Biographical Sketch of William Z. Haymes, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William Z. Haymes was born in McMinn county, Tenn., January 13, 1833,
and is a son of Judge William Haymes, who was born and reared in Vir-
ginia, and was married in Tennessee to Rebecca Zeigler, also a native
of Virginia.  In 1839 they moved to Missouri and settled in what is 
now Webster county, and took up a claim, where he reared his family. 
He is still living, and is now seventy-nine years old.  He served as
one of the county judges during the late war, and has always been 
noted for the liberality with which he contributes to enterprises
for the public weal.  William Z. Haymes, his son, has resided in
Webster county ever since he was a small boy, and made his home with
his parents until he attained his majority, and the following year
was married to Miss Rebecca E. Jones, of North Carolina, their union
taking place March 8, 1854.  She was reared and educated in Webster
county, whither she had come with her father, William Jones, and the
year after her marriage she and Mr. Haymes located on their present
farm, which consists of 250 acres, with 150 under cultivation, well
improved with good buildings and a good bearing orchard of apple and
peach trees.  Although a Republican in politics, he has been post-
master of Conklin since 1880, and for a number of years he has been
a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he is a Master Mason.  He
and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are the 
parents of the following children:  Sarah T. (wife of J. W. Watkins),
Estella, Virginia T. (wife of Judge George A. Day), Mary R., (wife of
S. K. Barnes), Adelaide (wife of Joseph Thomas), Martha E., Walter O.,
Jacob E. and Maggie J.  William S. died in 1867, at the age of three
years.  Mr. Haymes served about six months in the State Militia, and 
in 1862 was elected first lieutenant of Company F, Seventy-fourth
Enrolled Missouri Militia, but was discharged at the end of six months
for disability, and returned home.

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