Individual Details

Married (1) America E. Finch on 1 Dec 1846, Crittenden Co KY; (2) to Sarah A. Thelkeld on 30 Nov 1858 in Talcondas, Illinois.

Kentucky: A History of the State, 1885. J. H. Battle, William Henry Perrin. p.821
W. A. Hayden, Livingston County, was born October 19, 1826 in Trigg County, Ky. He is a son of Henly and Elizabeth Hayden, natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively. Anthony Haden, the father of Henly Hayden, was also a Virginian and an early pioneer of Bourbon County, Ky.; he afterward moved to the southern part of the State and died in Christian County, December 26, 1866 [wrong - Anthony died in 1828...]. Henly Hayden was born in Virginia, September 26, 1766. He came to Kentucky with his parents when a small boy, and lived in Christian County until early manhood, when he moved to Trigg County, and later, in 1850, moved to Caldwell County, where he died about 1867 or 1868. Elizabeth Hayden was a daughter of Mr. Shipp, a native of Virginia, and one of the early prominent business men of Hopkinsville. Mrs. Hayden was born in Bourbon County, Ky., and died in 1846, at the age of sixty years [she was a few years older or she would have been born after her mother died - not possible - and she was most likely born in Virginia, not Kentucky] The family of Henly and Elizabeth Hayden consisted of twelve children [I have discovered 10] only three of whom are living: Turner R., Mary, and W. A. The last named was reared in Christian County and at the age of nineteen commenced farming, which he carried on for four years in Kentucky, and at the end of that time went to Missouri, locating in Cape Girardeau County, where he engaged in farming and stock raising. At the end of two years, he returned to Kentucky and in 1854 purchased his present farm in Crittenden County, where he resided until 1884, at which time he moved to Salem Village, Livingston County, and retired from active life. Mr. Hayden has been twice married; the first time, November 30, 1846, to America E. Finch, of Tennessee, by whom he had three children: Robert M. Dr. John V., and William O. His second marriage occurred November 30, 1858, to Sarah A., daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Owen) Threlkeld, of Crittenden County. Mr. Hayden is a member of the Masonic fraternity in which he had taken all the degrees to the council. He belongs to the I.O.O.F. and is a prominent member of the Christian Church. John V. Hayden, M.D. second son of the above was born May 22, 1850, Pope County, Ill. At the age of twenty-three he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. F. M. Dunning, of Rosebud, Pope Co, Ill., pursuing his studies at that place for a period of two years. He entered Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, in 1876, and graduated from that institution two years later. He commenced the practice of his profession at Columbus, Ill., where he remained until 1879, moving to Salem, Ky., in the latter year, and effecting a copartnership with Dr. J. D. Threlkeld, which still continues. Dr. Hayden had been very successful in his practice. He belongs to Salem Lodge, No. 81, A.F. & A.M. and is also an Odd Fellow.

Birth	19 Oct 1826	Trigg County, Kentucky
Death	1906

Father	Hendley Haden (1776 - 1865)
Mother	Elizabeth Cave Shipp (1784 - 1846)
Sibling	Laban Haden (1805 - 1815)
Sibling	Sarah J. Haden (1807 - )
Sibling	John J. Haden (1809 - 1868)
Sibling	Mary M. "Polly" Haden (1812 - 1885)
Sibling	Turner Richardson Haden (1814 - 1890)
Sibling	Joel H. Haden (1816 - 1882)
Sibling	Caroline Haden (1818 - )
Sibling	James O. Haden (1820 - 1824)
Sibling	Nathaniel O. Haden (1823 - 1863)