George Hayes was born at Araerndorf, Bavaria, Germany.

The evidence

• “Georgce Hayes was born at Araerndorf, Bavaria, Germany, June 8, 1824. While he was yet a child his father bought a large flouring mill in Lindorf, which became the permanent home, where the twelve children, eight boys and four girls, all grew up.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 598 / book p. 1082

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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