HAYES CEMETERY

This cemetery is located on the south side of State Highway 21 about two miles
southwest of Antioch. 

Name                     Born                Died           Misc                       

Goree, Melissa E. Hayes       1 Feb. 1844         19 Oct. 1865   wife of Robert Goree

Goree, Infant                                     19 Oct. 1865


From Sue Ann Hayes Cobb:
Patrick H. Hayes founded three large plantations on the Trinity River in the 1830s.  He 
built a large home on Seven Oaks Plantation and lived there with his family.  Seven Oaks
covered eleven square miles and over half the land was intensively farmed.  The house was
located near the Cemetery, which is east, 3.2 miles from Midway, Texas, on Highway 21, on
the south side of the highway.

His wife died in the 1850s and was buried in Old Waverly, Texas.  In his will, he stated
that his wife's remains shall be transferred to this place.  "This place" refers to the
Hayes private cemetery on Seven Oaks Plantation.  That is how the cemetery began.

I have gotten excerpts from Patrick Hayes' will and also from his grandson, Dr. Herbert T.
Hayes, (his letters), as well as excerpts from family research done by Langston James Goree
in 1977.

The persons buried in Hayes Cemetery to the best of my knowledge:

Patrick H. Hayes

Amanda Melissa Johnston Hayes (wife of Patrick)

James F. Hayes (son)

Melissa Elizabeth Hayes Goree (daughter of Patrick and Amanda - broken urn where she is buried)

Infant child of Melissa Hayes Goree

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