A transcription of a page 1 article from 5 Jun 1902 Simcoe Reformer

Ex-Mayor Hayes Dead.

Some two or three years ago Dr. Hayes was attacked by a severe illness at which time his life was despaired of. He eventually recovered so far as to be able to resume his practice and take his usual place in the affairs of the town, but his friends have ever since been concerned as to the finality of his recovery.

That their fears were well founded was only too certainly proven early on Saturday morning last, when it become [noted] about that he had succumbed to a sudden return of his [maakly].

It appears that about three o'clock the doctor awoke and complained of feeling ill. Mrs. Hayes proposed to get up and secure assistance. When she got to his side he was already unconscious. He did not regain possession of his faculties and at almost half-past seven peacefully breathed his last.

Dr. Hayes' name was a household word in hundreds of homes in the community, he having enjoyed for a third of a century a very large practice as a physician and surgeon.

He was born in Simcoe 58 years ago. He received his medical degree at McGill. 

He was goal surgeon, Physician in charge of the county home, surgeon for the Grand Trunk Railways and for a number of fraternal societies.

He was a Mason, an Oddfellow, a Workman and a Forester. 

He was for three years mayor of the town and for ten years chairman of the Board of Education, of which body he was the mentor member.

In politics he was a Conservative and any time during the part twenty-five years might have had a parliamentary nomination.

His funeral Monday to Trinity Church and Oakwood Cemetery was the largest seen in Simcoe in years. A widow and three daughters survive him.

A transcription of a page 1 article from 5 Jun 1902 Waterford Star

Dr. James Hayes, for many years a practicing physician in Simcoe, and well known all over Norfolk County, died suddenly of paralysis on Saturday morning.

Dr. Hayes was at one time mayor of the town. He was for many years chairman of the school board and has filled many other offices in [connection] with the working of the town.

He was a native of Simcoe and a graduate of McGill. 

The funeral was held from his late residence on Monday afternoon, being conducted by the Masonic fraternity.

Service was held in the Trinity church [from] which interment took place in Oakwood Cemetery.

 
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