Lorenzo Dow Haynes
1829 - 1894 (65 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
1. Lorenzo Dow Haynes was born on 16 Aug 1829 in Rutherford County, North Carolina; died on 28 Aug 1894 in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina; was buried in Pleasant Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. Other Events:
- Census: 1880, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina
Notes:
Gone to Rest.
L.D. Haynes died at his home near Lincolnton, N.C. Aug. 28th 1894. He was born in Rutherford county, N.C., Aug. 16th 1928. He was a good citizen and a useful man. For quite a number of years he was a Justice of the Peace and his administrations were always considered just and equitable. All who knew him spoke well of him . For many years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The first conversation I ever had with Brother Haynes was concerning the church and the needs of the Pastor, and the first time we ever talked together, just a few days before his death, was on the same subject. He was expecting to die and expressed himself as being ready and willing. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn their loss. May God bless them in their sad bereavement and when they pass away, one after another may they all meet in Heaven.
M.T. Steele.
The Lincoln Courier, Lincolnton, North Carolina. Friday, 7 September 1894, page 3.
In Memoriam.
The stern sergeant, Death, has again, with the ponderous mace of time knocked at the portals of eternity, and ushered a weary pilgrim in. The headaches and heartaches that haunted long the way of the sojourner, are now but as memory of a dreadful dream. The earthly life that went out in the gray dawn of the morning of August 28th, 1894 had been in the keeping of Lorenzo Dow Haynes for sixty five temporal years. His career was an unusual one; he was an unusual man. Having traveled considerable over many different states, he naturally was in possession of a large store of experience and practical knowledge of various subjects. He was generous to a fault; broad minded as the circumstances under which he lived would permit; genial, kind and great-hearted, though sometimes nervous and impulsive. His sympathy was only outweighed by his unbounded love for all children, and especially his own. He laid no claims to sainthood, but belived with an abiding faith in the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of humanity. Ready to go on the errands of love and mercy at all times, never once considering the strain upon his own system. He clung to his faith in God with the tenacity of one who realizes its worth, and almost with his dying breath expressed his gratitude to one who had prayed for him. And must we say that such a life is ended? No, so, we dare not, for God, who created man is His own image, did not breathe into him a life to be ended as the light of a candle is extinguished. Rather let us say that death is not the end of , but only an event in, life. For, out of the narrow portals through which he has gone, and up to which every soul of earth is surely marching, there spread the limitless fields of eternity. = And God is there; and where God is there much be life. “The gift of God is eternal life,” and that is the life that is beyond the grave. Indeed we bemoan our loss, but, blessed be God, it is his eternal gain. We “weep not as men without hope,” but are looking for the “resurrection of the body and the life everlasting” Peace, peace to his ashes! May the memory of his unselfish life, and of his many deeds live ever-green in our hearts to ennoble and uplift us to that high sphere in which our Master dwells, for
“Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day:
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away,
Change and decay in all around I see:
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
Hold though thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies:
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.”
C.L.H.
The Lincoln Courier, Lincolnton, North Carolina. Friday, 14 September 1894, page 2.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103362772/lorenzo-dow-haynesLorenzo married Sarah Frances "Fannie" Leonhardt on 13 Feb 1866 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Sarah was born on 7 Jun 1848 in Lincoln County, North Carolina; died on 5 Sep 1930 in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina; was buried in Pleasant Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Milford Wiley Haynes
was born on 5 Sep 1878 in Lincolnton, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; died on 23 Mar 1945 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; was buried on 25 Mar 1945 in Hollybrook Cemetery, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina.
Generation: 2
2. Milford Wiley Haynes (1.Lorenzo1) was born on 5 Sep 1878 in Lincolnton, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; died on 23 Mar 1945 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; was buried on 25 Mar 1945 in Hollybrook Cemetery, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. Other Events:
- Occupation: North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development
- _MILT: Spanish-American War.
- Census: 1910, Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Notes:
Milford W. Haynes
Tarboro. – Milford Wiley Haynes died in Bass Memorial Hospital in Tarboro on Friday at 1:30 p.m. following an illness of six weeks. Mr. Haynes was born in Lincolnton on Sept. 5, 1878.
Mr. Haynes was connected with the State of North Carolina for 37 years in one connection of another. During the greater part of this time he was with the Department of Conservation and Development and his work in Eastern North Carolina has long been recognized as outstanding in this field. At the time of his death he was engaged in the tent and awning business.
Mr. Haynes was a Spanish-American War veteran. He was a charter member of the Tarboro Kiwanis Club and served as president and as chairman of many important club committees. During the past few years he served as lieutenant-governor of the Carolinas Kiwanis district and was at one time or another a member of district and international committees for Kiwanis International For the past three years he had served as chairman of the community service panel of the local War Price and Rationing Board.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. J.W. Bowles of Lincolnton; two brothers, P.S. Haynes of Jacksonville, Fla., and Charles R. Haynes of Atlanta, Ga.,; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted in the Howard Memorial Presbyterian Church on Sunday at 10 a.m. by the Rev. R.S. Hough, assisted by the Rev. Robert McNair.
The body will be taken to Lincolnton and interment will be there Monday.
The News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina. Sunday, 25 March 1945.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82935233/milford-wiley-haynesMilford married Nora Hedges on 23 Dec 1903 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Nora (daughter of John R. Hedges and Mary Emma "Mollie" Day) was born on 13 Nov 1883 in Tilton, Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 17 Nov 1911 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; was buried in Fleming County Cemetery, Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]