Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....Hayes, Anna Elizabeth Davis February 26, 1919
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Breckinridge County News; 3/26/1919
AN APPRECIATION OF MRS. R. W. HAYES

A beautiful young woman Anna Davis of Hartford, Kentucky in June 1867 was married to
Richard W. Hayes of Breckinridge county.  She died at the home of her son, Albert W.
Hayes in Chicago, February 26, 1919.  Her five sons were with her in her last
illness, and laid her to rest beside her christly husband in the family cemetery on
the Hayes' farm, near West View in Breckinridge county.  These five boys, living in
five states; Clarence D. in St. Paul; John P. in Cleveland; Albert W. in Chicago;
Henry K. in Detroit; and R. Murray in Louisville.  Albert and John being accompanied
by their wives, with other relatives and friends laid her tenderly away to await the
resurrection call.  Two daughters, Lillian and Mary Dimple, went home before her.

Mrs. Hayes was an unusually handsome woman, very intellectual, of great vivacity, a
fine conversationalist, a woman of wide reading, conversant with the best in
literature.  She was proud of and devoted to her sons and their wives, more like an
older sister to them than a mother.

She was a loyal member of the Methodist Episcopal church, loved the house of God,
and His word was not a sealed book to her; she loved it, and God's will for her was
her will for herself.

In one of my little bevotional books I find many of her pencillings around precious
thoughts, among them this: "Trust Him Absolutely and always.  Say a continual "yes"
to your Father's will."  And let this: "Oh Lord, who art as the shadow of a great
Rock in a weary land.  Who beholdest Thy weak creatures, weary of labor, weary of
home deferred, weary of self; in Thine abundant compassion and unutterable
tenderness bring us I pray Thee, unto Thy rest."  Does not that "us" include her
every boy whom she so fondly loved?

May God hear her prayer and complete the family circle, not let it be marred by the
absence of one.  At an hour we "think not" He comes.  Be ready!

Her friend,
Tula C. Daniel






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