Our old ministers are fast disappearing from the walks of men. The death of our venerable father, Rev. Andrew Jackson Haynes, was a sad event and a severe shock to the Cumberland Presbyterian of Texas. He devoted over thirty years of arduous and incessant work for the church and her institutions in the State. No minister was better known or more highly appreciated than he. It is right for the world to know how much we Cumberland Presbyterians love and revere the old men who have done such a grand work for the Master, in saving sinners and bettering the condition of mankind. Among all of them we know of no one who deserves a higher esteem or more devoted love than father Haynes. He was born in the State of Mississippi, September 19, 1823. Died in Buffalo Gap, December 13, 1897. When he was a small child his parents moved to Graves County, Ky. He professed religion at Edward's Camp Ground and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in his 19th year. Two years afterward he placed himself under Obion Presbytery as a candidate for the ministry. He immediately Bethel College, at McLemoresville, where he remained as student and teacher for seven years. It was during his stay at college that he laid the foundation for the great and successful work of a long and busy life.
After a thorough preparation for the work to which God had called him, at the age of twenty-nine, on January 29, 1852, he was united in marriage in Miss Melissa Ann Patterson, daughter of an elder of the church and a trustee of the college. This was one of the fortunate marriages among the ministers of our church. She has been a model wife, mother and Christian. Everybody loves mother Haynes. In this same year he moved to Monticello, Ark., to accept the principalship of the State Academy and to plant our church in that place. After three years of hard and successful work at this place, he was called to take charge of the church at Washington, Ark. He labored with great success at this place for five years. Leaving this interesting and important field, he removed to Fannin County, Texas, in 1859, and preached at Honey Grove, Bonham and Shiloh for two years. In 1861, he was called to take charge of the church at Sherman, where he labored for two years with good success. During his pastorate at this place, he held a successful revival at Gainsville and organized the church in this thriving city. His next move was to the beautiful and fertile county of Ellis, where he purchased a farm and settled. He preached in the city of Dallas and built the second church house erected in the city. He preached at Mansfield, Chambers Creek, Ferris and many other places, where he soon had working members and neat church buildings. Ellis County was his home for fifteen years. He removed his family temporarily to Tehuacana to place his children in Trinity University. They remained for three years. While his children were in school he was traveling as financial agent and in the general interest of the University. He did a good work for the University. He left Ellis County in 1884, and settled in the great Abilene country, at Buffalo Gap, where he lived until he crossed the river. For the last thirteen years he has devoted his time and money to advance the interest of his church. He has been especially energetic in building up Buffalo Gap College. His last thoughts and prayers were for its success. No one has done more to give the institution its present standing than Father Haynes.
He and his devoted wife reared and educated four boys and three girls. The eldest, Mrs. Emma Hooker, preceded her father a few months to their eternal home. The others are ladies and gentlemen of high social standing and successful in their life work, all members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and good church workers.
Father Haynes suffered a great deal during the last few years of his life. It was very inconvenient for him to travel, but his will-power and energy were so great that he would go, and as he went, he would preach. He did as much in the interest of Christian education as any man in the State.
His death was not disappointing. He sank, to his rest quietly,
peaceably and consciously. The halo about his death couch was
not unlike that of a setting sun, in a cloudless west. The faculty,
the students of the college and many of his old friends and neighbors
met at the residence at 11 o'clock, and the writer delivered an
oration. His remains were taken to Abilene where they were met
by Dr. Ward and congregation. Dr. Ward preached the funeral. They
laid him quietly away. God bless the widow and orphans.
Buffalo
Gap, Texas.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, April 7, 1898, pages 1264-1265]
1845
Obion
Presbytery - West
Tennessee Synod
1846
Obion
Presbytery - West
Tennessee Synod
1847
Obion
Presbytery - West
Tennessee Synod
1848
Obion
Presbytery - West
Tennessee Synod
1849
Obion
Presbytery - West
Tennessee Synod
1850
Obion
Presbytery - West
Tennessee Synod
1851
Obion
Presbytery - West
Tennessee Synod
1852
Obion
Presbytery - West
Tennessee Synod
[Sept. 27, 1852 lettered
out of Obion
Presbytery]
1853
Bartholomew
Presbytery - Washita
Synod
1854
Bartholomew
Presbytery - Washita
Synod
1855
[March 1855,
lettered out of Bartholomew
Presbytery]
1856
Mt. Prairie
Presbytery - Ouachita
Synod
1857
Mt. Prairie
Presbytery - Ouachita
Synod
1858
Mound
Prairie Presbytery - Ouachita
Synod
1859
1860
White
Rock Presbytery - White
River Synod
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
Commissioner to General Assembly
Tehuacana
Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1866, page 4]
1867
1868
1869
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
1870
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
1871
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1872
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1873
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1874
Red
Oak Presbytery -
Brazos Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1875
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1876
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1877
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1878
Red
Oak Presbytery - Brazos
Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1879
Red
Oak Presbytery - Trinity
Synod
Lancaster, Texas
1880
Red
Oak Presbytery - Trinity
Synod
Ferris, Texas
1881
Red
Oak Presbytery - Trinity
Synod
Ferris, Texas
[Attended
General Assembly]
1882
Red
Oak Presbytery - Trinity
Synod
Ferris, Texas
1883
Red
Oak Presbytery -Trinity
Synod
Ferris, Texas
1884
1885
1886
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Colorado
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1887
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Colorado
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1888
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Colorado
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
[Attended
General Assembly]
1889
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1890
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1891
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1892
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
[Attended
General Assembly]
1893
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1894
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1895
Buffalo
Gap Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1896
Abilene
Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
1897
Abilene
Presbytery - Texas
Synod
Buffalo Gap, Texas
Mortuary List
Name: A.J. Haynes
Occupation:
retired
Presbytery: Abilene
Place of Residence: Buffalo Gap, Tex.
Died:
Dec. 13, 1897, age 74
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1898, page 163]
Andrew Jackson Haynes
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister
born: 19 September 1823 - Mississippi
died:
13 December 1897 - Buffalo Gap, Taylor County, Texas
buried:
Abilene, Taylor County, Texas
Moved: c1835 to Graves County, Kentucky
Candidate:
Sept. 29, 1845-Obion Presbytery-West Tennessee Synod
Licensed:
Sept. 23, 1847-Obion Presbytery-West Tennessee Synod
Ordained:
between March and Sept. 1850-Obion Presbytery-West Tennessee Synod
married: 29 January 1852 - near McLemoresville, Carroll County,
Tennessee
wife: Melissa Ann Patterson
Children of Andrew Jackson Haynes and Melissa Ann Patterson Haynes:
1. Emma Haynes
died: 1897
husband:
? Hooker
2. Andrew Jackson Haynes, Jr.
3. Udona Haynes
husband: J.D. Cullum
4. Frank E. Haynes
5. John R. Haynes
6. Armine Haynes
7. C. Page Haynes