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The Family of
Henry Carter Haynes
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Henry Carter Haynes was the ninth child born to James Edward Haynes and Sallie E. Anderson. He was born
on August 03, 1891 (one family record shows the year as 1890) in Bedford County, Tennessee. Henry Carter Haynes and Virginia (Jennie) Elizabeth Russell obtained a license for marriage in Bedford County, Tennessee on December 21, 1910. They were married on December 22, 1910 by T. J. Stricklin, Pastor of M. E. Church. Virginia Elizabeth Russell was the daughter of Thomas Allen Russell and Melvina Claxton Russell. She was born April 01, 1894 in Bedford County, Tennessee. Carter and Jennie lived in Cannon County, Tennessee at one point during their marriage. While they were there, Jennie lost one child. She was tending their garden when she tripped and fell which caused her to lose this child. This baby was buried in Cannon County. The only other child born to Carter and Jennie was:
(Buried Cochran Cemetery - Rover, TN)
When Carter was about 26 years old, he came down with tuberculosis. During the time that Carter was so ill, he
moved in with his father, Jim Haynes so he could help take care of him. Carter died January 15, 1917 and is buried in the Haynes Family Cemetery on Shores Road, Rutherford County, Tennessee. The cemetery is grown up; however the old field stones are still in place. There is no marker indicating which grave belongs to Carter.
Jennie remarried on March 04, 1921 to Robert Thomas Adcock who had lost his wife, Janie Maude Harrison
Adcock in 1919. Mr. Adcock had two children from this marriage. Their children were:
Jefferson Green Adcock
Kansas Elizabeth Adcock
From the union of Jennie and Robert, four children were born:
Robert Allen Adcock
Oreon Milton Adcock
Mary Lou Adcock
Melvin Claxton Adcock
Jennie died on September 01, 1972 in Bedford County, Tennessee and is buried in the Pressgrove Cemetery-
Bedford County, Tennessee (Longview) beside her second husband, Robert Thomas Adcock. |