The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
j. GUERARD HEYwARD DEAD.
One of Savannah's Prominent Business
Men Suddenly Passes away.

O1lS Oh savannah FROM 1nenG BUSINESS
Men Suddenly Passes away.
j. Guerard Hayward died suddenly at his
residence, No. 101 Whitaker street, at 6: 80
O'Clock last night.
Mr.. Hayward spent yesterday morning
at his office, No. 10 Bay street, and at :
| o'clock in the afternoon he stood in front of
| the Cotton Exchange chatting pleasantly
| with a party Of gentlemen, apparently in
! the best of health and spirits. In company
with Maj. George A. Whitehead he boarded
a Whitaker street car and went home to
dinner He ate lightly aud lay dOwl Ia a
| little while he complained Of indigestion
| and told Mrs Hayward that he would sleep
a while before returning to his office.
Neither he nor Mrs. Hayward attached
! any Importance to his ailing, and he would
not listen 10 her remaining indoors but
told her to keep her engagements to
spend the afternoon out. He awOke
about 4 o'clock and began making
preparations TO go down town when the
same feeling of illness overcame him, and
he lay down again. He soon became worse
and his daughter, noticing that he was in
great pain, summoned a physician. Mrs.
Hayward was found at "a neighbours house
and fastened TO the bedside of her husband.
DIR. j. B. Read attended Mr. Hayward, but
the insidious attack baffied medical skill,
and the patient rapidly sank in death, it is
believed from intusSusception.
The deceased was the junior partner of
the firm of II. NJ. Conner q Co., cotton fac
tors, etc, No. 40 Bay street. He was born
in Beaufort county, South Carolina,
Jan. 5, 1874, his father being
wealthy planter who lost the family
estate through the results of the war The
deceased was the eldest Of the family and
was a graduate of the Citadel Academy of
Charleston. When t9e war broke out he
enlisted in the First South Carolina Regu-
lars, Capt. Mitchells Company, and al
though a mere boy he was commissioned a
Lieutenant, participating in the bonn
bardmeEt of Fort Sumter with
Stevens famous Iron battery.
After the capitulation of Fort Sumter
he was assigned TO duty in the fort. After
ward he was detailed for duty on Morris
Island, where, with his command, he was
captured by the Federals in their assault
from Folly Island, and was said to have
fired the last gun with his own hand before
the fortunes of war made him prisoner
He was sent to Johnsons Island, where he
was kept in confinement until the close of
the war.
Returning home he engaged in planting,
but did not find 1t profitable or congenial
He was not discouraged, but, like many
others who returned from the struggles for
the lost cause, he set to work manfulIy to be
the architect of his own fortune He began
his business life in Savannah in 1868 as a
bookkeeper, and through his untiring en-
ergy he attained the position eight years
later as junior partner in one of the leading
commercial houses of the South.
In 1866 he married Miss Pauline DeCara-
deuc, OF Charleston, S. c., to which union
were born three daughters and two sons,
who survive him, the youngest being in his
4th year. In 1871 Mr.. Hayward was book
keeper for Bates a. Conner, and after the
death of Mr.. Bates in 1875, he continued to
keep the books for II. NJ. Conner, who sue
ceeded to the business, and in the following
year he was admitted to partnership in the
firm.
No one is better qualified to judge of the
character of the deceased than the man
whom he served in a clerical and confden-
tlal capacity for five years and with whom
he was associated as an active partner for
the last twelve years of his life. Mr.. Conner
says of the deceased that he was sincere in
his friendships, honest i'll his every purpose,
modest and retiring and with a heart over
flowing with charity. He never turned
away from sorrowful appeal and that his
deeds of benevolence were many and I'M
heralded to the world. In his domes-
tic life, as in his friendships, he was deeply
attached TO home and family. He shrank
from public notoriety and studiously
avoided public life.
Mr.. Hayward was at thetime OF. his death
an honorary member of the Savannah
Volunteer Guards Battalion, and was at
one time Lieutenant in Company A, He
was a member of the Cotton Exchange,
of Pulaski Council, Royal Arcanum, and of
the Oglethorpe Club, and was connected
with various interests to further the pro-
gress of Savannah.
The time of the funeral has not yet been
determined, as relatives in the East were
being communicated with by telegraph last
night.