Bio:  Duke H. Hayes, Red River Parish
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Feb 2000.

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Duke H. Hayes, notary public, of Coushatta, La., was born in Clarke County,
Ga., January 8, 1819, to George and Mary (Hamilton) Hayes, who were
Virginians, the father having been born in 1770, and died in Thomas County,
Ga., in 1840, the mother's birth having occurred in 1796, and her death in
Thomas County, Ga., in 1871.  Duke H. Hayes is next to the youngest of eight
children born to his parents, only two of whom survive.  He was a resident of
Georgia from the time of his birth until 1860, when he settled in Bienville
Parish, La., and in December, 1868, came to Coushatta.  In 1871 he was
appointed clerk of the court, and served about two years, since which time he
has been deputy in some one of the parish offices.  He has been notary public
since 1873.  He was married in Macon, Ga., in 1839 to Miss Sarah Ann Munson, a
native of South Carolina, who died in Bienville Parish in 1867, leaving,
besides her sorrowing husband, seven children to mourn their loss: Mary Ann,
John R., Theodocia E., Anna C., Ella A., Bell H., and Sarah D.  Mr. Hayes was
married, a second time, in 1869, to Mrs. Eliza Cagle (mother of Dr. W. E.
Cagle, dentist, who resides in Coushatta, La.), who was born in Tennessee in
1830, and to them two children have been born: Eudora D., and Emmie M.  In
politics Mr. Hayes was formerly a Whig, but since the war has been a strong
Democrat.  Hi is now secretary of Silent Brotherhood Lodge No. 146, A. F & A.
M., and for his years (sixteen) of faithful service, he was presented by his
lodge with a handsome gold-headed cane in 1887.  He is also a member of
Coushatta Chapter No. 35, R. A. M., of which he has been secretary for fifteen
years.  From 1880 to 1886 he was the private secretary of Judge L. B. Watkins;
and from 1886 to the present time has been in the office of John C. Pugh.  He
and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he has
been superintendent of the Sunday-school for eighteen years.

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