"Samuel Hays came to the White House at age 23 at the start of his uncle's administration to act as his secretary, and was, according to the "Papers of Andrew Jackson," one of the principal characters in Jackson's first year in office. By all accounts Hays was quite a gay blade; he ran up an enormous haberdasher's bill in Washington, which his uncle paid, and attended parties, flirting with eligible young ladies of society. Jackson's letters show him planning to send Hays to school, fretting over Hays' lack of serious ambition, but also intervening to arrange Hays' marriage to blueblood Frances Middleton, of both the Arthur Middleton and Thomas Pinckney families. After he left Washington and returned to West Tennessee, Hays was seen as the President's protégé, and became a target for the President's enemies. In 1839, he was brought up on charges of some kind, but was vindicated. He ended up as a prominent business and political figure, and a delegate of Tennessee to the Southwestern Convention of 1845, called to set policy for railroad expansion into the region. He was a long-time friend of Jefferson Davis, who it is said offered Hays a position as a Confederate general; and though he declined, he outfitted a company for the Confederate service." http://www.raabcollection.com/andrew-jackson-autograph/andrew-jackson-signed-motto-andrew-jackson-truth-mighty-and-will-always#sthash.jihHvoMB.dpuf
(~Contributed by Sandi H. 48466302, Oct. 2014~)

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Saml J Hays (Samuel Jackson Hays)
Age: 45
Birth Year: abt 1805
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1850: District 15, Madison, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Family Number: 141
Household Members:
Saml J Hays 45
Frances Hays 39
Andrew J Hays 19
Rachel J Hays 17
James H Hays 15
Fanny M Hays 13
Elizabeth L Hays 11
Robert Hays 9
Middleton Hays 7
Martha A C Hays 2

NOTE: "Jane Donelson, widow of Robert Hays
and sister of Rachel, wife of President
Andrew Jackson, died February 1, 1834 in
Jackson at the age of 68. (NATIONAL BANNER
and DAILY ADVERTISER, Nashville, Tennessee,
February 13, 1834. She likely lies buried
near her son, (Stokely) in this burial area
along with several other relatives."

(http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/
cemeteries/riverside/mrc7-11.htm)