WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - HAYES, (Mrs.) M. M.
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HAYES, (Mrs.) M. M., Franklin, TN., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

MRS. M. M. HAYES, OPELOUSAS.-Mrs. M. M. Hayes, to whom the Opelousas 
Female Institute owes its origin, was born in Franklin, Tennessee. She 
first attended the Soulé Female College at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and 
later graduated from the Tennessee Female College, 1851.  During the war 
she taught in private schools.  In 1868 she was united in marriage with 
Capt. James Hayes, whose death occurred in 1871.

After his death, in the fall of 1871, Mrs. Hayes opened a school, the
outgrowth of which is the Opelousas Female Institute.  This institution 
has steadily increased in prosperity and usefulness up to the present day.  
It has a fine local patronage, and is growing in favor away from home.  
The buildings have been enlarged and remodeled, and can accommodate, 
comfortably, a much larger number of boarders than ever before.  The 
school is chartered, and diplomas are conferred on all young ladies who 
satisfactorily complete the prescribed course of study, which is one of 
the most thorough of any institution of learning in the South.  The 
methods of instruction are of the most approved.  As to location, no more 
favorable place than Opelousas could be found.  Healthful and picturesque, 
one will scarcely find a more pleasant place.  Mrs. Hayes, although 
assisted by an efficient corps of teachers, superintends the whole school 
in person.  Her judgment is assisted from time to time by the counsel of 
the following board of advisors:  Thos. H. Lewis, President; Judge E. N. 
Cullom, J. W. Jackson, C. C. Duson, James White, C. L. Hayes, Judge J. M. 
Moore, R. S. Wilkins, John N. Ogden, Leonce Sandoz, Judge E. D  Estilette, 
Jos. Bloch.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
48-49.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.