By Muriel Bristol | January 19, 2025
Phillip G. Hayes was born in Milton, April 2, 1904, son of Guy L. and Myrta E. (Clements) Hayes.
Guy L. Hayes, a carpenter (house), aged forty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Myrtie E. [(Clements)] Hayes, aged forty-seven years (b. ME), his children, Ethel M. Hayes, a teacher (intermediate), aged seventeen years (b. NH), Philip G. Hayes, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Mabel E. Hayes, aged twelve years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Charlotte L. Clements, aged eighty-one years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Edwin S. Huse, a teacher (high school), aged forty years (b. MA), and Ernest l. Wentworth, a watchman (Boston Ice Co.), aged fifty-five years (b. NH).
NEW DURHAM RIDGE. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hayes and the former’s mother, all of Milton, were Sunday callers at Mrs. Watie Berry’s (Farmington News, October 7, 1927).
NEW DURHAM RIDGE. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hayes of Milton and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Berry of Alton were callers at the home of Mrs. Waitie Berry, Sunday (Farmington News, November 25, 1927).
PERSONAL. Guy Hayes of Milton was in town last Friday (Farmington News, February 15, 1929).
Guy L. Hayes, a carpenter (house), aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty years), Myrta E. [(Clements)] Hayes, an operator (shoe factory), aged fifty-three years (b. NH), and his son, Philip G. Hayes, a carpenter (house), aged twenty-five years (b. NH). Guy L. Hayes owned their house on Farmington Road, which was valued at $1,800. They had a radio set. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles A. Horne, a retail merchant (meat and groceries), aged seventy years b. NH), and Carl M. Burrows, a truckman (state road), aged thirty-five years (b. NH).
Mother Myrta E. (Clements) Hayes died in Pittsfield, MA, May 5, 1935.
IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. Guy Hayes. Local friends of Mrs. Myrta E. Hayes, wife of Guy Hayes, were saddened by news of her death while automobile riding, May 5, with her husband and family party. She appeared in her usual health until strlcken with a heart attack from which she expired immediately. The deceased was 62 years of age, a native of Lebanon, Me., and a daughter of Samuel and Charlotte (Ingalls) Clements. She had been a lifelong and esteemed resident of Lebanon and Milton. She was educated at Lebanon academy and Nute high school, from the latter of which she was graduated. In April, 1900, she became the wife of Mr. Hayes. While she possessed a modest and retiring disposition, she was influential in the civic interests of her town and in church circles and was a Christian in every sense of the word. For a long time and until her death, Mrs. Hayes was employed in the shoe factories of this village. She is survived by her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Alice MacWhinney, Mrs. Ethel Canney and Mrs. Mabel Stevens, and one son, Philip Hayes of Milton. Funeral services were held at the Congregational church in Milton the Wednesday following her death and burial was in Lebanon, Me. (Farmington News, May 17, 1935).
The Milton Selectmen of 1936 were Louis E. Tibbetts, Leroy J. Ford, and Phillip G. Hayes.
WEST MILTON. It is pleasing to hear from Selectman Philip Hayes that Milton will, in all probability, receive federal PWA [Public Works Administration] funds for repairing flood damaged highways (Farmington News, June 5, 1936).
The Milton Selectmen of 1937 were Leroy J. Ford, Phillip G. Hayes, and Frank F. Spencer. The Milton Selectmen of 1938 were Phillip G. Hayes, Frank F. Spencer, and Stanley C. Tanner.
Father Guy L. Hayes married (2nd) in Hillsborough, NH, September 14, 1938, Nellie D. Daniels, both of Milton. Rev. Edwin B. Young performed the ceremony. He was a widowed carpenter & mason, aged sixty years, and she was a widowed housewife, aged sixty-two years. She was born in Goffstown, NH, March 27, 1876, daughter of Louis T. and Adeline T. (Garneau) Daniels.
Guy L. Hayes, a carpenter (building), aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Effie D. [((Daniels) Jones)] Hayes, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), and his son, Philip G. Hayes, a carpenter (building), aged thirty years (b. NH). Guy L. Hayes owned their house on Farmington Road, which was valued at $200. They had all lived in the same house in 1935. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Herbert A. Downs, a machine tender (leatherboard mill), aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Clyde W. Paey, a roller (leatherboard mill), aged twenty-five years (b. NH).
Philip George Hayes of Farmington Road, Milton, filed for the WW II military draft in Milton, February 16, 1942. He was born in Milton, April 22, 1904, and was aged thirty-seven years. He was employed by his father, Guy L. Hayes, of Milton, who was also listed as his next-of-kin or contact person. He was 5′ 10″ tall, weight 170 pounds, and had brown eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion.
Philip G. Hayes enlisted in the U.S. Army in Manchester, NH, October 28, 1942. He was a Strafford County carpenter, born in 1904, who was 68″ [5′ 8″] tall and weighed 164 pounds..
Father Guy L. Hayes died in Rochester, NH, January 10, 1949.
Philip G. Hayes, a carpenter (fibreboard mill), aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household was in the “6th cottage on right” on the “road to Center Lebanon, Maine.”
George E. Van Donmmele, a floweral agent, aged eighty years (b. NH), headed a Hillsborough , NH, household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mathilda A. [(Daniels)] Van Donmmele, aged seventy-seven years (b. ME), and his sister-in-law, Nellie D. ((Daniels) Jones) Hayes, a widow, aged seventy-four years (b. NH). Their household was on Church Street.
Step-mother Nellie D. ((Daniels) Jones) Hayes died in Rochester, NH, December 29, 1957.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Philip Hayes, Milton, land in Milton on Farmington road to Lloyd Perkins and Mary Perkins Farmington News, August 9, 1962).
Realty News. Philip G. Hayes, of Milton, to John G. Gilman of Milton, a tract of land on the westerly side of Hare road in West Milton (Farmington News, March 16, 1967).
Phillip G. Hayes died April 29, 1990.
References:
Find a Grave. (2021, December 8). Guy Leroy Hayes. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/234708764/guy_leroy_hayes
Find a Grave. (2016). Nellie D. Daniels Hayes. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/171871966/nellie_d_hayes
Find a Grave, (2022, April 26). Phillip G. Hayes. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/239235533/philip-g-hayes
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