1. Alex was supposedly owned a sheep rancher...but another source has him as a hog farmer...
2. Sources: Birth Certificate
Don Hayes of England
1. Cynthia was supposedly full blood Cherokee Indian.
2. She died at the rural home some 2-1/2 miles SW Stratford, Garvin, Oklahoma.
1. Buried in Section 6 between roads 5 & 6 in the McGee Cemetery, Oklahoma
1. Henry Parker came to Texas at the age of 19 in 1846...He was 23 years old when he came to Milam County
2. Henry Parker ran a store in Menard County, Texas about 1878-1880. One day he closed the store, began walking home, and was murdered on the way home.
3. Still another story has it that Nancy's brother "Bill" intended to kill Henry for putting his sister away in the State Mental Institution. So, Henry went for help to his father-in-law who lived in Abilene. Alexander gave him $60.00 and a good horse and Henry left on a cattle drive never to return.
4. Henry's younger children were kept together and raised by George Washington Parker who was only 19 years old at the time and single.
5. Henry could not write his own name...
1. It is assumed that Nancy is buried in a plot at the Austin State Mental Hospital in Austin, Texas where she died.
2. Her admission was l Jan 1876 and she died 29 Apr 1902.
3. She had NO CORRESPONDANT which means that nobody visited or wrote to her.
Mary Elizabeth Martha Ann "Mattie" PARKER
1. Mattie married twice...Names are unknown to this writer.
1. Iva's birth information taken from her delayed birth certificate: State File No. D 2075-194, SS No. 552-30-5469 issued 10-20-42..., and she later moved to 22236 Ave 154, Porterville, California 90857
1. Don Hayes says he has written to his Aunt Alta, and reports that she is a lovely lady who speaks like Lauren Bacall...She is nearly blind but has his letters read to her by her daughter Pat Blume nee Hayes...
1. Alvin was 5 feet 8 inches and known to his family as, "Shortie"...Alvin's SS No. 525-16-8286...US 38 214 908, and was in the 413th Army Anti-aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (Mobile), from 5 Nov 1942 to 5 Nov 1945...
2. He and Alma Huddy never married but a son (Donalvin Victor Hayes) was born from a relationship in England while he was serving in the Armed Forces.
3. Alvin was given an Honorable Discharge 5 Nov 1945 at Fort Bliss, Texas, after serving in Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, and receiving decoration and citation European African Middle Eastern Ribbon.
4. Lapel Button Issued, ASR Score (1 Sep 45) 81, ERC from 23 Oct 42 to 4 Nov 42 Incl.
5. After his military service, Alvin became an Oil Company Superintendant...
6. He died of Cardiac Arrest, with last address of 1600 El Toro Drive, Bakersfield, California - 93304.
7. Places of residence taken from Andrew Hayes's research: Stratford, Garvin, Oklahoma 21 Apr 1919 to 1923...Lordsburg, NM from 1923 until Nov 1942..He was in the U. S. Army from 5 Nov 1942 until 1945...Lived in Lordsburg from 1945 until 1946 and then moved to Bakersfield, California until his death in 1988.. Lordsburg, Hidalgo, NM from 1923 to Nov 1942...
8. U. S. Army 5 Nov 1942 until Nov 1945...
9. Lordsburg, NM from 1945 until 1946...
10. Bakersfield, Kern, California from 1946 until his death of 10 Jan 1988...
1. Alma Huddy never got to marry Alvin Lester but she did bear one son by him.
1. Alvin was 5 feet 8 inches and known to his family as, "Shortie"...Alvin's SS No. 525-16-8286...US 38 214 908, and was in the 413th Army Anti-aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (Mobile), from 5 Nov 1942 to 5 Nov 1945...
2. He and Alma Huddy never married but a son (Donalvin Victor Hayes) was born from a relationship in England while he was serving in the Armed Forces.
3. Alvin was given an Honorable Discharge 5 Nov 1945 at Fort Bliss, Texas, after serving in Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, and receiving decoration and citation European African Middle Eastern Ribbon.
4. Lapel Button Issued, ASR Score (1 Sep 45) 81, ERC from 23 Oct 42 to 4 Nov 42 Incl.
5. After his military service, Alvin became an Oil Company Superintendant...
6. He died of Cardiac Arrest, with last address of 1600 El Toro Drive, Bakersfield, California - 93304.
7. Places of residence taken from Andrew Hayes's research: Stratford, Garvin, Oklahoma 21 Apr 1919 to 1923...Lordsburg, NM from 1923 until Nov 1942..He was in the U. S. Army from 5 Nov 1942 until 1945...Lived in Lordsburg from 1945 until 1946 and then moved to Bakersfield, California until his death in 1988.. Lordsburg, Hidalgo, NM from 1923 to Nov 1942...
8. U. S. Army 5 Nov 1942 until Nov 1945...
9. Lordsburg, NM from 1945 until 1946...
10. Bakersfield, Kern, California from 1946 until his death of 10 Jan 1988...
1. Alvin was 5 feet 8 inches and known to his family as, "Shortie"...Alvin's SS No. 525-16-8286...US 38 214 908, and was in the 413th Army Anti-aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (Mobile), from 5 Nov 1942 to 5 Nov 1945...
2. He and Alma Huddy never married but a son (Donalvin Victor Hayes) was born from a relationship in England while he was serving in the Armed Forces.
3. Alvin was given an Honorable Discharge 5 Nov 1945 at Fort Bliss, Texas, after serving in Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, and receiving decoration and citation European African Middle Eastern Ribbon.
4. Lapel Button Issued, ASR Score (1 Sep 45) 81, ERC from 23 Oct 42 to 4 Nov 42 Incl.
5. After his military service, Alvin became an Oil Company Superintendant...
6. He died of Cardiac Arrest, with last address of 1600 El Toro Drive, Bakersfield, California - 93304.
7. Places of residence taken from Andrew Hayes's research: Stratford, Garvin, Oklahoma 21 Apr 1919 to 1923...Lordsburg, NM from 1923 until Nov 1942..He was in the U. S. Army from 5 Nov 1942 until 1945...Lived in Lordsburg from 1945 until 1946 and then moved to Bakersfield, California until his death in 1988.. Lordsburg, Hidalgo, NM from 1923 to Nov 1942...
8. U. S. Army 5 Nov 1942 until Nov 1945...
9. Lordsburg, NM from 1945 until 1946...
10. Bakersfield, Kern, California from 1946 until his death of 10 Jan 1988...
1. One of Lorraine's children had granddaughter of Alvin Lester Hayes by the name of Melissa Mitchell...
1. Alma Huddy never got to marry Alvin Lester but she did bear one son by him.