1. Clyde had moved with family to Henrietta, Texas about 1915.
2. Richard D. Jones reports that Clyde joined the Navy in 1916 in a round about way. He was so underweight he could not pass his physical, so on the 3rd try he drank one gallon of buttermilk and consumed 12 dozen bananas and went straight to the Navy Office for a weigh-in. He passed and was shipped out. After 2-l/2 years his ship was in a large storm where he and other crew members pumped water for 30 hours, and the ship finally got back into Seattle. All the crew members were given a discharge. He left there and went to Salt Lake City to visit kin.
3. Clyde moved from Cotter, Baxter, Arkansas to Fort Worth and joined the Police Force in 1926...He lived at 2700 Primrose.
4. The Bureau of Vital Statistics shows his name as Clyde James Benson. Richard Jones reports James Clyde.
1. J. H. Hayes wrote the following letter:
Collin Co., McKinney, Texas, Feb 9, 1919 to State Comm., Austin, Tx. Dear Sir: On Jan 31, 1919 my father - S. W. Hayes fell from a railroad bridge, received injuries which caused his death Feb. 2, 1919. He was an Ex. Confederate and drew a state pension. Is there some allotment allowed for burial, and what is the proper way to make application? Yours Resp. Henry Hayes
1. 1920 Census of McKinney, Collin County, Texas
2. The first two children listed are assumed to be by a previous marriage of Ella to a Mr. Lord.
1. George may have been born in town of Carter and married in Hopewell, Arkansas, on 4 Jun 1868.
2. Sources: Bessie Hayes (Jones) writings.
Marriage License.
Mozell Rogers records & book.
1900 Indian Territory Chickasaw Nation...L 244/245(Ok).3. His political Registration Certificate No. 87 @ Stratford, Oklahoma, shows him as a "Republican" as of 21 Jul 1922.
1. Laura's birthday could be 24 Nov 1865.
2. Richard Jones reports that Laura & George were married at Hopewell, Baxter, Arkansas.
3. Her political Registration Certificate No. 86 of Precinct #9 at Stratford, Oklahoma shows her as a "Republican" as of 21 Jul 1922.
4. 7 Feb 1924...Mrs. G. W. Lamb is visiting her daughter at Shawnee this week. 1 Oct 1981 PCGSQ
1. Nehemiah was a Mason...See picture of the Masonic Fraternity of 1890. He was of the Baptist religion.
2. At the time of his death, 4 of his children had preceeded him in death.
3. He is on McCracken County, Kentucky, Tax List 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, & 1855, as per information from Bettye Byrd Hickman.
4. 1860 Census...1900 I.T. Chickasaw Nation L-244/245(OK)...Photo...Bertha Jones Records...Mozelle Cavener Rogers' books.
5. We show Nehemiah from England, but, page 132 of History of Baxter County shows him a native of Germany, who came to Arkansas from Virginia in 1856 and settled near Gassville.
1. The first mention we have in history of the Deatherage family is of one D'Aeth who came from Flanders in 1066 in the train of William the Conquerer. Afterwards he married a woman whose name was Etherage and from this was derived the present family name.
2. Three brothers came to Virginia in 1675. From these three brothers came the numerous descendants of that name living in the United States.
3. Byrd Deatherage came to North Arkansas in 1855 and settled in Johnson County and afterwards at the Wilson Spring (as it is now known) near Harrison. After some years he came to Baxter County and settled not far from the present site of Gassville. At the beginning of the Civil War he went to Missouri where two of his sons enlisted in the Union Army.
4. Byrd Deatherage married Lucinda Pollard who was of a distinguished family of Virginia. He himself was a cousin of the Byrd family of Virginia who have become famous statesmen and explorers.
5. After the Civil War, Byrd and his five sons and two daughters returned to Arkansas and settled near the site of the Colfax meeting house. This meeting house which still stands was built when he was a school director of the district. He also served as one of the three commissioners in the first county organization. The family later moved to Three Brothers. John C. Deatherage, a son of Byrd built the first school house at Three Brothers and was well known all over North Arkansas. Only two of the old stock of this branch of the Deatherage family remain in Baxter County. They are Abner, a realestate man of Cotter, and Joe A., a well known minister and lecturer on 6.Freemasonry.
6. Information from History of Baxter County...page 148.
1. William's birthday is uncertain...it may be 9 Jan 1870...Deep Creek District, P. O. Clarkesville, Habersham, Georgia.
2. Shortly after the death of baby Ray, the family moved to Fitshugh, Indian Territory, Oklahoma
3. William & Mary lost four children to fever. Three in Indian Territory and one in the "new" state of Oklahoma. The fear of fever was never forgotten by the Hayes children as they grew up. The cure for typhoid fever was unknown then.
4. Sources:...From Bessie-Floy-Bertie's personal knowledge...Richard & Alan Jones records... Pontotoc County Genealogical Society Quartlery.
5. 6 Jun 1929....Terrell Hayes & family took dinner with their son Ernest Hayes & family. PCHGS
6. Mary Bug & William T. separated shortley before his death...she said if she had known he was about to die she would have stayed with him.
7. They were owner of a dry-goods and grocery store @ McGee and later in Sulphur, Oklahoma, where he died. The address in Sulphur was 1322 West Vinita.
1. 9 May 1929....Mrs. Molly Hayes & daugher Floy spent Tuesday afternoon in the Bruce Little home.
2. Mollie died @ 3:30 P.M. at Floy's house at 1800 NW 9th, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
3. Richard reports marriage date of 4 Jan 1891, removed to Oklahoma Indian Territory by wagon that same year and settled in Davis, Indian Territory, Oklahoma.
1. Ray Hayes died as an 8-month old baby with (Typhoid) Fever.
1. Cecil died with fever...at 13 months of age.
1. William Clyde Hayes also died of fever at 16 months of age.
1. "Summers Chapel" items from Stratford Star....22 Aug 1929....Floy Hayes spent Thursday with her sister Mrs. Bessie Jones.
2. 22 May 1930...Miss Floy Hayes of Oklahoma City is visiting her parents Terrell Hayes & Family. PCGS.
3. Floy's last permanent residence was 418 East Poplar, Holdenville, Oklahoma - 74848. However, she lived with Richard Jones at Choctaw, Oklahoma for a time before her death.
4. Floy never married.
5. This writer had her dancing to his ukelele up in Oklahoma City in 1989 at the Jones reunion. What a gal!
1. Dorothy Hayes was the last child of William & Mary to die of fever.
2. She died at 18 months of age.
1. Jim is buried in Lot 4, Block 3l, Sp.8E in Rosedale Cemetery, Ada, Oklahoma.
Head stone photo...
Bessie Hayes (Jones) writings.
Dortha Lee Lewis Watson.
Richard Jones
Death Certificate
PCHGS: 26:118 Vol XXVI No. l & Vol. XXX11, No. 2.
1. Sarah died @ 6:00 AM, 213 West 6th or 527 West 8th, Ada, Oklahoma. [At Pearl's home]
1. There is some question of the correct name...It could be Lana or Lona...
1. Richard D. Jones reports that Mattie & George were married on 30 May 1890.
2. According to the obituary at the time of her sister, Laura's death on 27 Aug 1952, Mattie lived at Lincoln, Nebraska.