Individual Details
Adda Laura Seger
(17 Feb 1894 - May 1976)
1940 Census. Van Buren, Crawford, AR, ED 17-31, Sheet 8A, Hh 179. Adda Hays owned her home on City Heights. She was 46, born in Iowa - lived in the same house in 1935. She was divorced; no occupation listed
Freda [absent from the home], age 22, daughter. Has had two years of college - perhaps that's where she was.
LeeRoy [also absent], son, age 18.
After the divorce, Adda and the children moved in with her parents. She did many things to raise her family from sell Maytag washer, to county surveyor, a doughnut business, and owned the zoo and gift shop, "Jungleland", on Highway 71 north of Mountainburg for 20 years.
Events
| Birth | 17 Feb 1894 | Chillicothe, Wapello County, Iowa |  | ||
| Marriage | 5 Jun 1913 | Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas - Fred Nathaniel Hays | | ||
| Divorce | 15 Sep 1924 | Crawford County, Arkansas - Fred Nathaniel Hays | | ||
| Death | May 1976 | Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas |
Families
| Spouse | Fred Nathaniel Hays (1891 - 1954) |
| Child | George Frederick Hays (1914 - 1991) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Freda Laura Hays (1917 - 2007) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | George H. Seger (1849 - 1931) |
| Mother | Sarah Matilda "Sadie" Myrick (1853 - 1929) |
Endnotes
1. US Census 1920 AR, Crawford County (LDS Microfilm #1820059).
2. Lucy Jane (Hays) Lumsden, Research Papers from Lucy Jane (Hays) Lumsden. Email Correspondence. Personal knowledge.
3. 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.4; Hays Genealogy.
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.4; Hays Genealogy.