Samuel Haines
Joseph Haines, the grandfather of Samuel Haines, was a native of Warren County, Virginia,. He was the father of Nathan, Joseph, Vinson, Ebenezer, and Samuel.
Ebenezer married Rebecca Berry, of Virginia, and to this union twelve children, including this subject, were born. Their marriage took place February, 1799. Their children were born as follows: Mary, 1800; Ann, 1801; Elizabeth, 1802 ; Susanna, 1805 Rebecca, 1807; Sidney, 1809 ; Joseph, 1811; Nathan, 1813; Sarah, 1816; James, 1818; Beulah, 1820; and Samuel, November 18, 1822.
Ebenezer settled in Perry Township, about the year 1816, and on the same lands now occupied by his son Samuel. He paid $6 an acre for it at that time. Ebenezer died September 13, 1850, aged eighty years; his wife died February, 1846, aged sixty-five years.
Francis Berry, the maternal grandfather of our subject, served in the war of the revolution, and died in Kentucky.
The early education of Mr. Haines was more a matter of muscle than of brains, and much more of his time was given to clearing away the forest than to storing the mind with book knowledge. With all these disadvantages our subject obtained a rudimentary edacation. He mentions John Moon, Colby Chew, and Isaac Woodward as his early teachers.
He was married December 27, 1849, to Maria Smith, second daughter of Francis and Charlotte (Cochran) Smith, natives of Virginia and New Jersey respectively, but residents of Ohio. The Smiths came to Ohio from Virginia in 1820. Francis and Charlotte Smith had seven children, born as follows: Sarah, 1826; Maria, 1827; Anderson, 1830; Harriet, 1832; Charlotte, 1835; Henry, 1837; Elizabeth, 1839; John, 1840.
Mrs. Haines (Maria Smith) was born February 27, 1827. To Samuel and Maria Haines nine children have been born: Albert Berry, born November 15, 1850; married Worthington, and lives in Perry Township. Martha Ella, born November 13, 1852. Henry Lewis, born January 1, 1855 ; married Etta Belle Borum, of Clinton County, October 4, 1877. Francis Marion, born June 17, 1857; married Alvaretta Jones, of Green Township, August 10, 1881. James Edward, born June 30, 1860; married Nancy C. Worthington, of Green Township, August 10, 1881. William Addison, born July 23, 1863. Belle Ann, born August 9, 1865. Charles Milton, born February 21, 1869. Mary Eva, born September 19, 1871. The father and all his children were born in the same house in which the family now resides.
Mr. Haines has accumulated a competency by honest, hard labor, and well directed, legitimate trade. He owns five hundred and thirty acres of land in Perry Township, and has all in a good state of cultivation. He votes with the Republican party, but is not a politician. His daughter, Martha Ellen, has attained distinction as a teacher.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County