Edna Jane Uzzell

b. 22 November 1831, d. 3 October 1886
  • Edna Jane Uzzell was born on 22 November 1831 in North Carolina.
  • Major Ben Uzzell Jr. and Margaret Bryan appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Greene County, North Carolina. Other members of the household included Edna Jane Uzzell, John C. Uzzell, Smitha Ruth Uzzell, Elizabeth Caroline Uzzell, Calvin Dunn Uzzell, Narcissa Uzzell, Elisha Bryan Uzzell and Lucretia Jeanette Uzzell.
  • She married Thomas Jefferson Haynie, son of Uriah Haynie and Dialthea Cook Perry, on 9 March 1854 in Montgomery County, Texas, with George W. Baines, MG, officiating.
  • Thomas Jefferson Haynie and Edna Jane Uzzell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Desanthea Haynie, Emmett Albert Haynie, Margaret Haynie and Jefferson Haynie.
  • Thomas Jefferson Haynie and Edna Jane Uzzell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Navasota, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Desanthea Haynie, Emmett Albert Haynie, Margaret Haynie, Jefferson Haynie, William U. Haynie and Mary Caroline Haynie.
  • Thomas Jefferson Haynie and Edna Jane Uzzell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Margaret Haynie, William U. Haynie and Robert Lee Haynie.
  • Her husband Thomas Jefferson Haynie became a widower at her death.
  • Edna Jane Uzzell died on 3 October 1886 at age 54 in Grimes County, Texas.
  • She was interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Anderson, Grimes County, Texas.
  • The following appeared on 12 June 1902 in the Houston Daily Post: (Navasota, June 11) At 12:30 o'clock last night, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Stoneham at Stoneham, T. J. Haynie ended a long and honorable earthly career.
         The body will be conveyed to Anderson this afternoon (Wednesday). Services to be held at the Preston hotel at 10 a. m. Thursday; interment to be in Odd Fellows' cemetery immediately afterwards.
         T. J. Haynie came to Grimes county from Alabama in the early forties. He was a young and vigorous man and settled about where the Dolph community is now located. He engaged in farming and by close diligence and energy soon demonstrated that he was one of the best and most successful farmers in this country. This occupation he pursued until the death of his wife, some twenty-five years ago, when he retired.
         Mr. Haynie married Miss Azzle [sic] of Montgomery county about 1853, and of the fruit of that union there now live Emmett, William, Jeff Haynie, Mrs. George E. White and Mrs. J. O. Stoneham.
         Mr. Haynie was 80 years old at the time of his death. He was a member of the State militia during the civil war, for many years a member of the Methodist church, and a member of the masonic fraternity. He was at all times a close student of all his business affairs, honorable and upright.
  • Early Haynie family burials in Grimes County were at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Anderson, now within a small fenced area.
  • Last Edited: 23 Mar 2014

Family: Thomas Jefferson Haynie b. 1 July 1822, d. 10 June 1902