Obituary of Hannah Maria Evans Haynie

The Save Austin's Cemeteries organization is preparing to give a tour of Oakwood Cemetery, which will feature early Austin residents including Dr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Haynie.  Their historian happened to find the obituary of our great-great grandmother and sent me a copy.

The following was published 112 years ago today in the Austin Daily Statesman, on February 12, 1898, a Saturday.  I've corrected only the error in her initials; the newspaper printed N.M. instead of H.M.  (In the 19th century, women didn't use their maiden name as a middle name.)

2017 NOTE: Please refer to the comments I posted below, as to other discrepancies.

The town in upstate New York where she was born is called Evans Mills, possibly founded by her family; the Wikipedia entry about it states that for a brief time in the middle of the 1800s it was called Evansville.

SAD NEWS.
                    
Mrs. H. M. Haynie Is Dead -- The Funeral Services This Morning.

Thursday night Mrs. H.M. Haynie died at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. Luckett, in Bastrop.  The remains were brought to this city yesterday and the funeral services will be conducted from St. David's church this morning at 10 o'clock.  Mrs. Haynie is well known among the older residents of this city, among whom she had lived so long and enjoyed such a wide circle of friends.  She was born in Evansville, N. Y., in 1817, and moved to this state in 1843, locating in Washington county, but in 1850 she came to Austin when her husband moved here.  She had two brothers who were closely connected with the early history of Texas, one dying on the battlefield with Fannin and the other going down in the defeat of the Alamo.  Her maiden name was Evans.  Four children survive her, viz:  Mrs. Orlando Caldwell, Mrs. Carpenter, Mrs. Dr. Luckett and another daughter residing in New York.  There are also two sons, Mr. Tom Haynie of Lampasas and Mr. Charles Haynie of Bastrop.

The news of Mrs. Haynie's death, while not unexpected to her many Austin friends, will be received with deep regret, and the sympathy of all is tendered the sorrowing relatives.

St. David's is the Episcopal Church in downtown Austin.  I visited the church recently and have since learned from their archivist that this ancestor of ours was one of the four original members, in the 1840s.

I imagine that her casket was brought from Bastrop to Austin by train, presumably accompanied by family members.  Perhaps our grandfather, age seven, was in attendance at the funeral of his grandmother.

Found the missing data about the Gatlin family

Tonight I stumbled upon someone with great Gatlin info on RootsWeb.  Macy Gatlin (Campbell)'s father, or G.W. Campbell's maternal grandfather, was Moses Allen Gatlin, born a twin in 1782 with the infant brother dying.  He apparently served in the War of 1812.  Macy G. Campbell's mother was named Chloe Rowe (Gatlin).

Moses surely was a popular name, with Macy's husband being Moses Campbell, and her daughter-in-law Eliza Jane Wright having a brother Moses Wright. --- Oh, and I just noticed that Macy married a man of her father's age, too, if the birth year for Moses Campbell of 1781 is correct!  Maybe there was a shortage of young men when the War of 1812 was over in 1815.  She was born in 1800 in Warren County, Ga., and lived until 1888, or until at least three years after Granny got married. 

This source also shows the next generation back was Jesse Gatlin, who is said to have served in the Revolutionary War.  This family seems to have had the same migration pattern as the Campbells: N.C. to Ga., then later to Ala.

If you look at the link below, "Mrs. McDuffie" refers to the author of a book cited, The Gatlin Family in America.

If you click on Pedigree, you'll find they trace the line back to about 1500 in Sussex, England, when the name was Gatland.

Another source had made me think that Macy's father was named Jeptha, but this was her brother's name.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=klineclan&id=I8765

A Revolutionary War soldier in the Walker family

Several months ago I bought a rare book called The Walker Heritage, which I found referenced on line when looking for info on the Wrights, Granny's mother's family.  John Walker was a teenager when he served in the Revolutionary War, and his family lived in Maryland.  After the war he moved to Lincoln County, Georgia, which is north of Augusta.  He was married three times, as the first two wives died.  He apparently was a successful planter and also a Baptist minister, and he is reputed to have served in the State legislature just after the turn of the 19th century.  The child of the second marriage was Elizabeth Walker (Wright), maternal grandmother of Ava Lucerne Campbell Hill ("Granny").

Anyway, John Walker moved his third (and extended) family from Lincoln Co. to Walton Co., Georgia.  He died soon thereafter, circa 1836 --- his will is very interesting reading ---but the Walker descendants evidently prospered there for generations, and our grandmother had a third cousin among them who was Governor in the 1920's.

What isn't clear yet is whether the Wright family ever lived in Walton County.  The material I'd found before implied that after his wife died, John Wright -- who also served in the Georgia statehouse -- and his children, including Granny's mother Eliza Jane who was about 13 years old, moved to Alabama directly from Lincoln County, in the late 1840's.  The will in the book gave a piece of land to the Wrights, but it doesn't say which county the parcel was in.  At any rate, I suspect Wright probably sold their Georgia holdings when they made the move to the Tuskegee area.

Haynie-Cook House

Here is a larger image of the Haynie-Cook House, compared to the thumbnail-size one I previously posted to the blog.  This is a scan of a print I purchased from the Austin History Center.

Aurora Gardens

Earlier this year, I was wondering where the name Aurora Gardens came from, for the first subdivision we lived in, in New Orleans.

It turns out there was an Aurora Plantation, established in 1742.  The house was probably among those quaint old homes we sometimes drove past on the road next to the levee, and my guess is that the very land on which the subdivision was laid out may have once been part of the plantation's cultivated fields.