Biographies:  Jesse Andrew Mayes, 1909, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  April 2, 1909 Comrade

The Mayes homestead, in the eastern portion of Winn Parish, was the scene
recently of a great celebration, the 76th birthday anniversary of that good
citizen, J. A. Mayes.  Fully one hundred relatives, friends, and neighbors
assembled to assist in celebration in his honor.  There was singing and
speech making, and a long table in the front yard loaded with all manner of
good things to eat and the hundred present ate heartily and still there was
enough left for an hundred more.  Mr. Henry Hardtner was the orator of the
day and J. T. Hinton master of ceremonies.  Uncle Drew received numerous
presents and one in particular pleased him exceedingly, a box of natural
leaf tobacco, handed him by little Violet Urania Hardtner.

Mr. Hardtner paid a glowing tribute to the life and services of the chief
figure of the rejoicing, proclaiming the sturdy ancestry of Mr. Mayes.  He
had been married to Mary McNaughton with whom he had lived 49 years and
they had reared eight children.  He is a Master Mason.  He is a veteran of
the 31st Louisiana Regiment and fought to the close of the war.  Thus his
career had been a useful one in all the relations of life, as husband,
father, citizen, and patriot.

The Mayes family originally came from German sometime before the
Revolutionary War, and the Fullers, on his mother's side, were of
Scotch-Irish.  Thus Uncle Drew is  German-Scotch-Irish, a pretty good
mixture that is bound to make a good American citizen.