St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Hayes, Egbert O. April 13, 1903
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, April 25, 1903, Image 4

Sheriff Egbert O. Hayes.

Ex-sheriff Egbert O. Hayes died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. O. Gordon, 
in Big Cane, on April 13, 1903, aged 74 years.

With the death of this honorable old gentleman disappears the last of the 
sheriffs of reconstruction days - those days that required iron nerves and 
resourcefulness, to betide the awful condition of the county, when scalawags 
and their negro allies swayed the destinies of our glorious Southland. With his 
death disappears one of the few braves who stood gallantly by the grand 
standard of the white man and of the then struggling Democracy.

Mr. Hayes has lived a quiet, uneventful life since his retirement from office, 
and has enjoyed good health until of late months.

He leaves three children, Mrs. R. O. Gordon, Mrs. Joe Stokes and Mrs. Somers.

He was buried in Opelousas with Masonic honors. - Crowley News.




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