25 December 2008

Post script: Samuel G. Haynie

Our great-great grandfather also served in the Texas House of Representatives, after the State joined the Union.

And, as cited in a relatively new book called Savage Frontier 1838-1839: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, he participated in the 1839 Mill Creek Fight, Burleson's volunteers against Cordova's rebels.

He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, lived for several years in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and migrated to Texas in 1837. He was one of the first doctors to practice in Texas, and he married Hannah Maria Evans in 1841. They may have had as many as eleven children, one of whom was Charles Raymond Haynie, our great-grandfather, born 1855. He was named after Charles Raymond, a man listed in the TSHA online handbook as a "lawyer,soldier, and diplomat."


Dr. S. G. Haynie is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin. Hannah Evans Haynie lived until 1898 and lies buried beside her husband.

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