Census for Lawrence and Jennie Duprey Hayes HouseholdCensus for Lawrence and Jennie Duprey Hayes HouseholdEdward and Kerry O'Brien Biggins Family Tree Home Page
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Genealogist Maureen O'Brien provided much of the following information.
Lawrence Hayes was born in St. George, Chittendon, Vermont, on April 22, 1861. His parents were Lawrence and Mary Ellen Lynch Hayes. He was baptized on June 2 at St. Mary's Church in Burlington. The family lived in Williston. In 1882, Lawrence went to Eureka, California and worked on a dairy farm.
Jennie Mae Duprey was born in New Haven, Addison, Vermont, on February 7, 1874. Her parents were Benjamin and Jane Cockle Dupry. Jennie was an 8th cousin of Calvin Coolidge, who served as the 30th President of the United States from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer born in Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of Massachusetts. Jennie and Calvin descend from John Coolidge, born in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1604. He was baptised at All Saints' Church in September 1604. The family home is believed to be the thatched cottage adjacent to All Saints’ Church. Calvin Coolidge contributed funds to the restoration of the church tower in 1928. The table below shows the the name, birth place, and birth year of Jennie and Calvin's ancestors back to John Coolidge.
| Jennie Mae Duprey | President Calvin Coolidge |
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| John Coolidge (Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1604) | |
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Lawrence Hayes and Jennie Mae Duprey were married at St. Mary's Cathedral in Burlington, Vermont, on January 5, 1891. Their daughter Mary Mabel Hayes was born in Williston on May 8, 1890, and baptized the day of their marriage.
They lived in Williston. Sons John, Lawrence, and Thomas were born in Williston in 1891, 1893, and 1896. Daughter Ellen Elizabeth "Nellie" was born in 1898.
They moved to South Burlington, where sons William, James, and Stephen were born in 1899, 1901, and 1903 and daughter Ruth in 1909.
They purchased a farm in Shelburne in 1919.
Daughter Mabel married Francis Joseph (Fred) Brown in South Burlington on November 6, 1908. They had a daughter Rita Marion Brown born January 24, 1921. Mabel divorced Fred Hayes in Burlington on April 16, 1925. In the 1930 census, Mabel, 39, was living on Williston Road in South Burlington, divorced, working as a dressmaker in her own shop, living with her daughter Rita, 9, and Aunt Margaret Hayes, 75. Mabel married Leo O'Brien in Crown Point, New York, on June 17, 1930. Sons Leo and Daniel were born in Burlington in 1931 and 1933. See: Leo and Mabel Hayes O'Brien.
Nellie Hayes married George Merritt Cilbreth in 1925. They lived in North Elba, New York, about 60 miles west of Burlington. They then moved to Winooski. Nellie had a child, Ethel, in 1918, but Nellie died six weeks later due to complicatiions of childbirth.
On September 29, 1927, the Hayes barn in Shelburne was destroyed. It was filled with hay, grain, farm tools, and wagons.
Five weeks later, on November 4, 1927, Jennie Duprey Hayes, daughter Ruth, and granddaughter Ethel Cilbrith died in Bolton in the Great Vermont Flood of November 2-4. The main crest of the Green Mountains runs north to south through the eastern part of Bolton, and the Winooski River, running east to west, cuts through the mountains south of the center of the town.
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Lawrence Hayes was living in South Burlington in the 1940 census. He is reported on Sheet 61, but there is a note that says he belongs on Sheet 7, Household 115, which is the household on Patchen Road of his daughter Mabel and her husband Leo O'Brien. Sheet 61 also says he lived in Milton, Vermont, in 1935. See: Leo and Mabel Hayes O'Brien.
Lawrence Hayes died in Colchester in 1943. He had been living in South Burlington. See: Find A Grave.
