BORN IN: maine
DIED: 6/16/1890
AGED: 58
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
OCCUPATION: Mill man
MEMBER OF: PIONEER MASONS
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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT Masonic:
- Alfrey, James
- Childs, Luther
- Church, Thomas E
- Cook, Julia
- Cook, Samuel M
- Filkins, George E
- Finkler, Henry C
- Gillum, Annie
- Gillum, R J
- Goff, Clinton H
- Gordon, Daniel F
- Green, George
- Green, Joseph
- Irvin, E G
- Jameson, Constantine G
- Johnston, Catharine B
- Johnston, John
- Johnston, Thomas A
- Knapp, Willis C
- Koch, Fredrick A
- Koch, Maria C
- Krysher, William
- Larson, Ayel L
- Lindstrom, John
- MacPherson, John Andrew
- Mason, G T
- McLain, Jessie May
- McLain, Wallace
- Murch, Eliza Jane
- Murch, Samuel N
- Nielsen, K K
- Pfeifer, Louis
- Righetti, Pompeo
- Robinson, John L
- Rumbol, Richard F
- Smith, J E
- Snow, Joseph
- Sumner, Addison V
- Tallman, George Washington
- Waite, James M
- Watson, William J
- White, Jonathan
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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OBITUARY ---------------BENJAMIN (JACK) HAYES
Times - Gazette
June 21, 1890
Death of another well known pioneer of the county.
Benjamin H. Hayes, an old timer and one of the characters of the town, died last Monday and was buried in Union Cemetery, Wednesday afternoon with Masonic honors. He was a native of Maine and aged about 60 years. Wm Hughes remembers that in 1852 he was driving a logging team near Saucelito and that the following year he came to this county. Hayes was a tall well built man and had many friends, but did not possess the faculty of holding on to his money. Some years ago he had quite a little stake accumulated but invested in a plan to take a troupe of horseback riders back to the Centennial. The proposition fell through and Hayes lost his money. For several years past his health has not been good and his death was not unexpected. He was confined to his bed for two months and was under the care of George West as nurse. Since the first of the month, he lost rapidly in weight and at the time of his death was in an exceedingly emaciated condition. Owing to the absence of definite symptoms, Hayes’ illness WaS a source of perplexity to the physicians but an autopsy held by Dr. Barrel on Tuesday, discovered the fact that death was caused by a malignant growth from the spleen and abscess over the liver, stomach and bowels.
The funeral on Wednesday was held from the hall of San Mateo Lodge F & A Masons on Main Street and proceeded thence to Union Cemetery. Hayes was an exempt fireman and the flag over the town was raised at half-mast in his memory during the day. The pall bearers were as follows: A. Cook and Jas. Wade F & AM; Jas. Hilton and Jerome Turper, exempt firemen; Henry Offerman and C.E. Kreiss, active fireman. Altho Mr. Hayes’ given name was Benjamin, he was familiarily known as Jack and the use of the pseudonym is said to have been derived from association in former times with a noted surveyor in this state whose real name was Jack Hayes.
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