Biographical Sketch of William T. Hayes, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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William T. Hayes, P. O. Lexington.  The subject of this sketch is a
native of Maryland, where he was born in Montgomery county, February
18, 1821.  His father, Abraham Hayes, deceased, moved to this county
in 1849, and died here in 1861.  His mother, Elizabeth E. Hayes, was
a daughter of Col. William Tillord, a French Huguenot, who settled on
a plantation on Chesapeake Bay and worked a large number of slaves. 
He was a colonel in the Revolutionary War and gave liberally of his
means to the cause of the colonies.  Mr. Hayes' grandfather on the
paternal side was from Wales.  He was raised and educated in his native
county, and came with his father to this county in 1849; and this has
been his home ever since.  When of age he began clerking in Georgetown,
D. C., in a dry goods store.  He then went to merchandising in Monocacy
on the Chesapeak & Ohio Canal.  When he came to this county he went to
trading.  He then purchased a farm, which he has increased to 560 acres
of splendid land, about two miles east of Lexington.  His residence 
commands a fine view of the river, and of Ray and Carroll counties.  
For several years he was engaged in freighting for Russell, Waddell &
Majors to 1862.  From then to the end of the war he was employed in
freighting and in cattle trading for himself.  He therefore took no
part in the war, though his sympathies were all with the lost cause.
After the war he returned to this county and devoted himself to farming.
He was married July 18, 1865, to Miss Alice Belle Ward, daughter of
Allen D. Ward, formerly of Mason county, Ky.  They have three children,
all sons, living: William T., Franklin Ward and Karl Wilson.  He is a 
member of the Grange.  Mrs. Hayes is a member of the Christian church.

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