While Baker's index identifies 12 references for Benjamin, 8 of them actually refer to Benjamin's son Benjamin A. Haynes.
There are four direct references to Benjamin in the book.
On page 43: Benjamin Haynes is identified as one of the 35 taxpayers in the Tax Book dated 1858.
On pages 124 and 125, Baker introduces the reader to Benjamin and his family.
"The author does not know where the Haynes family came from, but the 1860 census records that Benjamin (49) was born in New York state as was his wife Mary Ann Stone (41) and their two older children, Oliver (22) and Walter (20). Other children were John (18), Phillip (14), Benjamin A. (13), Truman (11), Nathan (10), Nancy (8), Charles (6), and Ida (2)."
"They lived in the upper Bell Run area for many years. Benjamin died in February, 1889 and his wife, Mary Ann Stone, died in December 1900. As the children married, they too settled in the Bell Run and Shinglhouse area but some moved into McKean County. The only exception was Benjamin A. who came to Weimer Hollow on the Sartwell Creek portion of Pleasant Valley Township. He married Eleanor Reed, (b.1846) a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Burt) Reed. Their children were Nora (b. 1868) who married Richard Jay and also lived in Weimer Hollow. The Jay's children were Elizabeth, James, and Ella."
On page 132, we read of the settling of the Haynes family farm.
"The next property north of the Brown residence was settled around 1860 by the Benjamin Haynes family. They had ten children. Some later lived nearby in homes of their own. Also, some of Benjamin's grandchildren were living here in 1950. The last was the Eugene Haynes family. At the present time [1986] not a person with the Haynes name is living here. The remains of the former home of the Willis T. Haynes family can be seen here. They later moved to Myrtle."
I'll return to Benjamin and Mary Ann again soon.
