Hay, Daniel G.

Born: 1821-06-20 Illinois

Died: 1876-07-20 Carmi, Illinois

Daniel G. Hay was a mill manager, merchant, county sheriff, farmer, and military officer. In 1843, he married Elizabeth Hallam, with whom he eventually had at least six children. In 1844 he helped run a steam-powered sawmill in Grayville, Illinois. Active in the local community of White County, he was a founding member of the Sons of Temperance in Grayville in 1849 and the Christian Church of Carmi in 1851. By 1850, he owned $500 in real estate and worked as a merchant in Grayville. In the local elections of 1850, he was nominated as a Whig and won election as sheriff for White County. He later became a Republican, and served as a delegate to both the 1858 Illinois Republican Convention and the 1860 Illinois Republican Convention. By 1860, he owned $10,000 in real estate and another $5,750 in personal property. During the Civil War, he served as a sergeant in Company K of the Eighty-Seventh Illinois Infantry. He was discharged October 15, 1862.

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, White County, 14 September 1843, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; History of White County Illinois (Chicago: Inter-State, 1883), 291, 336, 554, 754; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Grayville, White County, IL, 307; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 17 June 1858, 2:4; Wayne C. Temple, “Delegates to the Illinois State Republican Nominating Convention in 1860,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 92 (Autumn 1999), 297; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), White County, IL, 269; U.S. Census Office, Ninth Census of the United States (1870), Burnt Prairie, White County, IL, 1; Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Gravestone, The Old Graveyard, Carmi, IL.