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Frank's theater companions and seating are not known.
His body was identified by his father or
fourteen-year-old brother, Emmet, at Rolston's
funeral home. Both were cited in different
newspapers. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in
Chicago the morning of January 2, 1904.
Frank was a partner with Lynn S. Tidyman in the
Tidyman & Hayes candy and ice cream store on
the Milwaukee St bridge in Janesville. It isn't
known when they opened their doors but newspaper
advertisements first appeared in May 1903 and
continued until December 19, 1903.
Tidyman relocated to Racine, WI a few months after
his partner's death. The store furnishings were sold
to Edward Connell and store management was taken
back by a Al Smith, a long-time confectioner in the
city.
A funeral service was held in
Chicago immediately after the fire and two weeks
later high mass was said by Father Goebel at St.
Mary's church in Janesville, attended by his
parents.
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Frank was the oldest of four children. His father,
Dennis Hayes, immigrated to the U.S. from Canada in
1872 and was a longtime police sergeant at the
Larrabee St. station in Chicago. The family owned
their home at 69 Clifton Ave. in Chicago. Mary and
their children were natives of Illinois.
In the years after the fire
Mary Hayes passed away early in 1905. Dennis was almost forced to retire
from the police department in 1909 by Chief Shippy,
along with two dozen other sergeants who were over
fifty years of age. He managed to hang on to his
job, however, and in 1910 was a desk sergeant at the
Hudson Avenue station. In 1910 Dennis remarried to
Elizabeth Bergh of Beloit, Wisconsin.
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