JAS. CALVIN HAYTER,
Was born November 11, 1849, on the family estate where he still resides,
two miles east of Abingdon. He is a son of James E. Hayter, whose
father, James C. Hayter, was born in Washington county at an early
date. In colonial days the Hayter family, of Scotch-Irish descent, settled
in the Clinch Mountains, founding Hayters Gap, where the first
fort was erected for the protections of colonists from Indians. The family
records go back to 1754, when Israel Hayter was born. The mother
of Jas. Calvin Hayter was Louisa Bowen Thompson, of Tazewell
county, Virginia, a direct descendant of Lord Baltimore.
His wife was also born in Tazewell county, near Liberty Hill, Mary
Madison Ward, daughter of Dr. E. B. Ward, her grandfather of Irish
descent, one of the first settlers in Tazewell county, founding settlement
known as Ward's Cove. Her mother was a Miss Miller of Giles county,
Virginia, in which county the Miller family were early seated, and are
still honored. They were married by Rev. J. H. Alexander, in Smyth
county, Virginia, November 15, 1882, and have now four children
Eddie Blair, Lillie Grace, James Madison, and Louisa Bane.
The father of Mr. Hayter entered the Confederate States Army in 1863,
serving till close of war, his last service in Lynch's battery. He was
taken prisoner near Wytheville, and held a short time. Benton and
Samuel Thompson, maternal uncles of Mr. Hayter, were also in service.
