BIO:  HAYNES, Francis M., s/o John & Lavina (Sapp) Haynes

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

HAYNES   SAPP   BURKETT   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Washington Twp., page 770

FRANCIS M. HAYNES, attorney at law, of Washington, Ind., was born in Lawrence
County, this State, November 27, 1845, and is the son of John and Lavina
(Sapp) Haynes, natives, respectively, of Kentucky and Maryland, and of Irish
and German descent.  John Haynes removed to Daviess County with his family
in 1849, and located on a farm in Bogard Township, where he resided until
his death July 22, 1875.  Francis M. was reared on a farm, and secured a good
literary education, preparing himself for teaching, which profession he
followed for two years.  At the age of twenty he began studying Blackstone
and in 1872 came to this city and read law in the office of Judge James T.
Perce.  He was admitted to the Daviess County bar in 1878, and formed a
partnership with his preceptor (Perce) and practiced law with him until his
removal from the city in 1880.  He then practiced with Levi Reeves until 1883, 
when he continued by himeslf until 1885, and then formed a partnership with
A.M. Hardy, and the firm stands among the foremost ranks in the legal 
profession to-day. January 31, 1865, he married Matilda J. Burkett, a native
of the county.  Mr. Haynes is a Republican in politics, and takes an active
interest in the local campaigns in the county.  In September, 1861, he
enlisted as a private in Company G, Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
serving in this and Company I, Sixty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the
war of the Rebellion until July 13, 1865.  He is a member of the Encampment
of I.O.O.F. and G.A.R.  He was wounded by concussion of a shell at the
battle of Resaca, Ga., producing spinal meningitis from which he is still
disabled.  He receives a pension from the Government.
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