Charles Edwin Hayes
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 3 Jun 1921 - Milford, Clermont, Ohio, United States
Christening:
Death: 19 Feb 1960 - Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA ( at age 38)
Burial: in Guardian Angel Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Cause of Death: aircraft accident
Find A Grave ID: 154844911
Parents
Father: Charles J. Hayes
Mother: Alma Lorena Miller
Spouses and Children
1. *Jean Groh
Marriage: 5 Oct 1946
Marriage Notes
Per Wedding Announcement in The Cincinnati Enquirer 11/24/1946
HAYES - GROH
An event of October 5 at the rectory of St. Bernadette Mission was the marriage of Miss Jean Groh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Groh of Amelia, Ohio, to Mr. Charles E. Hayes. son of Mrs. Charles J. Hayes and the late Mr. Hayes of Milford. The Rev. Claude Nevin, C.P., performed the ceremony.
Attending the couple were Misses Ruth Brose and Maryl Ann Griffith, Mrs. Stanley Favret and Mr. Earl Hayes. The newlyweds are residing temporarily in Milford.
Children:
1. Karen M. Hayes
Notes
General:
Per Ohio, U.S., Birth Index, 1908-2003
NameCharles Hayes
Birth Date3 Jun 1921
Birth PlaceClermont, Ohio, USA
Certificate Number1921055536
Additional InformationMiller
Per 1930 US Census 4/7/1930 5057 Brandice Ave, Milford Village, Miami Township, Clermont, Ohio
Charles J. Hayes is the 29 year old white male head of household, who owns his home valued at $5,200 and a radio set. He was born in Ohio, his father in Pennsylvania, his mother in Kentucky. He works as an accountant for a tile mfg, and is not a veteran. His wife is 28 year old Alma Hayes, born in Ohio, her father in Kentucky, her mother in Ohio. Age at first marriage was 20 for Charles and 19 for Alma. They have 2 sons, both born in Ohio. Edwin Hayes is 8 years old and attends school. Earl Hayes is 4 years and 7 months old.
Per 1940 US Census 4/22/1940 555 Brandon Avenue, Milford Village, Miami Tshp, Clermont, Ohio
Charles Hayes is the 38 year old white male head of household, who owns his home valued at $5,500. He and his family were born in Ohio and lived in the same house in 1935. Educated through 2 years of high school, he works as an assistant treasurer for a tile mfg, working 40 hours last week, and in 52 weeks of work earned $3,780 in 1939. His wife, 38 year old Alma Hayes, was educated through 2 years of high school, does home housework. Charles Edwin Hayes is their 18 year old son, educated through 4 years of high school, works as an assembler in a tool factory, working 40 hours last week, and in 11 weeks of work earned $198 in 1939. Earl Hayes is their 14 year old son, attends school. Lawrence Hayes is their 2 year old son.
Per WWII Draft Registration 2/15/1942
Charles Edwin Hayes is 20 years old, born June 3, 1920 in Milford, Ohio. He resides at 555 Brandon Ave., Milford, Clermont, Ohio, and his phone number is Milford 5544. The person who will always know his address is Alma Hayes, same address. Charles works for American Tool Works Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. He is described as white race, 5'9": tall, 130 lbs., brown eyes, brown hair, dark complexion.
Per 1950 US Census 4/6/1950 55 Cleveland Ave, Milford, Clermont, Ohio
Charles E. Hayes is the 28 year old white male head of household, born in Ohio, as was his family. He works as office manager for teaching flying in aircraft, working 50 hours last week. His wife is 27 year old Helen J. Hayes, who keeps house. Robert C. Hayes is their 2 year old son. Karen M. Hayes is their 4 month old daughter.
Per Article in The Cincinnati Enquirer 2/20/1960
Families Mourn After Three Die
'Empty Gully' Is Scene Of Plane Crash On Indiana Hill by Margaret Jostea Enquirer Reporter
Three families mourned behind drawn curtains last night as investigators sifted meager wreckage in a barren, fire-blackened gorge off Shawnee Run Road.
The crash of the Champion Paper & Fiber Co.'s twin-engine plane directly affected in a real way only three men, three wives and 11 children.
But hundreds more\emdash schoof children, nearby householders and area businessmen\emdash were indirectly affected in a frightening way. The plane heading toward destruction and fire might have crashed upon them instead of in the empty gully.
And out at Lunken Airport, business associates of the dead men, Joseph Lockwood, Charles Hayes and Robert Kern, were stunned and unbelieving.
The three had taken to the air at 8:26 a. m. yesterday in the paper firm's big. twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar. Next time they were noticed was about 9:10 a. m. when Frank Bailey, service station attendant at Shawnee Run and Miami Rds,. looked into the air and saw the plane coming out of the west.
"I' was standing there pumping gas when it came over and all of a sudden, wham! The engines grabbed up real fast and it dove."
Added Bailey: "It was a miracle it didn't hit some houses. I didn't see it go near the school."
The school, St. Gertrude's is about 300 yards away from the service station.
Following the crash, nuns and about 650 children knelt to say a prayer of thanksgiving that they had been spared.
The area surrounding Shawnee Run and Miami Rds. is heavily-populated and busy. Voices and faces of residents reflected their thankfulness that the plane had made it as far as the gorge.
Shocked families received the news at homes not too far away from the scene of the crash and tire.
There was Mrs. Helen Jean Hayes and her children, Bobbie, 12. Rickie, 5, Karen, 9 Carol
Sue, 8. and Mike, almost 2. They live at 1079 Rosetree Ln.
At the Lockwood home, 7356 Kellogg Rd., there were besides Mrs. Lockwood, four chidren: David, 13. Nancy, 11, Mark, 10 and George, 6, all students at Anderson Township School.
And at Robert Kern's house, 6300 Salem Rd, were Mrs. Kern and two small children, Robert Frederick Jr., 2, and Keith Andrew, 5 months.
In the control tower at Lunken Airport nobody would hazard a guess as to what had caused the tragedy.
"What Joe Lockwood didn't know about flying you could hold in the palm of your hand," said Norbert Meyer, acting chief. "All three knew what they were doing one hundred per cent."
"Joe was an expert on flying mechanics, weather." added Meyer. "He could talk rings around most of us."
One at the other men interjected: "If you wanted infomation on something you asked Joe."
It was Lockwood, a pilot for Airlines Training Inc, who had taken Hayes and Kern into the air to simulate emergency conditions.
As Dick Smith, chief pilot for Champion Paper & Fibre Co., expiained: "To be competent in emergencies you have to practice emergencies."
Smith said such training flights were made every six months.
Kern had been flying for Champion about 5½ years and Hayes 9 years this month, said Smith. Both were veteran military men and Kern was a lieutenant commander in the naval reserve.
"I haven't the slightest notion what could have caused it, said Smith.
The crash scene probably would offer investigators little in the way of information.
A tail wheel was wrapped around a tall, brown tree. Charred plane parts looked more like accordions than anything else. The landing gear and the motor were still smoking at 2 p. m., about five hours after
the crash.
Up on a hill about 150 yards from the scene was a piece of propeller.
Parts of bodies were in tree-tops. But police on the scene felt that major portions of the bodies had been destroyed in the fire.
The curious -\emdash as usual\emdash thronged to the site. Some mothers slid through snow down t the gorge\emdash carrying babies. Police chased teenagers from the hill immediately above the fire. Automobiles trying to get to the area were turned away by the hundreds.
Per Article in The Cincinnati Enquirer 2/21/1960
3 Cincinnati Pilots Die In Crash Near School
650 Youngsters Pray In Thanks For Being Saved
'l'hree Cincinnatiains were killed instantly yesterday morning when a twin-engine transport plane crashed and disintegrated in flames in a wooded area of Indian Hill after skimming over a school attended by 650 children.
The dead:
Charles E. Hayes, 38, 1079 Rosetree Ln., apparently the pilot of the planea a Lockheed PV-1 owned by Champion Paper & Fiber Co., Hamilton. He had been a pilot for Champion for 10 years and was the father of five children.
Robert F. Kern, 35, 6300 Salem Rd.0, a passenger and a pilot for Champion since 1954. He was the father of two children.
Joe Lockwood, 35, 7356 Kellogg Ave., an employee of Airlines Training, Inc., and a former pilot for Procter & Gamble. He had four children.
A witness said the plane was cruising at between 1000 and 2000 teet when its engines suddenly roared. The plane then went into a near vertical dive at high speed and crossed Miami Road south of Shawnee Run Road. It cleared a row of houses and crashed into a wooded area some 300 yards from Si. Gertrude School, Madeira.
Frank Bailey, 27 Mulberry, Ohio, an attendant at a nearby gas station who watched the plane fall.said the aircraft acted as it the pilot didn't realize he was close to the ground.
Sister Mary John, principal of St. Gertrude School. heard the roar of the plane's engines and rushed to a door to see the crash in a hollow near the school.
The nun said she rushed to the school's public address system and led the 650 students in the school in a prayer for the souls of the men on board and of thanksgiving for their own safety.
"The prayers quieted the children and they remained calm" she said. "It was a terrible thing," said the nun. "God was good to us. We have much to be grateful for."
Several blocks away was the Camergo Elementary School attended by 731 children.
The $150,000 plane took off from ???nk? airport at 8:26 a.m. on what was to be a training flight.
Dick Smith, chief pilot for the paper company, said the flight was "what we call a refresh. To be competent in emergencies you have to practice the emergencies," he said. "and you can't practice with ????? aboard."
Folk?????????????? the plane held communication ??? tower at the Great Cincinnati Airport for ?instrument aid in climbing above the clouds.
About eight minutes after the last radio call from the plane, a routine report in which no mention was made of difficulty, the plane smashed nose first and apparently upside down into a creek bed.
The explosion that occured simultaneously jarred houses for a mile around. Wreckage was strewn for some 2000 yards in front of the point of impact and a blade of the propeller was found imbedded in the ground near the school-yard.
Father Paul Sianina, O. P., of St. Gertrude Church, returning from a sick call, was nearby and saw the explosion. He said he rushed to the scene and found the plane blasted into pieces.
In spite of police requests, the area was soon packed with curiosity seekers who filled streets and slid down the snowy hills to stand in the cold and look at the blackened bits of wreckage and bits of the plane scattered in tree limbs.
Cause of the crash was not determined. An investigation will be conducted by Fred Powell, a representative of the Civil Aeronautics Board, who flew in from Chicago yesterday afternoon.
Champion has four planes based at Lunkem Airport and in 1958 was presented with an award for logging more than two million air miles without an accident, the greatest number for an industrial concern operating airplanes out of the Cincinnati area.
Immediate identification of the plane was impossible due to the complete disintegration. At first it was thought ro be a U. S. Air Force jet and it was feared for a time that the plane was one which had left Lunken shortley before carrying several television officials, among them Hulbert Taft Jr. and Robert Taft Jr.
The Indiana Hill Rangers roped off the area after gasoline seeping into a sewer line set off a series of explosions that tossed manhole covers in the area several feet into the air.
The plane tragedy touched off an unexpected test of disaster fatalities in Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, Mariemont.
A caller erroneously informed the hospital a big jet-liner had crashed. Visualizing many casualties, Sister Mary Leonard, hospital administrator, put the disaster alert into effect.
All patients in the emergency ward were shifted to other parts of the hospital. Ten doctors, three surgeons, two orthopedists and five general practitioners - were redeployed to emergency, as was most of the nursing staff. Police were asked to clear a route for traffic incoming for the hospital.
Everyone was in position and ready - in just 10 minutes.
Per Obituary in The Cincinnati Enquirer 2/21/1960
HAYES
Charles Edwin, beloved husband of Helen Jean Hayes (nee Groh), devoted father of Robert, Karen,
Carol, Richard and Michael Hayes, devoted son of Alma Miller Hayes and the late Charles J. Hayes,
brother of Earl and Larry Hayes; suddenly, Friday, February l9, 1960; residence, 1079 Rosetree Lane, Mt. Washington, in his 39th year.
Memorial services will be held at the convenience of the tamily. Those desiring, may contribute to the charity of your choice. Craver Funeral Home, Milford, in charge of arrangements.
Per Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2022
NameCharles E Hayes
GenderMale
RaceWhite
Marital Status Married
Death Age38
Birth DateAbt 1922
Residence PlaceCincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Death Date19 Feb 1960
Death PlaceHamilton, Ohio, USA
Certificate Number13020
Inquest HospitalPublic - Other
Inquest QuestionsCertifier: Coroner; Autopsy Performed?: Yes, Used For Certification;
Per U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
NameCharles E Hayes
RaceWhite
Marital StatusSingle, without dependents (Single)
RankPrivate
Birth Year1921
Nativity State or CountryOhio
CitizenshipCitizen
ResidenceClerment, Ohio
Education4 years of high school
Civil OccupationAviators
Enlistment Date26 Sep 1944
Enlistment PlaceCamp Atterbury Columbus, Indiana
Service Number15118512
BranchAir Corps
ComponentReserves - exclusive of Regular Army Reserve and Officers of the Officers Reserve Corps on active duty under the Thomason Act (Officers and Enlisted Men -- O.R.C. and E.R.C., and Nurses-Reserve Status)
SourceEnlisted Reserve or Medical Administrative Corps (MAC) Officer
Height88
Weight000
Per U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985
NameCharles Edwin Hayes
Birth Date3 Jun 1921
Service Number15 118 512
Service BranchUS Army
Grade Pvt 2/c Medals None
UnitSq H 2109 Aafbu
Enlistment Date25 Sep 1944
Discharge Date6 Dec 1945
Death Date19 Feb 1960
Applicant Mrs. Helen Jean Hayes, 1079 Rosetree Ln, Cincinnati, 30 Ohio
CemeteryGuardian Angel Cem
Cemetery LocationCincinnati, Ohio, USA
Per Findagrave
Charles Edwin Hayes VVeteran
Birth 3 Jun 1921
Death 19 Feb 1960 (aged 38)
Burial Guardian Angels Cemetery Mount Washington, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Plot Section 2
Memorial ID 154844911