Susannah Boone Hays – second white woman in Kentucky?
In Caintuck Lies Within My Soul, I wrote a scene where Jemima cares for her older, pregnant sister, Suzy, after her husband beat her. Like most every incident in the book, this one is based upon fact. Susannah Boone, born 2 November 1760, suffered abuse at the hands of her husband William Hays throughout their marriage….