Clifford Oscar "Slim, Jake, Daddy, Grandpa" Hayes
Clifford pronounced the local placenames the way the old-timers had. Iowa was Ioway, and the town of Exira was pronounced Exiree. Clifford retained the formalism of his generation. For example, when he referred to his father-in-law, with whom he had worked in the fields, he called him Mr. Hilsabeck, never using his first name. Clifford was kicked by a horse in about 1950, which broke his leg, and he walked with a slight limp after that. He was tall, at least 6 ft. 2 inches, and slim.
Clifford was a gentle man. When his daughters were small, and had done something which required discipline, he would explain that 'I wouldn't have done that." His third daughter said that was the worst thing in the world, to find out she had done something her Daddy would not have done, and when he said that, she felt thoroughly bad and thoroughly punished.
- Elizabeth Chain, his grandaughter (2002).
Verna graduated from Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls, and taught school before she married. This was part of the reason she and Clifford kept their marriage a secret for several months (also they both may have been afraid to tell their mothers).
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Obediah, age 31, and Melissa, age 27, are listed in the 1910 census in Greely Tp, living with their children Virgil, Vernie (age 3) and Bernice, and Lela Jordan (Melissa's niece).***************************************************************************
Audubon Co death index: Hayes, Verna Ellen 01-11-1977 H 310
5 children, 11 Grandchildren, 7 ggrandchildren
entered a monastery and left all his lands to Bandolph in the time of William the Conquer, in the year 1006