Jefferson Haynie

Jefferson Haynie

• Father: Thomas Jefferson Haynie b. 1 July 1822, d. 10 June 1902
• Mother: Edna Jane Uzzell b. 22 November 1831, d. 3 October 1886

• Jefferson Haynie was born on 8 January 1859 in Texas.
• 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 Jefferson Haynie, Desanthea Haynie, Emmett Albert Haynie and Margaret 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 Jefferson Haynie, Desanthea Haynie, Emmett Albert Haynie, Margaret Haynie, William U. Haynie and Mary Caroline Haynie.
• During the summer of 1873, he was enumerated in the public free schools census in the First School District of Grimes County: Jeff Haynie, age 13, White Male.
• George Egbert White and Desanthea Haynie appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Grimes County, Texas, and also eight other boarders in addition to eff Haynie, as well as four domestic servants. George E. White was the enumerator for this census in this area.. Other members of the household included Jefferson Haynie, Elois K. White.
• He was a clerk in a store, according to the 1880 census.
• Jeff Haynie was the White Hall postmaster from 10 April 1896 until it was discontinued an transferred to Yargorough on 15 June 1901.
• Jefferson Haynie appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Grimes County, Texas, a boarder in the household of farmer Conway Atwood.
• He was a landlord, according to the 1900 census.
• He married Myrtle B. Holderby, daughter of Thad Holderby and Elizabeth Watson, on 13 February 1902 in 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.
• The following appears in the Grimes County Probate Minutes: Estate of William U. Haynie, died intestate, administrator for Grimes County brother Jeff Haynie, petition filed 18 July 1903. Died 8 March 1903, wife mentioned as "Mrs. Maggie Haynie" and siblings mentioned in inventory as "the other 5 heirs of T. J. Haynie & wife E. J. Haynie, both deceased, viz: Emmett A. Haynie, R. Lee Haynie, Jeff Haynie, Mrs. Addie H. White, and Mrs. Margie H. Stoneham."
• The following appeared on 3 May 1906 in the Navasota Examiner-Review: Jeff Haynie, a prominent Walace Prairie planter, is spending the day here.
       Wallace Prairie was the location of Groce's Retreat on the east bank of the Brazos, established in 1833. The pioneer community Wallace's Prairie war renamed Whitehall in 1873, and its cemetery is known as Whitehall-Fairview.
• Jefferson Haynie died on 22 September 1906 at age 47 in Grimes County, Texas.
• His wife Myrtle B. Holderby became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Anderson, Grimes County, Texas.
• Early Haynie family burials in Grimes County were at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Anderson, now within a small fenced area.

• Last Edited: 21 Nov 2016