Individual Details
Rosco Conklin Hays
(18 Mar 1886 - 24 Jul 1961)
1910 Census. Still at home with parents. Listed as a Merchant.
1920 Census. Van Buren Township. Rosco lived at 574 Fayetteville Street. Listed as grocer, own store.
12 Sep 1918 World War I Draft Registration
Roscoe Conklin Hays of Witte, Poteau, LeFlore Co, OK was age 32, born 18 Mar 1886. He was a telegraph operator for the Frisco Railway in Poeau. Mrs. Ruth Conklin, his wife, was his nearest relative. Short, stout, brown eyes, dark hair.
1930 Census. Burnett, Pottawatomie Co OK, Hh 157
Rosco Hays, age 37, married at age 23, b. AR, father b. AR, mother b. Kansas
Ruth, wife, age 34, married at age 21, b. AR, parents b. U.S.
Hale, son, age 13, b. AR. Mary, dau, age 9, b. AR. Judy, dau, age 2 years, 1 month, b. AR.
Two boarders also lived with the family.
1940 Census. Ward 1, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co, OK, Hh 512
1505 N. 39th St. - they lived in Pauls Valley, Garvin Co, OK in 1935
Roscoe C. Hays, 53, b. AR as was all the family, Owner, Trucking Co
Ruth, wife 44
H. W., son, 23, Assistant Manager, Trucking Co
Mary Olivia, dau, 19
Judy May, dau, 14
Eula Berry, Maid, Neg. 53, divorced, b. TX
1942 World War II Draft Registration
Roscoe Conklin Hays of 1505 NW 39th, Oklahoma City, OK was 56, born 18 Mar 1886 in Van Buren, AR. Mrs. R. C. Hays of the same address would always know his address. His was self-employed, Livestock truck line, with Livestock Exchange Building, Oklahoma City.
Obituary stated he had moved to Oklahoma City in 1937. He was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge, Van Buren.
Buried Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, OK. There is a masonic emblem on his grave marker.
Events
| Birth | 18 Mar 1886 | Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas |  | ||
| Marriage | 30 Jan 1916 | Crawford County, Arkansas - Ruth Emma Waters | | ||
| Death | 24 Jul 1961 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma | |
Families
| Spouse | Ruth Emma Waters (1896 - ) |
| Child | Hale Waters Hays (1916 - 2011) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | William Richard Hays (1859 - 1937) |
| Mother | Olivia May "Ollie" Wheeler (1863 - 1959) |
| Sibling | Stella Mersade Hays (1884 - 1958) |
| 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. Lucy Jane (Hays) Lumsden, Research Papers from Lucy Jane (Hays) Lumsden. Email Correspondence. Personal knowledge.
2. Lucy Jane (Hays) Lumsden, Research Papers from Lucy Jane (Hays) Lumsden. Email Correspondence. Personal knowledge.
3. US Census 1900 AR, Crawford Co. (LDS Microfilm #1240056).
4. 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.
5. Lucy Jane (Hays) Lumsden, Research Papers from Lucy Jane (Hays) Lumsden. Email Correspondence. Personal knowledge.
6. 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.7; Hays Genealogy.
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.), p.7; Hays Genealogy.