Hayes Park

Historical marker location:

FM 227, Weches, Texas

( Augusta, south side of FM 227 between CR 1560 and CR 1685)

Marker installed: 1971

Named for Dr. J.W. Hayes (1854-1932), who came from Tennessee to Texas in 1860s and was a trail driver, locomotive engineer, and rancher. Entering Kentucky School of Medicine at 40, he graduated and became missionary to Indians. Wife Lena Belle (1883-1920). A son, G.J. Hayes, M.D., gave park site to honor outstanding physicians of Augusta since the 1860s: Drs. S.P. Cunningham (1840-1935), Hall Wilson (1860-1906), Ben S. Elliott (1866-1918), S.C. Kennedy (1883-1970), and Drs. Douglas, McDaniel, Pugh. (1971).