Ellen Seymour Hayes Obit*

Danville Commercial News ~ July 22, 1924
Hayes Funeral Wednesday P.M.

*Services Will Be Held At Plymouth Church For Wife of Pioneer Minister
   Funeral services for Mrs. James Hayes will be held at the Plymouth Congregational church, Virginia avenue at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Rev. C. C. Merrill of Chicago, district superintendent of the Congregational society, officiating, assisted by Joseph W. News, pastor of Plymouth Congregational church. The burial will be at Springhill cemetery.
   Mrs. Hayes, wife of Rev. James Hayes, a retired Congregational minister died suddenly, of heart trouble at her home, 10 Virginia avenue, at 11:40 o'clock Monday morning.
   Elizabeth Seymour Hayes was born in Devonshire, England, Jan. 14, 1845. She was united in marriage to Rev. James Hayes 58 years ago July 25 and has been a resident of Danville since 1895, when her husband accepted the call to the First Congregational church of this city. She was an ardent worker in the Plymouth Congregational church and a mother to all in the community. Mrs. Hayes united with the church when a little girls in the Sunday school, and all through her eventful life, she was loyal and devoted and too often carried the heaviest part of the burden.
  Those surviving are, her husband, Rev. James Hayes, and four daughters, Mrs. Besse Owens, Mrs. Emma Michael, Mrs. Charles Watkins, and Mrs. Frank Shatterly, all of whom reside here. Her only son, William Hayes, died seven years ago, but his widow, Mrs. Maude Hayes survives. Mrs. Hayes leaves two brothers, John Osborne, of Cardonia, Ind. , Thomas Osborne, of Manitoba, Canada, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Reybould, of Cardonia, Ind. Eight grand-children and two great-grand-children also survive.