Freestone County, Texas Biographies Biography of Dr. William Haynie (Sep 14, 1844-Mar 8, 1922, buried at Buffalo Cemetery in Leon County, Texas) A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893; pages 477 William Haynie, M. D., one of the leading physicians of Buffalo, Leon county, Texas, was born in Meriwether county, Georgia, September 14, 1844 [1843 according to headstone], and was the eldest son of A. B. and Mary E. (Smith) Haynie, natives of Georgia. The Haynie family came originally from Ireland to America before the Revolutionary war, settling in Virginia. The great-grandfather of our subject on the paternal side engaged in the war of independence, during which he lost his life in Virginia. The grandfather of our subject was in the war of 1812, but the father, as far as is known, did not have any military record. During the war of 1860 he was a planter in Alabama, where he had removed after marriage, but in 1878 came to Texas and landed in this county, later removing to Freestone county, where he died in 1886, aged seventy-two. His wife died in 1882, aged fifty-four. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and reared a family of three children: Our subject, Elbridge and C. C., both of the latter being farmers of Freestone county. Our subject received his literary education in Chunnenuggee Ridge, Alabama, and in 1861 engaged in the drug business at Columbus, Georgia, where he also read medicine for a time, remaining there until the close of the war, when he entered the University of New Orleans, continuing through the winter of 1866-'67 and graduating in the class of 1867-'68 at the medical school at Augusta, Georgia. He first practiced his profession in Alabama, removing from there to this State in 1878 and locating at Avant Prairie, in Freestone county. In 1883 he removed to Alexander, Erath county, where he practiced for two years, then returned to Freestone county, and removed from there to this place [Buffalo, Texas] in 1891. Here he has since resided, following his chosen profession. Besides the practice of medicine Dr. Haynie is extensively engaged in farming, owning a fine place in Freestone county of 484 acres, also 208 acres at Avant Prairie, and another farm near Luna, in the timber. He has 260 acres very well improved with regard to buildings, fencing and cultivation of the fields. During the war Dr. Haynie belonged to Company 1, Third Georgia Cavalry, under General Wheeler, participating in the battles of Chickamauga, Tullahoma, Morris- town, Knoxville, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and was captured near Calhoun, Georgia, and sent to Alton, Illinois, for four months, and from there to Camp Douglass, where he was retained until the close of the war. As before stated, after the surrender he graduated and commenced the practice of his profession. Dr. Haynie was married in 1874 to Miss Ella Moore, of Alabama, a daughter of W. A. and Mary (Paramore) Moore, natives respectively of North Carolina and Georgia. Five children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Haynie: William; Franklin died June 1878; Minnie M.; James; and Eddie. Dr. Haynie and wife are both members of Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is connected with the Freestone County Medical Board, and a member of Buffalo Lodge, No. 554, A.F. & A.M.