Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of WILLIAM B. HAYES.

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History of Greenbrier County 
J. R. Cole 
Lewisburg, WV 1917 
p. 216-217

WILLIAM B. HAYES.

The schools of Greenbrier are somewhat noted for their efficiency. Among 
those who have thoroughly prepared themselves for work in that profession is 
W. B. Hayes, who taught his first school near Renick almost thirty years ago. 
He was graduated from the State Normal School at Athens, W. Va., two years 
later and has been teaching in the county about ever since. He is spoken of 
in the highest terms by the present county superintendent, who was his pupil 
at one timc. No less worthy are his children, who seem not to have ever known 
what it was to be absent from school or tardy of mornings.  Mary, the eldest 
daughter, now pursuing an A. B. course at the West Virginia University, 
graduated from the high school at Lewisburg at the age of fourteen with a 
rating of 97 per cent., and at the seminary, in 1915, having a grade of 96.9' 
per cent, winning the first-honor scholarship and being graduated first in 
her class.
Miss Myrtle, the second daughter, following in the wake of her elder sister 
as to punctuality, proficiency and worthiness, has now had two years in the 
seminary, leading her classes as usual.
William S. is now ready, with as good a reputation as the others, to enter 
the high school, while Benjamin R. has never been tardy once for six years, 
and Maggie Ruth never absent or tardy.
William B. Hayes was born near Frankford, November 12, 1864, and was reared a 
farmer. He attended school during winter months, obtaining a good common 
district school education, and a first-grade certificate with which to begin 
his professional career.  In 1887 he took his graduation papers from the 
State Normal School, and from that time he has made a good reputa-tion as a 
teacher. On September 18, 1895, he married Miss Rebecca Margaret Mcclung. The 
children from that parentage are:
(I) Mary Tirzah, born July 25, 1896; Myrtle V., born January 22, 1899; 
William S., born November 6, 1901; Benjamin Raymond, born June 6, 1904; 
Maggie Ruth, born October 8, 1906. Seven years ago Mr. Hayes sold one of his 
farms and moved to Lewisburg.
Mrs. Rebecca Margaret Hayes, wife of William B. Hayes, was born January 7, 
1865. She is in direct descent from John McClung, born in Scotland. (See 
sketch of James F. McClung.)
Capt. Benjamin Hayes, the father of W. B. Hayes, died in 1900 at the age of 
sixty-four years. He was one of the prosperous and industrious farmers of 
Greenbrier county and a soldier in the late war. He entered in the 
Confederate service at the beginning of the war and served until the 
surrender of Lee, in 186?, having been in many battles, under trying 
positions many times, but he never received a wound. He was a member of 
Company B, in the Third Regiment of Wise's Legion, or the Sixtieth Virginia 
Infantry. His career, as one of the brave soldiers of the army reads like a 
romance.
Captain Hayes married Tirzah Correll, of Frankford.  She was a daughter of 
Samuel Correll, and bore him twelve children, viz.: Samuel, John Price, 
William B., Mary Frances, Margaret Susan, Laura Agnes, Acie Ellen, Hettie 
Raymond, Ida Vance, Frank Watts and one child who died in infancy.
Mr. Hayes, Sr., was a kind husband, a good father, and provided well for his 
family, especially as to the education of the children.