ANDREW  JACKSON  HAYNES

and

WILLIE  WARREN  (POTTER)  HAYNES

…and Families of their sons Irl Potter, Hubert Ray,

and Lander Warren Haynes

   In the year 1900, Andrew Jackson Haynes (1847 Fulton, Callaway Co., MO – San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX), wife Willie Warren (Potter) Haynes (1860 Saline Co., MO – 1950 Nevada), and sons, Irl Potter, Hubert Ray, and Lander Warren moved from Marshall, Saline Co., MO to Vernon County.  They purchased approximately 320 acres some four miles northeast of Nevada.  Eventually 160 acres each were given to sons Hubert Ray and Irl Potter.

      Andrew’s family is traced from Jasper Haynes (born 1715 in Culpeper Co., VA) through Moses G., Sr., William John, and William James.  He served August 1864 to August 1865 as a sergeant in Company F, 49^th Missouri Infantry.  Willie’s family can be traced back some six generations to Anthony Potter, having emigrated from England to Ipswich, Essex Co., MA in 1642.

     The reason for the family’s relocation from Saline Co. is unsure, as Andrew was reported to have been a successful attorney in Marshall, although it was reported in oral history that he “…moved to Nevada to get a bigger farm on which to raise 3 boys.”  Born in Fulton, Callaway Co., MO in 1847, he died at in 1940 age 93 in San Antonio, TX…apparently, in his later years he would spend the winters there due to bronchitis health.  Willie, having been born near Arrow Rock, Saline Co., MO died at age 89 in Nevada, spending her final weeks “in town” at an in-home nursing facility.  Both are buried at Newton Burial Park.

A summary of the 3 sons follows:

     1)  Irl (1886 Marshall – 1966 Nevada) married Josephine Evelyn Frazier in Shreveport, LA (?) 1912 and had children Frazier Jackson and Barbara ___ (Haynes) Hansen.  He married second Margaret Lucille Weddle 1927 in Savonburg, KS and had children Stanley Andrew, Lucille Warren (Haynes) Hazekamp, Alvin Lander, Alan Ray and Paul Duane.

     Irl was given an unusual, short name because his parents did not like nicknames; college yearbooks would later refer to him as “Pickles,” as he was a pickle-lover.  He was a life long student in the languages and theology, was degreed from Missouri Valley College in Marshall and Phillips University in Enid, OK.  He was both a farmer and teacher-coach, having taught and/or in administration-coaching:  in the South (KY, WV, MS); in Savonburg and Troy, KS; in Marshall, MO, as well as  the Ozarks areas of Brandsville and Koshkonong, MO, and Paragould, AR; and in the Walker, Richards, and Sheldon schools in Vernon Co.

     During WW I he was deployed with the YMCA, serving in connection with the Armed Expeditionary Forces in Paris, France.

     2)  Hubert Ray (1895 Marshall – 1942 Nevada) married Blanch Molloy.  They had children Hubert and Jack, both born ca. 1940.  In 1921 he second married Ruby Helen Strawderman in Nevada and had Louis D., whose birth and death dates, unfortunately, were both the same day in 1932 in Fort Scott, KS.  Hubert Ray’s passing was tragically attributed to a crushing death under his tractor while, to save time returning to the house, took a steep shortcut crossing a creek at day’s end.  He had served 13 months with the U.S. Army’s 64^th Infantry in WW I in France.

     3)  Lander Warren (1898 Marshall – 1929 Nevada) married Lucille Elizabeth Ancell in 1919.  They had children Frances, Willie and Elizabeth.

     As the last-born (AKA “baby”) of Irl and Margaret, I recall the early days living four miles northeast of Nevada.  I was the only one born in town, at the Nevada Hospital, where our mother later took a position as LPN…before later working as the nurse for Dr. Standlee Love on the south side of the Square; that was in the days before insurance and government “involvement” in health care, and only one person was really needed in a doctor’s office.

     My one-room schoolhouse experience was limited to two years, as the state called for school district consolidation in about 1951.  We lived virtually across the road from Board School, with its two “his” and “hers” outdoor privies in the rear corners of the school yard.  Mrs. Creamer was our teacher.  Classmates remembered include the Lamb boys, Arthur Hudson, and my nearby (1 ½ miles!) best friend, Larry Ewing.

     In the fall of 1952, while away visiting sister Lucille, a student at the Conservatory of Music in Kansas City, our farmhouse burned to the ground…apparently of old, bad wiring.  While “renovating” a chicken house that escaped the fire, we were welcomed by our neighbors to the south, the Lloyd Evans (sp?) family…they lived across the road from the Ed Kibler family.  We then “evicted” the occupants from that chicken house – after all, it was a well-constructed structure with concrete floor – and moved in for a few weeks.  We sold that 160-acre farm and moved across town to one of 30 acres 1 ½ miles due south of Nevada.

     My recollection is that our family was always active at the First Christian Church.  A particularly fond memory there includes an overwhelmingly generous shower of household items and clothing given for our family after the farmhouse had burned.  Being used to hand-me-downs, I was personally overjoyed with having brand new clothes for the first time in my life!  During the 1960s, however, circumstances at the church were such that our parents deemed a move to be advisable, and, among others, founded the Community Church in Nevada.

          Written with the assistance of

          Elizabeth Vane “Betty” (Haynes) Ryan

          Stanley A. Haynes

          Lucille W. (Haynes) Hazekamp

          Willie Warren (Haynes) Lathrop

          Submitted February 2, 2007, by Paul D. Haynes

          1410 S. Zeeb, Ann Arbor, MI  48103-9333

          Phaynes968@aol.com

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