Rutherford was a Blacksmith, farmer and tavern keeper. He and Chloe Smith married in 1779 in Brattleboro, Vermont. 2057

Chloe and Rutherford had 11 children, the first nine of which survived to adulthood. 2057Died In this town, on the 17th inst., of paralysis, Mrs Chloe Hayes, widow of the late Rutherford Hayes, aged 84. During a long life, the deceased has sustained its various relations with great fidelity--and, altho' the summons which called her from its duties was most sudden and unexpected to her friends, still they feel the comforting assurance it found her prepared. Mrs H. could count as her descendants, 11 children, 47 grand children and 35 great grand childred--in all 93.2054