{"id":816,"date":"2015-09-20T15:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T20:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=816"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:04","slug":"w-r-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/w-r-haynes\/","title":{"rendered":"HAYNES, W.R."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>W. R. HAYNES,<\/strong> furniture dealer and undertake, was born June 29, 1844, in Williamson County, Tenn., being a son of <strong>R. R. and Sarah A. (Merritt) Haynes<\/strong>.\u00a0 The father was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., about 1808, was a cabinet-maker by trade and died in Williamson County, Tenn., in 1867.\u00a0 The mother was born about 1810 and is yet living.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of this sketch was reared at Triune, Williamson County, and learned his father&#8217;s trade.\u00a0 He served throughout the war in Company F, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry and received a wound at Wartrace in a skirmish.\u00a0 He was in all the important battles of the southwest with Forrest&#8217;s brigade.\u00a0 For a time he then earned his living at manual employment and then for two years he conducted a furniture and undertaking business at Triune.<\/p>\n<p>In October, 1872, he came to Shelbyville and opened up his business and has been very successful ever since.\u00a0 He was married May 31, 1876, to <strong>Mollie E. Summers,<\/strong> the result of this union being four children:\u00a0 <strong>Mary B., Kate S., Sadie and William R., Jr.\u00a0<\/strong> All the family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, <strong>Mr. Haynes<\/strong> being a steward in the church.\u00a0 Politically he is a Democrat, and he is an enterprising citizen of this county.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W. R. HAYNES, furniture dealer and undertake, was born June 29, 1844, in Williamson County, Tenn., being a son of R. R. and Sarah A. (Merritt) Haynes.\u00a0 The father was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., about 1808, was a cabinet-maker by trade and died in Williamson County, Tenn., in 1867.\u00a0 The mother was born about &#8230; <a title=\"HAYNES, W.R.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/w-r-haynes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about HAYNES, W.R.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,14,31],"tags":[2531,2529,2528,2525,2530,2524,2526,2527],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-rutherford","category-williamson","tag-haynes-jr-william-r","tag-haynes-kate-s","tag-haynes-mary-b","tag-haynes-r-r","tag-haynes-sadie","tag-haynes-w-r","tag-merritt-sarah-a","tag-summers-mollie-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}