Haynes Family History

Old Van Wert Sign, Polk County, Georgia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

ElebMonroe Haynes was born in Georgia and he is found in the 1870 Census in his father's household in Polk, County Georgia. His father's name was Thomas and his mother's was  Mary.They attended church at the Van Wert Baptist Church.

Eleb's sister was 13 in 1870; her name was Missouri..The household included his father Thomas, his mother Mary, his sister, and three others, 2 white men who may have been relatives and one black man who may have been a former slave. Eleb was noted as 16 years old. By 1880 Thomas and Mary were in Mississippi and they lived alone.

Eleb  came to Texas sometime after 1870 and married Rhoda Louisa McCuiston on December 30, 1877 in Athens, Texas. They had six children: Bertha, Thomas Benton, Mary Emaline, Anthony Samuel, Carrye Lee, James Grady, and one infant who did not survive. 

Most everybody that will attend the HAL Family Reunion knows who Frank Haynes was: First, he was my husband, but more importantly to the family, he was Lillie Emaline Alexander and Anthony Samuel Haynes' youngest son, and grandson of Eleb.. 

Southeastern Georgia? (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)

In the 1910 Census the Alexander and Haynes families were recorded as next door neighbors.  Romance flowered between Lillie and Anthony and they were married in Athens, Tx. on August 7, 1911. They moved to the La Rue community.