Stokely Donelson Hays-- Part 5: A Big Man

From Find-A-Grave

One source called him "the finest looking man in Jackson (Tn) in the early days of the city."  Another said he "Possessed much personal magnetism."

He was described as over six feet tall and weighed 200 pounds.

Stokely Hays died of bilious fever after returning home from Clinton, Mississippi, where he was tending to his business as a land registrar

Burial is at Riverside Cemetery in Jackson, Tennessee.

His gravestone reads:  S.D. Hays, Qtr.Mr. Gen. Jackson's Div., Tenn Vols., Creek War War of 1812, Dec. 1788, Sept. 8, 1831.