Stockley D. Hays

Stockley Donelson Hays was a 19th-century American lawyer, military officer, and nephew of U.S. president Andrew Jackson. Hays was involved in historically significant events from an early age. As a teenager he accompanied Aaron Burr down the Mississippi River during the Burr conspiracy of 1806–1807. He aided Jackson in a famous tavern brawl in Nashville, Tennessee in 1813. He served in Jackson's volunteer army as a quartermaster during the Creek War and in the larger southwestern theater of the War of 1812, and then he was made a judge advocate of the regular United States Army at the pay level of a major from 1816 to 1821.