- Co-founder of City of Oceanside, California
Biography
John Chauncey Hayes, Sr. was born 27 April 1853 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States to Benjamin Ignatius Hayes (1815-1877) and Emily Martha Gertrude Chancey (1821-1857) and died 26 July 1934 San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States of unspecified causes. He married Felipa Emerenciana Marron (1857-1947) 1875 in California.
Andrew Jackson Myers (1840-1907) applied for a Homestead Grant on the Oceanside mesa and he was allotted 160 acres in 1883. Cave J. Couts, Jr. surveyed the townsite and J. Chauncey Hayes sold the town lots. Myers is known as the founder of Oceanside as he owned the first land and was said to have built the first house.
J. Chauncey Hayes was not only the real estate agent but the Justice of Peace and the editor of his own newspaper, The South Oceanside Diamond. When he drew the petition for the first post office, the name "Ocean Side" was used, but later changed to "Oceanside."[1]
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Emily Martha Hayes (1876-1967) | |||
| Benjamin Franklin Hayes (1878-1937) | |||
| John Chauncey Hayes (1879-1959) | 18 May 1879 Oceanside, San Diego County, California, United States | 14 April 1959 Tepic, Narayit, Mexico | Isabel Kennedy (1881-1932) Rachel Lusardi (1892-1940) |
| Sylvester Marron Hayes (1881-1957) | |||
| Frederick Hayes (1882-1954) | |||
| John Griffin Hayes (1884-1948) | |||
| Louisa Helen Hayes (1886-1971) | |||
| Lenora Hayes (1887-1910) | |||
| Helen Cordelia Hayes (1889-1980) | |||
| Frank Hayes (1891-1943) | |||
| Robert Blaize Hayes (1894-1959) | |||
| Joseph Anthony Hayes (1895-1937) | |||
| Mary Madeline Hayes (1895-1988) | |||
| Edward McKinley Hayes (1897-1994) | |||
Siblings
Residences
Vital Records
Oceanview Mausoleum
- Location : Oceanview Cemetery (Oceanside CA), Oceanside, California
- Mausoleum #23
- John Chauncey Hayes at Find A Grave
See Also
- John Hayes
- Hayes in San Diego County, California
- Hayes in Los Angeles County, California
Notes
- ^ History of Oceanside - Oceanside Chamber of Commerce