Helen Hayes

Helen Marie Hayes, youngest child of Charles Thomas Hayes and Martha Belle Marshall, was born in Jun 1893, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and had two siblings, Jesse Thomas Hayes (1875-1943) and Gertrude A. Hayes (1880-1950). The Hayes family had moved from Ohio to Kentucky, then to Tennessee. Helen Marie Hayes married her first husband, 'Edmund Fessenden Cobb', October 26, 1914, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and their daughter, Eddie Marie Cobb (1915-1969), was born in Illinois. In 1920, Edmund and Helen were living in Denver, Colorado, and listed their occupations as "Actor" and "Actress," in "Motion Pictures." Edmund Cobb and Helen Hayes appeared together in A Rodeo Mixup (1924) and Riders of the Range (1923). Edmund and Helen divorced when their daughter was about 10 or 12 years old, and both remarried. Helen Marie Hayes married her second husband, Edwin Jackson (1898-1972), son of Merwin S. H. Jackson and Alice E. Roberts, on January 14, 1930, in Los Angeles County, California, as his second wife. [Note: Edwin Jackson's first wife, Genevieve B. Searle (1898-1995), had changed her name to Nagene Searle and embarked on a career as a script/scenario writer and script supervisor for movies.] Edmund Fessenden Cobb (1892-1974) married Vivian Marie Winter (1894-1974) as his second wife, on July 24, 1934, in Los Angeles County, California. Helen Marie (Hayes)(Cobb) Jackson died about 1932, when her daughter was 17 years old.