Asa Haynes was born February 9, 1804 in Duchess County, New York and passed away at the home of his daughter, Mary Ellen, in Lebanon, Missouri on March 29, 1889.[1]
1804 Feb 9, Asa Haynes was born in Dutchess County, New York, USA to parents Enoch Haynes and Elizabeth G [nee: Birdsall] Haynes, their eleventh and Elizabeth's last known child. Enoch married Mary Forte Wright in 1810 following Elizabeth's death in 1806.[1][2]
1880 resident Orange, Knox, Illinois, United States[2]
1886 A brief chronicle of Asa Haynes' life was published in 1886 and is available online by clicking here.[3]
1889 Mar 29 Capt. Asa Haynes passed away in Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri, USA at the home of his daughter Mary Ellen Haynes Booton.[1]. Buried in Haynes Cemetery DeLong, Knox County, Illinois, USA
1899 Another brief mention of the life of Asa Haynes was published in 1899 after his death and is available online by clicking here.[4]
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2 www.findagrave.com, Click here for Memorial page for Asa Haynes, accessed 11 Jun 2016, memorial # 5503651; tombstone photo on site gives date of birth as 11 Feb 1804 and date of death as 29 Mar 1889. His spouse was Mary Ann Elizabeth [nee: Gaddis] Haynes. Asa and Mary A Haynes are buried in the Haynes Cemetery in DeLong, Knox County, Illinois.
Birth: Feb. 9, 1804
Dutchess County, New York, USA
Death: Mar. 29, 1889
Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri, USA
Asa Haynes was born in 1804, in Dutchess County, New York. He was of Scotch-Irish parentage, his grandfather, Enoch Haynes, having come to this country early in its history, together with a brother William who settled in one of the Carolinas.
October 7, 1830, Asa married Mary Gaddis, to this union 8 children were born. Margaret, Clark, Elizabeth, Ann, Nancy, Mary Ellen, Charles, and Elary.
Mr. Haynes was one of the celebrated "Jayhawkers" of 1849, and in that year, crossed the plains as Captain of the company from Monmouth.
Asa died at the home of his daughter Mary Ellen Booton in MO while he was visiting her and her family, and his body was shipped to the Haynes Cemetery. Also, Emery H. Sweetser, half sister Estella Strain died at her Aunt Mary Ellen Booton's house in Missouri in 1886 but she was buried in the Lebanon City Cemetery. (bio by: C. J. Hinds)
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Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Gaddis Haynes (1811 - 1884)*
Children:
Margaret Haynes Strain (1833 - 1925)*
Clark Haynes (1834 - 1891)*
Elizabeth Haynes Sweetser (1838 - 1921)*
Nancy J Haynes Wiley (1845 - 1914)*
Mary Ellen Haynes Booton (1846 - 1903)*
Charles A Haynes (1849 - 1934)*
Elary Haynes (1852 - 1853)*
Burial:
Haynes Cemetery
DeLong
Knox County
Illinois, USA
Created by: Florence Banks
Record added: Jun 03, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 5503651
↑ 2.02.1 "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXV7-DG4 : accessed 12 June 2016), Asa Haynes in household of Charles A Haynes, Orange, Knox, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 145, sheet 309A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0220; FHL microfilm 1,254,220.
Name Asa Haynes
Event Type Census
Event Date 1880
Event Place Orange, Knox, Illinois, United States
Gender Male
Age 76
Marital Status Married
Race White
Race (Original) W
Occupation At Home
Relationship to Head of Household Father
Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Father
Birth Year (Estimated) 1804
Birthplace New York, United States
Father's Birthplace New York, United States
Mother's Birthplace New York, United States
Sheet Letter A
Sheet Number 309
Person Number 5
Volume 1
HOUSEHOLD ROLE GENDER AGE BIRTHPLACE
Charles A Haynes Self M 31 Illinois, United States
Laura A Haynes Wife F 27 Illinois, United States
Jennie Haynes Daughter F 8 Illinois, United States
Edna Haynes Daughter F 7 Illinois, United States
Eva M Haynes Daughter F 3 Illinois, United States
Asa Haynes Father M 76 New York, United States
Mary J Haynes Mother F 68 Pennsylvania, United States
Robert Ott Other M 20 Illinois, United States
Emma Ott Other F 23 Illinois, United States
↑Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois
By Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo and Chicago; Chapman Brothers, pub.
Published 1886
Pages 937-938.
Asa Haynes, one of the prominent pioneers of this county, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., of Scotch-Irish parentage. His grandfather, Enoch Haynes, came to America with some of the earlier settlers, and with him a brother, William, who settled in one of the Carolinas, and Enoch at the North. They were active, prominent men during the struggles of our national birth, and both left their family name to posterity. Both families have always been Union loving men, and their later descendants are strongly possessed of the same characteristics.
Asa, the subject of this sketch, was bereft of a mother’s care while yet a babe, and was cared for by an elder sister until nine years of age, when he was “bound out” to man named Nickerson, with whom he lived until 15, when he returned to his father’s house and remained until he was 22. His father moved to Clinton County, Ohio, and there Asa helped clear a farm and employed himself as was the custom of those days. Hardship and toil were the companions of his earlier years; he never owned a hat or cap until he was 11 years old, nor a boot or shoe until 13. He was sent to school for two months in the winter season, but all told he only had 13 months’ schooling.
At the age of 22, he, in connection with an elder brother, purchased a farm and went to work for himself. He married, at the age of 26, Miss Mary Gaddis, of Fayette County, Pa. She was of Irish descent, and a lady of much spirit and beauty. Her parents were considered well off, in a worldly point of view, and her suitors were many; but she chose the dark, strong “Black Yankee,” as he was dubbed, and made him a cheerful and helpful companion for many years; and as we read the history of the man, as father, neighbor and citizen, we read hers, too, as the wife and mother — careful and watchful, bearing without murmur the many burdens laid upon her, and rearing her family as best she might, being always faithful and willing, and thinking of “father” and his comfort above all else.
Oh, who can pen the history of a wife in those days of new beginnings — the lonely days stretching into weeks and months, the extra work and toil laid upon shoulders already too weak to bear their load. “Verily, they shall have their reward.”
They were married Oct. 7, 1830, he aged 26, she 18. He was dressed in black cashmere knee-pants, with white silk stockings, and low shoes with silver buckles, a blue broadcloth coat, known as the “clawhammer,” adorned upon the lapels and cuffs, and upon the hips, where it was faced with yellow silk, with gold buttons. His hair was combed back smooth and braided down behind and tied with a blue ribbon. She was arrayed all in white. The slippers were high-heeled, and the dress was gored to the waist, a hoop was in the lower hem, and the sleeves were “mutton-leg.” A long, large white lace shawl was thrown over her and a white vail covered her hair, rolled on top of her head and kept there by a comb a foot high.
They lived upon their farm until 1836, when they came to Knox County. They had at this time two children – a girl three years old and a boy ten months old, accompanied by two nephews aged 11 and 13. They started the 1st of September and were 19, days on the road, 17 of them being rainy. The rivers were all swollen or out of banks, and the harness on the horses was never dry from the time they started until they arrived at their destination. They had bought 300 acres of land on section 30, Orange Township, and here, in a log cabin of one room, they settled.
The new settlers soon began to take an active part in the business of the county and township, and soon there was not an enterprise afoot but what the name of Haynes was connected with it. He soon started a brickyard, and in 1840 put up a mill on Brush Creek, and began sawing lumber and making brick. He taught school during the winter, in his own house. In 1843 he built a large frame barn, getting out and sawing the lumber at his own mill, and at the raising there was every man in the county, excepting three. It was a huge affair for those days, and was the topic of conversation for years. The next year, 1844, he began to build his house — a large, two-story brick, with 12 rooms and a cellar, and, while the barn had been a wonder, the house was still greater, and stands to this day as a monument of his skill.
While engaged in these improvements, he was from time to time buying more land, building fences and tenement houses, and helping, too, in the business of the county, being for several years a County Commissioner and Supervisor. The nearest flouring-mills were Long’s, on Spoon River, and Edwards’, upon Green River. The nearest markets were at Canton, Peoria and Oquawka. Most of his furniture was made by hand and at the house, by Jesse Perdue, who also made the framework of his house. The farm at that time presented a lively appearance; the mill and brickyard were in full blast; there were from 8 to 12 yoke of oxen and horses, with their drivers, coming and going, breaking prairie, hauling timber to the mill, men splitting rails and building fence, the masons at work on the stones, and the women at their weaving, spinning, dyeing and cooking, presenting the appearance of a small colony. And the busy times were interspersed with wet or cold days. When under cover, the many hands were set to work mending harness, making brooms, ax handles, and patching boots and shoes — for everything was done at the farm, and everything kept in repair. A tailoress was hired for six months in the year, to cut and make the homespun suits. Sheep were kept, and all the bedding and clothing were made here. The loom and spinning wheel were never idle, and life on this farm was a busy scene.
Of course there were many exciting and some quite dangerous experiences in such an early day, and we might fill quite a volume with incidents and anecdotes of those early days, but we can only give a few, as the life of the pioneer is now very like what it was then.
The timber was full of wolves, the prairie of deer, and small “varmints “of all kinds pestered and worried the settlers; a half dozen hounds were a part of every farmer’s household, and were a necessary adjunct. The wolves were very bold, often carrying off a pig or lamb in broad daylight, and to have a dog rush out barking savagely and the man rush in for a gun was a common occurrence. Many a night the men have been up most of the night keeping the wolves from carrying off small pigs or killing the sheep. They would seldom attack a human being; but once, as Mr. Haynes was coming from Knoxville, he was attacked by a large gray wolf. Mr. Haynes was on horseback, carrying a pair of heavy new boots; the wolf sprang and caught his leg; he knocked it off, and, getting off his horse, killed it with the boots.
Mr. Haynes owned at one time 989 acres of land in Orange Township, 500 acres in Iowa, 120 acres in Lower California. He was one of the famous “Jayhawkers,” of 1849, and crossed the sandy desert in company with sixty others in that year; was Captain of the company that went from Monmouth, Ill. He was a staunch Union man during the late war, and contributed money and influence and had many relatives on both sides of the family, a son and three sons-in-law in the army. His life was threatened several times by what were called the “Knights of the Golden Circle,” but he never flinched in speaking his opinions. He was one of the founders of the Knox County Agricultural Society, of which he is a life member. He was one of the first three men who introduced Short-hormn cattle into the county, and was the first to bring in the spotted China hog. For many years he was the great stock-raiser of this part of the county, and his word was always as good as his bond.
He lived for a number of years in California, where he owned two beautiful farms. He lives at this writing at the old homestead in Orange, aged 82 years. He lost his wife three years ago, and his family have all married and settled, as families will. One, a son, lives in Lower California; one in Southern Kansas; two daughters in Missouri, and two in Orange, near the old home. His relatives are in every State in the Union, and, with very few exceptions, among her best citizens — patriotic, honorable and industrious.
↑1899 Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, Knox County
By W. Seldon Gale & Geo. Candee Gale
Published by Munsell Publishing Company, Publishers, Chicago & New York, 1899
Transcribed and posted to web by Kathy Mills and Foxie Anderson Hagerty
Haynes, Asa. Captain Asa Haynes was born in 1804, in Dutchess Co., NY. He was of Scotch-Irish parentage, his grandfather, Enoch Haynes, having come to this country early in its history, together with a brother, William, who settled in one of the Carolinas.
The mother of Asa died while her son was an infant, and he was cared for by an older sister. At nine years of age he was “bound out” but six years later he rejoined his father, who was “coming west”. Clinton Co, OH was their destination, and here the boy helped clear the farm and shared in the toil and hardship of pioneer life. Now and then in the winter time he was sent to school for a brief term, but he received altogether not more than thirteen months of such instruction.
At the age of twenty-two, together with an older brother, purchased a farm; and four years later, Oct. 7, 1830, Mr. Haynes was married to Miss Mary Gaddis, of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. She was of Irish descent, was a noted beauty, and there were many suitors for her hand. She proved a devoted wife, and cheerfully bore her part in the common burdens of the time.
In 1836, Mr. and Mrs. Haynes removed to Knox County. They occupied nineteen days upon the trip, in almost continuous rain, finding the rivers greatly swollen, and reaching their journey’s end only after much discomfort and danger. They began their residence in Illinois in a log cabin of one room, located in Section 30 of Orange Township, where Mr. Haynes had purchased 300 acres of land.
The enterprise of Asa Haynes was equal to the opportunities afforded by the undeveloped country. Soon after his arrival he started a brick yard, and in 1840, built a saw-mill on Brush Creek. His appreciation of the advantages of education is evidenced by the fact that in winter he opened a school in his own house and taught it himself. In 1843 he built a large frame barn-the largest in the county at the time. The “raising” was an historic event; with only three exceptions every man in Knox County was present to assist. The next year saw the erection of a fine two-story brick house of twelve rooms, which is still standing. The lumber for the barn and the brick for the dwelling had been manufactured by Mr. Haynes himself; most of the furniture was constructed on the spot, a competent workman having been secured for the purpose. A large number of hands were employed upon the place, until it seemed more like a colony than a farm. Sheep were kept to supply the wool needed for clothing, and a tailoress was hired for six months every year to cut and make the homespun suits. With such a spirit of ambitious enterprise Mr. Haynes prospered, and performed his part in the development of Knox County. He was County Commissioner and Supervisor for several years.
Mr. Haynes was one of the celebrated “Jayhawkers” of 1849, and in that year, crossed the plains as Captain of the company from Monmouth. He was a republican, and during the Civil War was outspoken in the expression of loyal sentiments and was several times threatened by the notorious Knights of the Golden Circle, though without effect.
Note by Foxie Anderson Hagerty:
Mr. Haynes kept a diary of his trip with the Jayhawkers plus, they later had
reunions till they all died out. In California in Death Valley they have a
group who keep the Jayhawkers alive. I was very fortunate to be able to
meet and help one man named Marvin and do research and guide him
around Knox county when he came here. Marvin is such a delightful person
and would also love to put a memorial in the Colton Park for the Jayhawkers.
For many years he was a noted stock-raiser, having been the first to introduce the spotted China hog, and one of the three men who first brought shorthorn cattle into Knox County. He was one of the founders of the Knox County Agricultural Society. At one time, Mr. Haynes owned nearly 1,000 acres of land in Orange Township, 500 acres in Iowa, and two fine farms in California, where, for several years, he made his home.
In religion he was a Protestant Methodist. He died at the old homestead in Orange Township March 29, 1889.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Haynes: Clark, deceased; Margaret; Elizabeth; Anna M., deceased; Nancy; Mary E.; Charles A.; and Elery, deceased. One son and one daughter live in Kansas; two daughters are living in Missouri, and one daughter lives in Orange Township, near the old home.
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