MARY A. SALOMN & ALFORD B. HAYS
OBIT
WRITTEN BY : TINA EASLEY
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THE DAILY SOLIPHONE - DECEMBER 14, 1946
MARY A. SALOMN
MRS. MARY ANN SALMON DIES AT ST. LOUIS
MRS. MARY ANN SALMON , AGE 77 DIED AT 10:45 AM. FRIDAY AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS. HILLIARY BERRY IN ST. LOUIS , FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS DUE TO COMPLICATIONS . SHE WAS THE WIDOW OF THE LATE CHARLES SALMON OF PARAGOULD.
THE BODY WILL ARRIVE SUNDAY MORNING OVER THE PACIFIC RAILWAY AND WILL BE CARRIED TO THE HOM OF HER DAUGHTER MRS. J.A. MILES , OF EAST VINE.
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 2:30 MONDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE GRIFFIN MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH AND BURIAL WILL BE MADE AT LINWOOD . THE REV. R.E. WILSON , WILL OFFICIATE.
SURVING ARE FIVE DAUGHTERS , MRS. BERRY , MRS. ROY DENNINGTON AND MRS. FRED HOLSCHEN , OF ST. LOUIS , MRS. JIM BRENMEN OF PORTLAND , ORE. AND MRS. MILES OF THIS CITY , THREE SONS , GEORGE SALMON OF TROY , ILL. C.H. SALMON OF EAST ST. LOUIS AND F.C. SALMON OF WEST PALM BEACH , FLA. AND FOUR BROTHERS M.N. COLLINS , OF PADUCAH , KY. GEORE AND TOM COLLINS OF ANAHELN , CALIF. AND LAFRED COLLINS OF PORTLAND , ORE.
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SEPTEMBER 26, 1932 - PARAGOULD DAILY PRESS
ALFORD B. HAYS
FUNERAL SERVICES CONDUCTED FOR A.B. HAYS , AGED 90
PIONEER RESIDENT OF PARAGOULD SUCCUMBED TO ILLNESS LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER
SERVED ONE TERM AS MAYOR AND ABOUT 28 YEARS WAS JUSTICE OF PEACE
FUNERAL SERVICES OF ESQUIRE ALFRED BIRCHAM HAYS , AGED 90 , WHO DIED AT 4:30 SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOLLOWING A LONG ILLNESS DUE TO OLD AGE . HE DIED AT HIS HOME AT 611 WEST COURT STREET . SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT FOUR YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE AND BURIAL WAS MADE IN LINWOOD CEMETERY. THE REV. W.C. DAVIDSON OFFICIATING
. THE ACTIVE PALLBEARERS WERE : HAY MERIWETHER , DULUN WHITE , BILL MERIWHETHER , HAYS PORTER , FRED HICKSON OF THIS CITY AND JAMES McKINNEY OF MEMPHIS . THE HONARARY PALLBEARERS WERE : D.G. BEAUCHAMP , L.B. LONG , L.U. STEDMAN , CHARLES BLEDMAN , C.F. RICHARDSON , W.W. BANDY , SAM McHANEY , JOHN HICKSON , TELFAIR STEDMAN , J.T. CRAIG , JASON L. LIGHT , FRANK WRAPE AND CHANCELLOR J.M. FUTRELL.
MR. HAYS WAS A NATIVE OF HICKMAN , KY. NEAR WHERE HE WAS BORN AND REARED , WHERE HE WAS ASSOCIATED IN THE MERCANTILE BUSINESS. MR. HAYS WAS ENGAGED IN THAT BUSINESS HERE FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THEN OPERATED A HOTEL , KNOWN AS THE HAYS HOTEL , WHERE THE COTTON BELT FREIGHT DEPOT IS NOW LOCATED.
HE WAS ELECTED MAYOR OF PARAGOULD A SHORT TIME AFTER IT BECAME A FIRST CLASS CITY AND SERVED ONE TERM. HE SERVED ABOUT 28 YEARS AS JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF CLARK TOWNSHIP , IN WHICH PARAGOULD IS LOCATED , RETIRING IN 1929 AFTER SUFFERING A SLIGHT STROKE OF PARALYSIS . HIS HEALTH HAD GRADUALLY BEEN FALLING SINCE. ALTHOUGH HE HAD BEEN BEDFAST NEARLY A YEAR , HE HAD BEEN CRITICALLY ILL TWO DAYS .
MR. HAYS WAS A CONFEDERATE VETERAN SERVING FOUR YEARS DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES , INCLUDING THE BATTLES OF SHILOH , FORT DONALDSON AND LOCKOUT MOUNTAIN . FOR MANY YEARS HE WAS ACTIVE IN ATTENDANCE AT THE REUNION OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND EVENT WHICH HE FORWARD TO WITH AS MUCH INTEREST AS HIS ANNUAL HUNTIN TRIPS . HE ENLISTED AT THE AGE OF 18 AND WAS A MEMBER OF COMPANY "A" OF THE SECOND INFANTRY OF KENTUCKY , SOMETIMES REFERED TOO AS THE " ORPHAN BRIGADE" .
HE MARRIED MISS ETTA SPILLMAN AT CLINTON , KY. JUNE 25, 1865 . MRS. HAYS DIED SEPTEMBER 19 , SIX YEARS AGO . HAD MR. HAYS LIVED UNTIL HIS NEXT BIRTHDAY IN JANUARY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 91 YEARS OF AGE . HE WAS A MEMBER OF A FAMILY OF 11 CHILDREN , ONLY ONE OF WHICH P.R. HAYS OF CLINTON , KY SURVIVES.
HE IS SURVIVED BY FOUR DAUGHTERS , MRS. LILLA PORTER , MRS. R.W. MERIWETHER AND MRS. LIZZIE PORTER , ALL OF PARAGOULD AND MRS. E.B. CATHEY OF MEMPHIS TWO SONS JAMES A. HAYS OF PARAGOULD AND REV. HAYES OF WYNNE , A BROTHER P.R. HAYS OF CLINTON , KY. W2 GRANDCHILDREN ANOTHER SON HENRY HAYS DIED DECEMBER 15, 1905.