Haynie Line of Descent, 1594-1805

Here is the ancestry of Samuel Garner Haynie, transcribed by a man who is married to a descendant of one of Samuel's brothers, John Wesley A. Haynie. This listing goes back one generation earlier than our immigrant ancestor, Captain John Haynie, who is shown as possibly having been born in a place called Alphington Derby, England. An internet search reveals an area called Alphington in the vicinity of Exeter. (Exeter is a coastal town in southwest England; Devonshire is an archaic name for the county of Devon.)

I haven't compared everything in this list to the Haynie book, to identify possible discrepancies.

John Haynie: Born-Abt. 1594 in Devonshire, England Died-Abt. 1660 Married: Bef. 1621 in England Married To: Elizabeth [maiden name unknown] Born-Abt. 1581 in Essex County, England Died- ? In England John Haynie: Born-May 02, 1624 in Alphington Derby, England (Also have a source born in Buck's Row, Elizabeth City, Virginia) Died-Bef. July 22, 1697 in St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia Married: Abt. 1643 in Northumberland County, Virginia Married To: Jane Morris: Born-Abt. 1630 in England Died-Bet. 1679–1714 in Northumberland County, Virginia His Son: John Haynie: Born-Abt. 1665 in St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia Died-Abt. August 1723 in St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia Married: 1704 in Northumberland County, Virginia Married To: Mary G. Sadler Born-1662 in Virginia Died-Bef. December 1706 in Northumberland County, Virginia His Son: Thomas Haynie: Born-Bet. 1704-December 1706 in Northumberland County, Virginia Died-Abt. August 1741 in Northumberland County, Virginia Married To: Martha Bearcroft (place unknown) Born-August 8, 1701 in St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia Died-Aft. April 22, 1741 in (place unknown) His Son: Spencer Haynie: Born-March 09, 1728 in St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia Died-[-?-] In Northumberland County, Virginia Married: Abt. 1748 in (place unknown) Married To: Elizabeth [maiden name unknown] Born-1730 in Virginia Died-[-?-] in (place unknown) His Son: Spencer Haynie: Born-March 07, 1758 in St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia Died-January 03, 1825 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee Married: Bet. 1782–1783 in (place unknown) Married To: Katherine King Born-Abt. 1754 in Virginia Died-1840 in Bastrop County, Texas His Son: John Haynie: Born-April 11, 1786 in Botetourt County, Virginia Died-August 20, 1860 in Rutersville, Fayette County, Texas Married: May 23, 1805 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee Married To: Elizabeth Brooks Born-August 16, 1787 in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia Died-October 6, 1863 in Bastrop County, Texas

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.

Dr. Samuel Garner Haynie (1806-1877)

I had a couple of exciting and lucky finds in books that I ordered this year from Amazon.com's Marketplace. First, Larry Willoughby's Austin: A Historical Portrait, a hardcover book updated in 1997, has an 1860's era picture of S. G. Haynie's "office and store" there on Congress Avenue, which was still a dirt road then. It was a drug store which became a general store, I believe. Once on an old census I saw that Poppa Hi's uncle was working in their store, when the uncle was a teenager. There's also a picture from the same location, but looking up Congress Ave. toward the Texas Capitol. (See below concerning Samuel Haynie's involvement in the construction of that first capitol building.) The Austin History Center shows the latter photo as the second illustration under their "Brief History of Austin" on the website.

Then I ordered Abner Cook: Master Builder on the Texas Frontier by Kenneth Hafertepe (1992) ---- and was delighted to find that there are numerous references to Dr. Samuel G. Haynie in the book, including a full page black and white copy of his portrait and a larger version of the picture of the Haynie-Cook house, plus another, much later picture of the front porch of that house when it held something called Ye Quality Shoppe. Abner Cook was the architect for the Texas Governor's mansion, as well as for the Haynie house in the adjacent block and numerous other buildings in Austin.

Here is my favorite quotation from the book:

William C. Walsh, an early resident of Austin, remembered Haynie as "a live wire. If he was not busy buying lots from the government, he was busy building a house on his latest purchase; and, while he watched the carpenters, he was explaining to any convenient listener why Austin was the best town on earth."

This is in a section of the book describing the 1852 appointment by the legislature of Dr. Samuel G. Haynie and James G. Swisher as the two commissioners who were to procure a plan for the state capitol, let the contracts, and superintend the construction.

S. G. Haynie was the mayor of Austin in the years 1850-51 and then during the Civil War, 1863-64. He also served as an early postmaster and was a legislator in the Texas Congress when his friend Sam Houston was the President [Republic of Texas period: 1836-1845]. His father, Reverend John Haynie, served as the chaplain for the legislative body.

Part 2: Origin of Haynie Name

Last night I looked up the Hanney location, linguistic root words in English place names, and finally another source for surname meanings: a free section of Ancestry.com.

 

Ancestry.com, which cites the Oxford Dictionary of American Surnames (or similar title), emphasizes the Irish origin with the old saint reference.  [When Christianity came to Ireland, it was combined with some of the Celtic goddesses and such.  Or maybe Eanna was a real woman in Christian times; I don't know.]  They implied that the bird connection was a mistake, because the Gaelic name Ian (ean) means bird...and somehow this was read into the O'Heaney or O'Heagney name...

 

However, I am charmed by the concrete geographic connections, as I was when I found the English village of Covington, which reportedly was where our Covington immigrant ancestor actually came from.

 

One thing that L.H. Rossman didn't find, apparently, was the town that Captain John Haynie came from.  He was a Royal Navy officer at the time, not just a sea captain as I wrote in another blog entry. 

 

If the name Haynie in fact had any connection whatsoever with the villages of West Hanney & East Hanney, then we can be sure that the "-ie" sound means island (-ey, -ay).  The Wikipedia entry says that these two little towns are in a low marshy area and used to be islands in the marsh!  Formerly part of Berkshire, they now belong to Oxfordshire.  They have a website:  www.thehanneys.org.uk 

Origin of Haynie Name

In the book Rev. John Haynie, Ancestry, Life & Descendants (1963), compiled over a period of several years by Loyce Haynie Rossman, the introductory section has an explanation of the Haynie coat-of-arms.  Then it gives the following information about our name:

 

Elsdon Smith's "Dictionary of American Names" states that the names Haynie, Hainey were English-Irish, meaning was: one who came from Hanney (island frequented by wild cocks), in Berkshire, or, the grandson of Eanna, an old Irish saint.

 

...Variants of the name are found in Cornwall and Southwest England, several of them bear similar arms.  There is reason to believe that the name originated some place in Normandy, but its various forms make it difficult to locate exactly.

 

FROM OTHER SOURCES:  "The surname Haynie is thought to have been derived from the Ancient Celtic word meaning "bird" --- [this version is in agreement with the source "one who came from Hanney, an island frequented by wild cocks."]

 

   The name is found in Ancient and early American records in various spellings: O'Heana, O'Heaney, O'Heane, O'Heany, O'Heney, Heney, O'hinig, Hoenig, Hainey, Heaney, Haney, and Haynie."  

 

In her preface L.H. Rossman mentions that some of the American records on our Haynie ancestors or their blood relatives are spelled Haney or Hayney. 

Two More Patriotic Ancestors

I obtained confirmation from the Daughters of the American Revolution look-up service that our ancestor John Covington (1735-1809) provided "Patriotic Service" during the Revolutionary War.  They said that this included such contributions as providing supplies to the army or repairing guns or other equipment.

 

On the Haynie side of the family, our great-great grandmother Hannah Maria Evans, wife of Dr. S.G. Haynie, was the granddaughter of a General Samuel Evans (this is from the book about the Rev. John Haynie and family).  Therefore, we're descended from officers named Evans on both sides of the family, since Lt. William Evans was an ancestor on the Tillett side.