Ahijah Haynes Jr. (1805 - 1887)

Born 12 Mar 1805 in Wilmington, Windham County, Vermont, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Roxanna (Stevens) Haynes — married 1829 in Brunswick, Medina, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Birth

Ahijah was born, 12 Mar 1805, in Wilmington, Vermont. He is the son of Ahijah Haynes and Jerusha Willis. ^[1][2] According to the history of Stongsville, (Stone, L. G. and Haynes, T. E.): ^[3]

Marriage

"In 1829, he married Roxanna Stevens, a daughter of William Pitt Stevens, whose family was tho fifth to locate in Brunswick, having moved from New Marlborough, Berkshire County. Mass., in 1816. Mrs. Haynes was a typical New England woman and posse.csed a very active temperament. For twenty years before her death in 1856, she was an invalid. Four children we»*e born to this family; Milo Stevens in 1830, Edward in 1832, Nancy m 1840, and Malinda in 1845. Edward married Mary Rust, a teacher from Oberlin, in 1860, then moved to Ober-lin where he died in 1880. Nancy died at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. in 1861. Malinda married Lyman Freeman and died in Strongsville in 1879. In 1857, Ahijah Haynes married for his second wife Clarinda Freeman of Oberlin. The Freemans were pioneei's of Parma, Ohio, having moved there when the township was named Greenbrier. Mrs. Haynes took an active interest in educational and religious work, measuring each by the high standard of her own life. She died in 1888."

Death

"AHIJAH HAYNES, JR,, who died September 14, 1887, aged eighty-one years, was among the last of Strongsville pioneers. He was born in Vermont, Marcn 12, 1806, and in 1817, came to Strongsville. Mr. Haynes was a man of decided opinions which he fearlessly expressed and as warmly defended. Of course he met with opposition, but no one doubts the sincerity of his life and Christian character. Mr. Haynes was a strong Abolitionist and many slaves were helped on the underground railroad by him.

Sources

1. ↑ Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008. (From microfilmed records. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013.) Birth Record
2. ↑ Ahijah Haynes, Walter Haynes of Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire, England and Sudbury, Massachusetts and His Descendants 1583-1928, Rootsweb, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=billiepad&id=I1429, accessed on Aug 20, 2017.
3. ↑ Lucy Gallup Stone, Tamzen E. Haynes, History of Strongsville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio: With Illustrations, Berea, Ohio : Republican Printing Company. 1901. Web 14 Mar 2017, https://archive.org/stream/historyofstrongs00unse/historyofstrongs00unse_djvu.txt.