Richard C. Hayes Sr.

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Biography

Private 1st Class Richard C. Hayes Sr. served in the United States Army in World War I
Service started: July 1918
Unit(s):
Service ended: September 1919

Richard was born in 1890 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He was the son of Thomas Hayes and Isabel Carbrey

As a young man, he was recruited to try out for the Boston Red Sox. His mother felt professional baseball was not a respectable occupation and refused to allow it. Richard graduated high school from the La Salle Academy in Providence, Rhode Island.^[1] (For further info on the school see [11])

He went to work as an agent for the Gulf Refining Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, when he was drafted to serve in the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) during World War I.

“Safe Overseas,” ^[2]

“Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hayes of 149 West avenue received word this morning of the safe arrival of their son, Richard C. Hayes, Overseas. The young man was formerly agent of the Gulf Refining Company, Springfield, Mass. He is now connected with the typists’ and clerks’ organization of the American expeditionary forces.”

Richard served as Private, later Private First Class in the U.S. Expeditionary Force's Clerks and Typists Corps in Bourges, France, from August 1918 to July 1919. He returned from France with a case of Influenza. Two articles in his home newspaper show how terrifying and rapid the Influenza pandemic could be.

[8 August 1919] “Back from France – Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hayes, 149 West avenue, have received a telegram from their son, Richard C. Hayes, stating that he has arrived safely in New York on the transport Wilhelmina. Priv. Hayes was overseas for 11 months and was attached to the central records office at Bourges, France.”^[3]

[15 August 1919] ”Priv. Richard Hayes Ill with Pneumonia”^[4]

“Richard Hayes, son of Thomas Hayes of 149 West Avenue, is confined to the army hospital at Camp Merritt, N.J. with tubercular pneumonia. Last Tuesday afternoon a telegram was received by Mr. Hayes informing him that his son had become suddenly ill Tuesday morning.

“A party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, Miss Katherine Hayes and Katharine Dolan left the city on Tuesday afternoon for Camp Merritt and upon arriving were informed that the soldier was suddenly taken down with pneumonia. His condition today is reported as being a little more favorable, although he is still on the danger list.

“Mr. Hayes should have been discharged last Monday evening, but, due to some misunderstanding, he was held at camp. On Tuesday , he left some of his friends after informing them that he intended to do a little typewriting, and the next thing heard from him an hour later was that he was seriously ill.

“The parents of the young man will remain the Brooklyn until his recovery. Mr. Hayes returned from France on Aug. 6, following one year’s active service in the army.”

After his recuperation, Richard went to work for his brother, Thomas's company in December 1919.^[5] As of 1923, he was supervising the company's menhaden fishing plants in Lewes, Delaware.^[6][7]

He managed the plant in Delaware during the summer and worked in the firm's New York City office in the off-season. He was eventually made president of the firm, which was later known as Consolidated Fisheries. “By 1938, the Consolidated Fisheries Company of Lewes was the largest processing plant in the United States.”^[8]

In 1925, Richard married Anna Haller, who was a bookkeeper in his company.^[9] The couple initially lived in Bronx, New York, and later moved to Brooklyn. They had three children:

1. a daughter who died at birth or was stillborn (1925)
2. Thomas Francis Hayes (1926-1974)
3. Richard Charles Hayes, Jr., (1931-1996)

Richard passed away in Brooklyn from complications of Type 2 Diabetes in 1959.

Obituary

Richard C. Hayes

A Solemn Requiem Mass will be offered for Richard C. Hayes, 69, former president of the Consolidated Fisheries of Lewes, Friday, at 9:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Refuge Church, Foster and Ocean Avenues, Brooklyn. Mr Hayes died Monday at Brooklyn Hospital, Brooklyn.

Friends may call at the Gallagher Funeral Home, 2549 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, today and tomorrow from 1 to 10 p.m. Burial will be in St. John’s Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens County.

Mr. Hayes’ brother, Thomas H. Hayes, former secretary-treasurer of the menhaden processing plant, died last Thursday in Philadelphia.

Mr. Hayes lived at 2215 Newkirk Avenue, Brooklyn, for 40 years. He was born in Providence, R.I. He had been a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Lewes.

Mr. Hayes was a veteran of World War I. He attended LaSalle Academy, Providence. His wife, Mrs. Anna H. Hayes, died in 1952. Surviving are two sons, Thomas F., and Richard C., Jr., both of Brooklyn; a brother, John A., also of Brooklyn, and a sister, Mrs. Mary O’Neill.^[10]

Research Notes

The War Untold [12] profiles a different soldier named Roland Anderson who served with Richard in Bourges and who died of influenza there. This site provides old photographs of the site and details on the unit, the service they provided, and the influenza outbreak there. It is a fascinating glimpse of the little known AEF Central Records Office.

Sources

1. ↑ June 1908 Graduation Program for La Salle Academy. Original copy in possession of AM Hayes.
2. ↑ The Evening Times (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)> Tue, 10 Sept 1918> page 2. Database and images available at the Pawtucket Library [1]
3. ↑ ”Back from France” in Evening Times (Pawtucket, Rhode Island): 8 Aug 1919, Fri., [2] accessed 17 Sept 2021. Available at NewsBank Newspapers through the Pawtucket Public Library [3]
4. ↑ Evening Times (Pawtucket, Rhode Island): 15 Aug 1919, Fri., pg 19 [4] accessed 17 Sept 2021. Available at NewsBank Newspapers through the Pawtucket Public Library [5]
5. ↑ “Sends Letters to Creditors” article in The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), Thu, 04 Dec 1919> page 13. Database and images at Newspapers.com [6]:
   “The company entered into an agreement with Thomas H. Hayes, of New York, whereby he agreed to take an assignment of all claims against the company up to the amount of $73,000…Mr. Hayes is president of the Fisheries Products Company and is the senior member of the firm of Hayes & Anderton, New York… The business of the company now is being under his supervision by his brother, Richard C. Hayes…”
6. ↑ "'The Evening Journal (Wilmington, DE), Sat 12 May 1923, page 11, column 4. Database and images at Newspapers.com [7]:
   “Richard C. Hayes, of New York city, a brother of Thomas H. Hayes, of the firm of Hayes and Anderton, is here to supervise the two fishing plants which will be operated this season after lying idle for two seasons. A number of the company’s fishing steamers are expected here the last of the month when the menhaden season will begin.”
7. ↑ “New Manager for Lewes Fish Plant” in The Evening Journal (Wilmington, Delaware)> Friday, 20 July 1923. Database and Images at Newspapers.com [8]
   ”LEWES, July 20 – Clark T. Welden who has been general manager at the fish plants of Hayes and Anderton for the past three years has resigned and Richard C. Hayes will fill the vacancy. The menhaden boats are making good catches of fish daily and this season promises to be a good one.” </br>
8. ↑ State of Delaware Historical Markers Program: Menhaden Fishing Industry, SC-214 [9]
9. ↑ Marriage : "Historical Vital Records of NYC"
   New York City Municipal Archives
   https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/9150864 (accessed 10 February 2024)
   Marriage 14 January 1925 in Bronx, City of New York, New York. Richard Hayes, resident of Lewes, Del., age 34, single; birthplace Pawtucket, R.I.; son of Thomas (Hayes) and Isabel Carbrey, and Anna Haller, resident of 2614 3rd Avenue, age 31, single, birthplace NYC; daughter of Thomas (Haller) and Frances Stepany. Witnesses: Thos. H. Hayes and Emma Stater.
10. ↑ Obituary for Richard C. Hayes in The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware), 09 Dec 1959, Wed, page 27. Database and images available at Newspapers.com [10] accessed 6 Aug 2021.

• Records of births, marriages and deaths of North Providence and Pawtucket [Rhode Island], 1748-1885; indexes to births, marriages and deaths, 1728-1914: Index to births, North Providence and Pawtucket 1728-1910, image 334 of 805. Family Search [13] accessed 29 May 2019.

Hayes, Richard C.

date of birth: 1 Aug 1890

parents: Thomas & Isabelle (Hayes)

Volume 3, page 78

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch ([14] : accessed 29 May 2019), household of Thomas Hayes, District 1 Pawtucket city Ward 4, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 156, sheet 17B, family 416, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,511.

Richard C Hayes; Son; Male; age: 9; born in Rhode Island Aug 1890; father born in RI, mother born in Massachusetts

• "United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940," database, FamilySearch ([15] : 5 December 2018), Richard Charles Hayes, 22 Oct 1919; citing Military Service, NARA microfilm publication 76193916 (St. Louis: National Archives and Records Administration, 1985), various roll numbers.

• "US Army WWI Transport Service, Passenger Lists," Source: The National Archives. Available at Fold3.com [16] accessed 26 Nov 2019. 17-020

Ship: U.S.S. Chicago

Departure: New York 23 Aug 1918

"Clerks and Typists Detachment," 830K

Name: Hayes, Richard C

Address: 149 West Ave, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Contact Name: Hayes, Isabelle L; Relationship: Mother

Rank: Private

Service Number: 3729663

• "US Army WWI Transport Service, Passenger Lists," Source: The National Archives. Available at Fold3.com [17] accessed 26 Nov 2019. 17-020

Ship: U.S.S. Wilhelmina

Departure Brest, France on 27 Jul 1919; Arrival Hoboken, NJ on 6 Aug 1919

“Brest Casual Company 3213”

Hayes, Richard C

Address: 149 West Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode, Island

Contact Name" Hayes, Mrs Marie [originally "MRS. THOMAS HAYES" -- the ::"Thomas" was crossed out and corrected to "Marie"), Relationship: Mother

Regiment: Co B Cro Bn Bourges

Rank: Private First Class

Service Number: 3729663

• Richard C. [Hayes] of New York cited as son of Thomas Hayes (1854-1922) in “Thomas Hayes Dies in Alagansett {sic}, L.I." The Pawtucket Times (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)> Thu, 14 Sept 1922> page 8. Database and images available at the Pawtucket Library [18]

• "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2CJ-BTT2 : 22 July 2021), Richard Hayes and Anna Haller, 14 Jan 1925; citing Marriage, Bronx, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,954,629.

Richard Hayes, age 34, son of Thomas Hayes and Isabel Carbery

Anna Haller, age 31, daughter of Thomas Haller and Frances Stepany {sic}

• "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WG7-729 : 3 June 2020), (female) Hayes, 1925.

Birth date 17 Feb 1925; Death Date: 17 Feb 1925; Burial 18 Feb 1925; location: The Bronx, New York City, New York; residence 2614 Third Avenue, the Bronx.

• “Thomas H. Hayes, Richard A. {sic} Hayes, John A. Hayes, cousins of the deceased” listed as pallbearers for William P. Hayes (1894-bef.1928) in article “Pay Final Tribute to World War Vet,” The Pawtucket Times (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)> Tue, 10 Apr 1928> page 13. Database and images available at the Pawtucket Library [19]

• Richard C. Hayes of Brooklyn, N.Y., cited as son of Isabel L. (Carbrey) Hayes (1857-1934) in “ISABEL L. HAYES” Death Notice, ‘’The Pawtucket Times’’ (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)> Wed, 23 May 1934> page 9. Database and images available at the Pawtucket Library [20]

• Richard Hayes of New York City cited as brother in Obituary of Mrs. Isabelle Lambert in Pawtucket Times (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)> Thurs, 20 Jan 1938> page 2. Database and images at Pawtucket Public Library> Digital Resources> Newspapers [21]

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch ([22] : 29 May 2020), household of Richard C Hayes, Assembly District 21, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 24-2574, sheet 1A, line 27, family 8, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2614.

Residence: 2311 Foster Avenue, Brooklyn, New York

Richard C Hayes Head Male 49 Rhode Island; occupation: Manager/Fish

Anna Hayes Wife Female 46 New York

Thomas Hayes Son Male 13 New York; attending school

Richard Hayes Son Male 9 Brooklyn; attending school

• 1950 United States Federal Census> New York> Kings> New York> 24-3229> image 14, lines 25-38> household of Richard Hayes. Database and images at Ancestry.com Image

Richard C. Hayes; Head; age 59; married; born in Rhode Island; employment information left blank

Anna H. Hayes; Wife; age 52; married; born in New York; occupation: Bookkeeper at Wholesale Fisheries Company; father born in Austria; mother born in Czechoslovakia; highest grade level: 8th; weeks worked last year: none; non-wage income: $3,600 [additional questions for Sample Line 26]

Thomas F. Hayes; Son; age 23; never married; born in New York

Richard C. Hayes; Son; age 19; never married; born in New York

• Richard C. Hayes, State of New York, Certificate and Record of Birth 14###. Lists parents as Richard C. Hayes and Anna Haller. Paper copy of certificate in possession of A. Hayes.

• Frye, John, The Men All Singing: The Story of Menhaden Fishing. Donning Company, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1978. Electronic copy of the book available at [23]. Includes 1998 addendum “Now … Whither the Bunker” by John Frye. Section on Consolidated Fisheries pp. 112-114

• Phillips, Kristan, “The Rise of the Menhaden Fishing Industry in the Lower Cape Fear: Bussells, the Fisheries Products Company and What Happened to the Men Who Brought it Down.” Published in The Maritime Summer/Fall 2020, pages 12-16, a publication of the North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport. [24]