▪ Emily Wilson Hayes Barbacci of Tallahassee, Florida.
Emily is a social studies teacher at Lawton Chiles High School in Tallahassee, where she was Teacher of the Year for Leon County and a runner-up for Teacher of the Year for the State of Florida in 2009. Her husband Jeff is a CPA and partner in the Tallahassee accounting firm of Thomas, Howell, and Ferguson. Emily and Jeff have two children:
Dominic Joseph
Anthony Louis
▪ Julia Arnn Hayes Fretwell of Richmond, Virginia.
Julia earned an M.B.A. and Master of Science in Health Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and currently is the chief administrator of Our Lady of Hope in Richmond. Her husband Matt is a Baptist minister who will earn his D.Min. from Southeastern Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, in December. Julia and Matt have one daughter: Caroline Hayes
The full text of an email that Jay sent on August 7, 2017 follows:
Good Afternoon, Roger,
Thank you so much for including me on the email/blog. I have only been able to visit my Hayes relatives in Monroe once since discovering their identify. My mother used to say that my father had an especially “sweet disposition,” and my visit to Monroe confirmed my hunch that this disposition is in the genes. Everyone there was so hospitable.
My father, Jack Irby Hayes, Sr.,
was the second son of Walter, who was the first son of William Thomas, who was
the only son of John Nelson Hayes by wife Margaret Gay. In the late
1890s, Walter left Monroe for Danville to work in the Riverside Division of Dan
River Mills where he spent his entire career. He started as a carpenter
and eventually worked in Engineering, although I believe he was “hourly” his
entire career. He and my grandmother, Nancye Lewis Williamson Hayes, had
three children—Frederick Amiss Hayes, Minnie Helen Hayes, and Jack Irby Hayes,
who was named for Stonewall Jackson Irby, one of his mother’s relatives.
The first son went by “Amiss,” which is a Virginia surname. He
disliked so much having it misspelled that he changed it himself to Amos.
The daughter went by Helen. My father went by Jack, of course.
Helen married several times but
had no children. The family lost contact with Amiss after he left home in
anger in the l920s. He had one son, Landon, now deceased, by his first
wife, and another son, David, by a second wife. We believe there are
daughters by a third or fourth wife. He evidently inherited the John
Nelson Hayes genes.
Jack Irby Hayes, Sr., was an
accountant and office manager for most of his career, ending as an auditor with
the Virginia Department of Sales and Use Taxes after serving for a few years as
the head of the Sales and Use Tax Division in Danville, Virginia. His
wife and my mother, Minnielee Conner Hayes, was a public school teacher and
guidance counselor. They were happily married for 37 years before my
father’s untimely death in 1977 at 57 years of age of a massive heart
attack.
Jack and Minnielee Hayes had
three children—Nancy Jo Hayes, who died of whooping cough in 1941 at five
months of age, Jack Irby Hayes, Jr., called since childhood “Jay,” and Walter
Eugene Hayes, called since childhood “Gene.” Jay was born August 13,
1944; Gene, on May 18, 1949. As good Presbyterians, both sons were
educated at Hampden-Sydney College. After graduation, Gene went to work
for Travelers Insurance but left after a few years to become a partner in
Moses, Hayes, and Willeford Insurance in Danville. He has been active in
the Professional Insurance Agents organization, serving as president of the PIA
of Virginia and the District of Columbia, as well as a member of the national
PIA board of directors. Jay earned his M.A. in history at VPI and his
Ph.D. in history at the University of South Carolina. He has served as a
professor of history and political science at Averett University in Danville
since 1974.
By his first wife, Donna Bryant
Hayes, Gene has three children—Robert Dorman Hayes of Tyler, Texas; Mary Lewis
(Molly) French of Charlotte, North Carolina; and Dorothy Heather (Heather)
Barrow of Fort Mill, South Carolina. Molly and husband Chris have one son
(Andrew), while Heather and husband Neal have one daughter (Avery) and twin
sons (Carter and Conner). Both husbands work for Wells Fargo in
Charlotte. For the past twelve years, Gene has been happily married
to Dixie.
Jay and Bernadine Arnn (Bunny)
Hayes have two daughters—Emily Wilson Hayes Barbacci of Tallahassee, Florida,
and Julia Arnn Hayes Fretwell of Richmond, Virginia. Emily is a social
studies teacher at Lawton Chiles High School in Tallahassee, where she was
Teacher of the Year for Leon County and a runner-up for Teacher of the Year for
the State of Florida in 2009. Husband Jeff is a CPA and partner in the
Tallahassee accounting firm of Thomas, Howell, and Ferguson. Julia
Fretwell earned an M.B.A. and Master of Science in Health Administration from
the University of Alabama at Birmingham and currently is the chief
administrator of Our Lady of Hope in Richmond. Husband Matt is a Baptist
minister who will earn his D.Min. from Southeaster Theological Seminary in Wake
Forest, North Carolina, this December Emily and Jeff have two
children—Dominic Joseph and Anthony Louis; Julia and Matt have one
daughter—Caroline Hayes.
Thanks again for all of your
work on this project. With warn regards,
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