MARSHALL COUNTY, TN -GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Valentine O. Hayes
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VALENTINE O. HAYES, dry goods merchant, of Lewisburg, was one of seven
children born to Hiram and Sallie (Webb) Hayes.  The father was born in
North Carolina and when young came to this State, and after marriage
settled in this county.  About 1856 he moved to Missouri, where
the mother died,  He was a blacksmith and a wood workman by trade.  Our
subject was born June 20, 1854, in Marshall County.  After the death of his
father, at the age of eight, he was bound out to a farmer, who gave him but
little schooling though he furnished him abundance of work.
On reaching manhood he came to Lewisburg and entered the store of
Montgomery Bro. As salesman.  At the end of four years he opened a store of
general merchandise  In 1874 he built that commodious brick building where
he now conducts his business.  For a short time he ran a
hardware and a dry goods store, but having sold the former he made a
specialty of the latter.  In 1881 he wed Zadie London, by whom he has two
children.  Mr. Hayes is a Republican in politics, and he and wife are
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He is accounted one of
Lewisburg's most enterprising citizens, and has erected three of the best
buildings in the town.  His building,, where he is engaged in business, was
the first business brick building erected in Lewisburg.

Surnames: Hayes, London, Webb,
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."