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Batton's salary as sheriff in 1961 was $10,715, or $88,500 in 2019 dollars. Some $104,000 was disbursed for salaries of all the deputies.<ref>"1961 Audit Report Released for Sheriff's Salary Fund", ''Minden Herald,'' June 14, 1962, p. 1.</ref>
Batton's salary as sheriff in 1961 was $10,715, or $88,500 in 2019 dollars. Some $104,000 was disbursed for salaries of all the deputies.<ref>"1961 Audit Report Released for Sheriff's Salary Fund", ''Minden Herald,'' June 14, 1962, p. 1.</ref>
====Defeat in 1964====
====Defeat in 1964====
In a field of eight candidates, the junior Haynes emerged as Batton's principal rival in the 1963-1964 primaries. Haynes had once been a deputy under his father's tutelage and thereafter for eight years supervised the state driver's license office with jurisdiction over all of North Louisiana.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5eVZvsyb00C&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=J.+D.+Batton+of+Minden,+LA&source=bl&ots=G_xmoAl3pF&sig=gy2tY1NMiqDXK94gKqkvh0XP0hU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=e-YEVPmJG8f28QG5sIDICA&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=J.%20D.%20Batton%20of%20Minden%2C%20LA&f=false|title=Minden|series=Images of America|author=John A. Agan|date=2000|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|pages=94|isbn=0-7385-0580-3|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> He was also the [[Exxon]] distributor in Webster Parish for some four decades. Freddie Lynn "Fred" Haynes (1946-2006), the second of four sons of the junior Haynes, was a [[Louisiana State University]] Tigers football star. Fred Haynes was the winning [[quarterback]] for his Minden High School Crimson Tide team which won the 1963 state championship.<ref name=mindenandperseverance/>
In a field of eight candidates, the junior Haynes emerged as Batton's principal rival in the 1963-1964 primaries. Haynes had once been a deputy under his father's tutelage and thereafter for eight years supervised the state driver's license office with jurisdiction over all of North Louisiana.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5eVZvsyb00C&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=J.+D.+Batton+of+Minden,+LA&source=bl&ots=G_xmoAl3pF&sig=gy2tY1NMiqDXK94gKqkvh0XP0hU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=e-YEVPmJG8f28QG5sIDICA&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=J.%20D.%20Batton%20of%20Minden%2C%20LA&f=false|title=Minden|series=Images of America|author=John A. Agan|date=2000|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|pages=94|isbn=0-7385-0580-3|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> He was also the [[Exxon]] distributor in Webster Parish for some four decades. Freddie Lynn "Fred" Haynes (1946-2006), the second of four sons of the junior Haynes, was a [[Louisiana State University]] Tigers football star. Fred Haynes was the winning [[quarterback]] for his Minden High School Crimson Tide team which won the 1963 state championship.<ref name=mindenandperseverance/>
Haynes prevailed with 6,952 ballots (53.3 percent) to Batton's 5,456 (41.8 percent) and Vaughan's 634 (4.9 percent). Batton won the Minden area by five hundred votes but fell short in the remainder of the parish.<ref>"Haynes Uses Ward 2 Margin for Victory", ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 6, 1967, p. 1.</ref>
Haynes prevailed with 6,952 ballots (53.3 percent) to Batton's 5,456 (41.8 percent) and Vaughan's 634 (4.9 percent). Batton won the Minden area by five hundred votes but fell short in the remainder of the parish.<ref>"Haynes Uses Ward 2 Margin for Victory", ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 6, 1967, p. 1.</ref>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Batton was married to the former Maxine Evans (1916–1982). The couple was [[Southern Baptist]] and had three children, Roger Evans Batton (1943–2001), married to the former Frances "Gayle" Barton (1946-2018), a native of Winnsboro in Franklin Parish;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/frances-gayle-batton/|title=Frances "Gayle" Batton obituary|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|date=October 29, 2018|accessdate=October 31, 2018}}</ref> John Willis Batton (born 1947), a businessman from [[Hot Springs, Arkansas|Hot Springs]], [[Arkansas]], and his wife, Judith Yvonne "Judy" Batton (born 1944), and Karen Sue Batton (born 1949) of Heflin in south Webster Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57068303|title=Roger Evans Batton (1943–2001)|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=November 30, 2001|accessdate=September 12, 2014}}</ref>
Batton was married to the former Maxine Evans (1916–1982). The couple was [[Southern Baptist]] and had three children, Roger Evans Batton (1943–2001), married to the former Frances "Gayle" Barton (1946-2018), a native of Winnsboro in Franklin Parish;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/frances-gayle-batton/|title=Frances "Gayle" Batton obituary|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|date=October 29, 2018|accessdate=October 31, 2018}}</ref> John Willis Batton (born 1947), a businessman from [[Hot Springs, Arkansas|Hot Springs]], [[Arkansas]], and his wife, Judith Yvonne "Judy" Batton (born 1944), and Karen Sue Batton (born 1949) of Heflin in south Webster Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57068303|title=Roger Evans Batton (1943–2001)|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=November 30, 2001|accessdate=September 12, 2014}}</ref>
Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 12, 2014}}</ref> His father, J. B. Batton, is interred at Brushwood Cemetery in Dubberly;<ref name=battondies/> his brother, Jack, and nephew, James Howard "Jimmy" Batton (1943–1997), are interred at the Minden Cemetery. Jimmy Batton was a sheriff's deputy and later an investigator for the district attorney's office.<ref>"James Howard (Jimmy) Batton", ''Minden Press-Herald'', December 30, 1997, p. 1.</ref>
Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 12, 2014}}</ref> His father, J. B. Batton, is interred at Brushwood Cemetery in Dubberly;<ref name=battondies/> his brother, Jack, and nephew, James Howard "Jimmy" Batton (1943–1997), are interred at the Minden Cemetery. Jimmy Batton was a sheriff's deputy and later an investigator for the district attorney's office.<ref>"James Howard (Jimmy) Batton", ''Minden Press-Herald'', December 30, 1997, p. 1.</ref>
==References==
==References==
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