The Hayden family.
Photographs, land patents and family trees of the Hayden family, arranged by generation, from the oldest to the youngest. Undated pictures keep their place in the family; dates and names are as recorded. 3 photographs · 1 land patent · 1 family tree.
The homesteading generation
The men and women who took up land in the valley. From the accounts of John Hayden & Dora Ingeborg Torgersen.
View photograph ↗The Bengtson-Hayden and Jensen families at the Jensen place, Crystal, about 1934–38
Eighteen relatives of John Hayden gathered outdoors at the Jensen place in Crystal. Names as labeled on the copy at FamilySearch, several marked uncertain: Tony?, John, Martin?, Carl E., ?, Anna Jensen, Colleen?, Joanna?, Emma, Oscar, Delsa, Walt, ?, Syver Jensen, Carl Sr.?, Dora, Marjorie, Ben.
FamilySearch (uploaded by a relative)
View photograph ↗John, Dora, granddaughter Neva, and Ben Hayden
John, Dora, granddaughter Neva, and Ben Hayden
From: John Hayden & Dora Ingeborg Torgersen ↗
View photograph ↗John Hayden
Portrait on his FamilySearch person page (Johan August Bengtson Hayden, 1869–1954), as a young man.
FamilySearch (uploaded by a relative)Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to John A. B. Hayden, 1919
Federal land patent signed 11 March 1919 (BLM serial IDBL 0014605). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)Family trees
The family-tree charts drawn for the family histories, oldest generation first.
View photograph ↗Family diagram from John Hayden & Dora Ingeborg Torgersen
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: John Hayden & Dora Ingeborg Torgersen ↗Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.