, AR of cerebral vascular accident (stroke). Her residence was 413 North 14th Street, Van Buren. She was born 28 Mar 1885 in Van Buren. Father - Will R. Hays; mother - Ollie Wheeler. Walter Prichard of 413 No 14th St was the informant. Buried Fairview Cemetery, Van Buren on Jan 7th.
Events
| Birth | 28 Mar 1884 | Arkansas |  | ||
| Marriage | 6 Nov 1901 | Crawford County, Arkansas - Frederick G. Vinsant | | ||
| Marriage | 24 Dec 1928 | Sebastian County, Arkansas - Walter E. Pritchard | |||
| Death | 5 Jan 1958 | Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas | | ||
| Burial | Fairview Cemetery, Van Buren County, Iowa |
Families
| Spouse | Walter E. Pritchard (1899 - ) |
| Spouse | Frederick G. Vinsant (1881 - 1922) |
| Child | Emmett W. Vinsant (1903 - 1928) |
| Father | William Richard Hays (1859 - 1937) |
| Mother | Olivia May "Ollie" Wheeler (1863 - 1959) |
| Sibling | Rosco Conklin Hays (1886 - 1961) |
| Sibling | Charles Benjiman Hays (1888 - 1891) |
| Sibling | Lulla Hays (1890 - 1890) |
| Sibling | Fred Nathaniel Hays (1891 - 1954) |
| Sibling | Eula Mae Hays (1894 - 1981) |
Endnotes
1. Compiled by Doris Stevenson West & Susan Stevenson Sevenburn, History in Headstones; A Complete Listing of all Marked Graves In Known Cemeteries of Crawford County, Arkansas. August 1970. No index. Arranged by cemetery. (Original c1970; The Press-Argus. Reprinted in paperback 1993, Old Van Buren Press; Van Buren, AR).
2. US Census 1900 AR, Crawford Co. (LDS Microfilm #1240056).
3. Family Bible of Will & Ollie Hays. Now in the possession of Carolyn Shores, daughter of Pauline Taber Shores who kept up the Bible after the death of her grandparents. Transcribed in email 30 Oct 2002.
4. Freda Hays Barnett, "Roots, Leaves, Twigs, and Bark" A Genealogy, Contemporary Accounts, and Pictures of George Fredrick Hays, Louis William Hays, Freda Laura Hays Barnett, Emmett LeRoy Hays (Self-published c1987.), p.3; Hays Genealogy.
5. US Census 1910 AR, Crawford County (LDS Microfilm #1374061), Van Buren Township; Household #342.
6. Compiled by Doris Stevenson West & Susan Stevenson Sevenburn, History in Headstones; A Complete Listing of all Marked Graves In Known Cemeteries of Crawford County, Arkansas. August 1970. No index. Arranged by cemetery. (Original c1970; The Press-Argus. Reprinted in paperback 1993, Old Van Buren Press; Van Buren, AR), Buried in Fairview Cemetery.
7. Freda Hays Barnett, "Roots, Leaves, Twigs, and Bark" A Genealogy, Contemporary Accounts, and Pictures of George Fredrick Hays, Louis William Hays, Freda Laura Hays Barnett, Emmett LeRoy Hays (Self-published c1987.), Copy of Obituary..