George Hayes returned to Beloit from the Mexican war.

The evidence

• “On his return to Beloit from the Mexican war, in 1849, as Judge Noggle had moved to Janesville, George Hayes made his home for awhile with T. L.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 600 / book p. 1084

  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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