Individual Details

Arkansas Birth Certificate #443
Mary Hays was born 5 Jun 1917 in Van Buren Twp, Crawford Co, AR. Father: William H. Hays, age 40, b. Van Buren, Farmer. Mother: Etta West, age 37, b. Van Buren. 13th child in the family - 12 ar eliving.

Marriage Record. Johnson Co, AR
Edwin Deffenbaugh of Van Buren, age 35, to Miss Mary Hays of Van Buren, age 30, 16 Jun 1947. Virgil C. Kolb, Johnson County Judge, performed the ceremony.

1950 Census. Van Buren, Crawford Co, AR, Hh 56
208 Fayetteville St
Edwin Deffenbaugh, 38, b. AR
Mary, wife, 32, b. AR
Mary Jo Knight, dau, 10
Gary Deffenbaugh, son, b. Apr 1940

Buried National Cemetery, Ft. Smith.

Mary's picture is posted on FindAGrave - she looked a lot like my Great Aunt Minnie (Hays) Comstock. Definitely a family resemblance. Mary's was Minnie's niece.


OBITUARY - SOUTHWEST TIMES RECORD - FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
MARY M. DEFFENBAUGH, 79, of Van Buren died Tuesday, September 17, 1996, in a local nursing home. She was a retired cashier for Hays Grocery and a member of Alexander Memorial Christian Church.
Funeral will be 11:00 a.m., September 19, 1996 in Ocker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with burial at U.S. National Cemetery in Fort Smith.
She is survived by a daughter, Mary Jo Cash of Hot Springs; two sons, Gary and Daniel Deffenbaugh, both of Van Buren; a sister, Dorothy Vines of Van Buren; a brother, Hadley Hays of Jackson, Tennessee; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Drew and Matt Deffenbaugh, Brian and Floyd Arick and Howard Simmons and her nephew, Ted Hays.
The family will visit with friends from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Have atDNA match to a granson - Matthew Deffenbaugh who is a son of either Gary or Daniel Deffenbaugh.

Birth	5 Jun 1917	Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas
Marriage	16 Jun 1947	Johnson County, Arkansas - Edwin Pride Deffenbaugh
Death	17 Sep 1996	Crawford County, Arkansas
Burial	19 Sep 1996	Fort Smith Natl Cemetery,, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas

Spouse	Edwin Pride Deffenbaugh (1911 - 1984)
Child	Living
Child	Living

Spouse	Living
Child	Living

Father	William Henry "Will" Hays (1878 - 1922)
Mother	Etta West (1880 - 1951)
Sibling	Eugene Sanford Hays (1898 - 1949)
Sibling	Clara Vivian Hays (1902 - 1994)
Sibling	William Clarence "Bud" Hays (1903 - 1989)
Sibling	Bennie Russell Hays (1905 - 1989)
Sibling	John Quine Hays (1906 - 1980)
Sibling	Paul West Hays (1908 - 1994)
Sibling	Anna Ruth Hays (1909 - 1909)
Sibling	Reba Elizabeth Hays (1911 - 1935)
Sibling	Josie Blanche Hays (1912 - 1987)
Sibling	Donald Edwin Wallace Hays (1913 - 1994)
Sibling	Clinton Earl Hays (1914 - 1991)
Sibling	Champ Hadley Hays (1915 - 1998)
Sibling	Archie Theodore Hays (1919 - 1973)
Sibling	Dorothy Euldine Hays (1921 - 2001)