JAMES HANEY
1776-1855
James Haney was born in Donegal County, Ireland, in 1773 and emigrated to America with his father's family in 1791 He worked on his father's farm. At age nineteen he started teaching school in the winter and continued to teach and to farm. In 1796, he married Hannah Freeborn; and they lived on various farms in Pennsylvania until , in 1815, they and their eight children moved to Richmond (Now Ashland) County Ohio For twenty seven years he taught school in the winter, first in Pannsylvania and afterwards i Ohio. He was a fine mathematician and became a surveyor of outstanding ability.
He was converted in Pennsylvania under the ministry of Rev. Valentine Cook, a foremost preacher of his day. Richard Haney often referred to his father's description of the outstanding ability of this preacher and the value to him in his own ministry of a man that he had never seen or heard. Thus the ministry of Valentine Cook, through its recital by father to son, became a personal heritage and help to him. The power of perpetuating a good thought and projecting it beyond the boundary of this earthly life ought to be a comfort and inspiration to every minister.
James Haney was a very superior man. His close study, mathematical turn of mind, his experience as a surveyor and in the legislature of Ohio had a distinct effect upon his character and, indirectly, upon that of his son, Richard, who greatly loved and admired his father.
In those early days of few books, to be the owner of a full set of lark' Commentaries was to be celebrated. the whole country'side wondered at such affluence and many of the pioneers felt that the mere possession of such books demonstrated the great mental ability and superiority of its owner. As a friend and neighbor, he was loved. His word was law in his comunity. his counsel was souight in matters pertaining to church and the local affairs of the township and county where he lived.
The First Methodist society in Hudson County, Ohio, was formed by James Haney in the township of New London. He was an ordained Methodist local preacher with the spirit and will to labor as an itinerant. As a preacher he was exact in his definitions, clear in his statements, happy in his illustrations and forceful in his delivery..
He made appointments and filled them for almost every Sunday in the year and often traveled fifteen to twenty miles to reach his preaching places. In preaching funerals, administering the sacraments and marrying the young people, this sturdy old Irish preacher went far and wide. One reason for his popularity may possibly have grown out of the fact that he never charged anything for his services. Sometimes he traveled thirty miles and back on horseback to perform a marriage ceremony and absolutely refused any compensation. However, it has never been related that this trait has appeared to a marked degree in any of his ministerial descendants, near or remote.
According to a favorite Haney Family tradition James Haney , when half way through reading the genealogical chapter in Matthew's Gospel for family devotions, said, Closing the Bible, "And so they went on begetting one another to the end of the chapter. Let us Pray."
THE MOVE TO ILLINOIS
In the spring of 1831, two men from Ashland County, Ohio, near the home of James Haney, They were Goode Smith and Ira Bevans, having heard of Illinois went there on a tour of observation, Upon their return, they told such wonderful tales of the richness and productivity of the soil, the beauty and bloom of the vast prairies, that Benjamin Hoyt, brother-in -law of Richard Haney, his brothers (sons of James Haney) John and Thomas Haney, and his uncle Richard Freeborn, determined to see this new country. John Haney was so enraptured with the description given by Smith and Bevans that he traded his Ohio Farm for sixteen of the Land Warrants, given as bounty to soldiers of the War of 1812, and located in what was known as the Military Tract.
The following year these four started for the west on horseback. They traversed the greater part of the Military Tract acquired by John; F Richard Freeborn and Benjamin Hoyt Purchased land in Fulton County, Illinois, and coming back to Ohio they confirmed the Smith-Bevans Report of the new State. The following year (1833) , John Haney and Richard Freeborn moved their families to Illinois, John settling at Rushville, Schuyler County, and Richard four miles north of where Ellisville, Fulton County now stands. On May 1 1834 , Hoyt and James Haney left for Illinois with most of their families. Richard Haney did not expect to move as he had joined the Ohio Conference, but a severe illness prevented his going to his appointment. On November 8, 1834, he and his brother, William, started for Illinois, They arrived about the first of December and found their father and his famiy located in a cabin built during the summer, about four miles east of where Avon, Fulton County, now stands.
At the beginning these cabin homes were very crude. Often they were made without a nail being used in the entire structure. The door hinges and latches were made of wood while the clapboards that covered the roof were held in place by weight poles. These homes sheltered many a happy and contented family and from these crude surroundings came men whose history is known in Church and State not only in our own but also in other lands, It was from such a home, one of the poorer sort, that Abraham Lincoln came, a man whose stature has grown through the ages.
James Haney chronology:
Came to America in 1791 with his parents John Haney and Margaret Basquin (Baskin?)
1796 Married to Hannah Freeborn (who had come with her family on the same boat as the Haneys)
various farms in Pennsylvania
Cross Creek Pennsylvania
1815 Moved from Pennsylvania to Richland (now Ashland Co) Ohio with 8 children:
1.John 1798
2 Thomas 1800
3 Mary 1802
4 Elizabeth 1803
5 Hanna 1805
6 James JR 1810
7 William 1811
8 Rev Richard 1812
taught school both in PA and OH
surveyor and twice elect to the OHIO legislature
1815 -1821 in Ashland Ohio, 4 more children:
9 George 1815
10 Hannah 1815
11 Joshua 1817
12 Freeborn 1821
10 Aug 1821 Hannah Freeborn his first wife and mother of twelve children dies in childbirth.
06 Jan 1824 Marries Mary (Polly) Bevans:
two children;
1. Milton Lorenzo 1825
2. Henry 1827
1834 moved to Fulton County Illinois went with his family in a lumber wagon and it took six weeks to make the journey.
Said to have died of Paralysis following a stroke
This is from a document written around 1889 by Richard Haney (the eighth child of James Haney and Hannah Freeborn) and His son-in-Law George Rutledge Palmer: I have put paragraphs in for clarity.
Rev James Haney was twice married, His first wife was Hannah Freeborn by whom he had twelve children. His second wife was Mary Bevans by whom he had two sons. (Milton and Henry)
1776-1855
James Haney was born in Donegal County, Ireland, in 1773 and emigrated to America with his father's family in 1791 He worked on his father's farm. At age nineteen he started teaching school in the winter and continued to teach and to farm. In 1796, he married Hannah Freeborn; and they lived on various farms in Pennsylvania until , in 1815, they and their eight children moved to Richmond (Now Ashland) County Ohio For twenty seven years he taught school in the winter, first in Pannsylvania and afterwards i Ohio. He was a fine mathematician and became a surveyor of outstanding ability.
He was converted in Pennsylvania under the ministry of Rev. Valentine Cook, a foremost preacher of his day. Richard Haney often referred to his father's description of the outstanding ability of this preacher and the value to him in his own ministry of a man that he had never seen or heard. Thus the ministry of Valentine Cook, through its recital by father to son, became a personal heritage and help to him. The power of perpetuating a good thought and projecting it beyond the boundary of this earthly life ought to be a comfort and inspiration to every minister.
James Haney was a very superior man. His close study, mathematical turn of mind, his experience as a surveyor and in the legislature of Ohio had a distinct effect upon his character and, indirectly, upon that of his son, Richard, who greatly loved and admired his father.
In those early days of few books, to be the owner of a full set of lark' Commentaries was to be celebrated. the whole country'side wondered at such affluence and many of the pioneers felt that the mere possession of such books demonstrated the great mental ability and superiority of its owner. As a friend and neighbor, he was loved. His word was law in his comunity. his counsel was souight in matters pertaining to church and the local affairs of the township and county where he lived.
The First Methodist society in Hudson County, Ohio, was formed by James Haney in the township of New London. He was an ordained Methodist local preacher with the spirit and will to labor as an itinerant. As a preacher he was exact in his definitions, clear in his statements, happy in his illustrations and forceful in his delivery..
He made appointments and filled them for almost every Sunday in the year and often traveled fifteen to twenty miles to reach his preaching places. In preaching funerals, administering the sacraments and marrying the young people, this sturdy old Irish preacher went far and wide. One reason for his popularity may possibly have grown out of the fact that he never charged anything for his services. Sometimes he traveled thirty miles and back on horseback to perform a marriage ceremony and absolutely refused any compensation. However, it has never been related that this trait has appeared to a marked degree in any of his ministerial descendants, near or remote.
According to a favorite Haney Family tradition James Haney , when half way through reading the genealogical chapter in Matthew's Gospel for family devotions, said, Closing the Bible, "And so they went on begetting one another to the end of the chapter. Let us Pray."
THE MOVE TO ILLINOIS
In the spring of 1831, two men from Ashland County, Ohio, near the home of James Haney, They were Goode Smith and Ira Bevans, having heard of Illinois went there on a tour of observation, Upon their return, they told such wonderful tales of the richness and productivity of the soil, the beauty and bloom of the vast prairies, that Benjamin Hoyt, brother-in -law of Richard Haney, his brothers (sons of James Haney) John and Thomas Haney, and his uncle Richard Freeborn, determined to see this new country. John Haney was so enraptured with the description given by Smith and Bevans that he traded his Ohio Farm for sixteen of the Land Warrants, given as bounty to soldiers of the War of 1812, and located in what was known as the Military Tract.
The following year these four started for the west on horseback. They traversed the greater part of the Military Tract acquired by John; F Richard Freeborn and Benjamin Hoyt Purchased land in Fulton County, Illinois, and coming back to Ohio they confirmed the Smith-Bevans Report of the new State. The following year (1833) , John Haney and Richard Freeborn moved their families to Illinois, John settling at Rushville, Schuyler County, and Richard four miles north of where Ellisville, Fulton County now stands. On May 1 1834 , Hoyt and James Haney left for Illinois with most of their families. Richard Haney did not expect to move as he had joined the Ohio Conference, but a severe illness prevented his going to his appointment. On November 8, 1834, he and his brother, William, started for Illinois, They arrived about the first of December and found their father and his famiy located in a cabin built during the summer, about four miles east of where Avon, Fulton County, now stands.
At the beginning these cabin homes were very crude. Often they were made without a nail being used in the entire structure. The door hinges and latches were made of wood while the clapboards that covered the roof were held in place by weight poles. These homes sheltered many a happy and contented family and from these crude surroundings came men whose history is known in Church and State not only in our own but also in other lands, It was from such a home, one of the poorer sort, that Abraham Lincoln came, a man whose stature has grown through the ages.
James Haney chronology:
Came to America in 1791 with his parents John Haney and Margaret Basquin (Baskin?)
1796 Married to Hannah Freeborn (who had come with her family on the same boat as the Haneys)
various farms in Pennsylvania
Cross Creek Pennsylvania
1815 Moved from Pennsylvania to Richland (now Ashland Co) Ohio with 8 children:
1.John 1798
2 Thomas 1800
3 Mary 1802
4 Elizabeth 1803
5 Hanna 1805
6 James JR 1810
7 William 1811
8 Rev Richard 1812
taught school both in PA and OH
surveyor and twice elect to the OHIO legislature
1815 -1821 in Ashland Ohio, 4 more children:
9 George 1815
10 Hannah 1815
11 Joshua 1817
12 Freeborn 1821
10 Aug 1821 Hannah Freeborn his first wife and mother of twelve children dies in childbirth.
06 Jan 1824 Marries Mary (Polly) Bevans:
two children;
1. Milton Lorenzo 1825
2. Henry 1827
1834 moved to Fulton County Illinois went with his family in a lumber wagon and it took six weeks to make the journey.
Said to have died of Paralysis following a stroke
This is from a document written around 1889 by Richard Haney (the eighth child of James Haney and Hannah Freeborn) and His son-in-Law George Rutledge Palmer: I have put paragraphs in for clarity.
Rev James Haney was twice married, His first wife was Hannah Freeborn by whom he had twelve children. His second wife was Mary Bevans by whom he had two sons. (Milton and Henry)
JAMES HANEY
1776-1855
James Haney was born in Donegal County, Ireland, in 1773 and emigrated to America with his father's family in 1791 He worked on his father's farm. At age nineteen he started teaching school in the winter and continued to teach and to farm. In 1796, he married Hannah Freeborn; and they lived on various farms in Pennsylvania until , in 1815, they and their eight children moved to Richmond (Now Ashland) County Ohio For twenty seven years he taught school in the winter, first in Pannsylvania and afterwards i Ohio. He was a fine mathematician and became a surveyor of outstanding ability.
He was converted in Pennsylvania under the ministry of Rev. Valentine Cook, a foremost preacher of his day. Richard Haney often referred to his father's description of the outstanding ability of this preacher and the value to him in his own ministry of a man that he had never seen or heard. Thus the ministry of Valentine Cook, through its recital by father to son, became a personal heritage and help to him. The power of perpetuating a good thought and projecting it beyond the boundary of this earthly life ought to be a comfort and inspiration to every minister.
James Haney was a very superior man. His close study, mathematical turn of mind, his experience as a surveyor and in the legislature of Ohio had a distinct effect upon his character and, indirectly, upon that of his son, Richard, who greatly loved and admired his father.
In those early days of few books, to be the owner of a full set of lark' Commentaries was to be celebrated. the whole country'side wondered at such affluence and many of the pioneers felt that the mere possession of such books demonstrated the great mental ability and superiority of its owner. As a friend and neighbor, he was loved. His word was law in his comunity. his counsel was souight in matters pertaining to church and the local affairs of the township and county where he lived.
The First Methodist society in Hudson County, Ohio, was formed by James Haney in the township of New London. He was an ordained Methodist local preacher with the spirit and will to labor as an itinerant. As a preacher he was exact in his definitions, clear in his statements, happy in his illustrations and forceful in his delivery..
He made appointments and filled them for almost every Sunday in the year and often traveled fifteen to twenty miles to reach his preaching places. In preaching funerals, administering the sacraments and marrying the young people, this sturdy old Irish preacher went far and wide. One reason for his popularity may possibly have grown out of the fact that he never charged anything for his services. Sometimes he traveled thirty miles and back on horseback to perform a marriage ceremony and absolutely refused any compensation. However, it has never been related that this trait has appeared to a marked degree in any of his ministerial descendants, near or remote.
According to a favorite Haney Family tradition James Haney , when half way through reading the genealogical chapter in Matthew's Gospel for family devotions, said, Closing the Bible, "And so they went on begetting one another to the end of the chapter. Let us Pray."
THE MOVE TO ILLINOIS
In the spring of 1831, two men from Ashland County, Ohio, near the home of James Haney, They were Goode Smith and Ira Bevans, having heard of Illinois went there on a tour of observation, Upon their return, they told such wonderful tales of the richness and productivity of the soil, the beauty and bloom of the vast prairies, that Benjamin Hoyt, brother-in -law of Richard Haney, his brothers (sons of James Haney) John and Thomas Haney, and his uncle Richard Freeborn, determined to see this new country. John Haney was so enraptured with the description given by Smith and Bevans that he traded his Ohio Farm for sixteen of the Land Warrants, given as bounty to soldiers of the War of 1812, and located in what was known as the Military Tract.
The following year these four started for the west on horseback. They traversed the greater part of the Military Tract acquired by John; F Richard Freeborn and Benjamin Hoyt Purchased land in Fulton County, Illinois, and coming back to Ohio they confirmed the Smith-Bevans Report of the new State. The following year (1833) , John Haney and Richard Freeborn moved their families to Illinois, John settling at Rushville, Schuyler County, and Richard four miles north of where Ellisville, Fulton County now stands. On May 1 1834 , Hoyt and James Haney left for Illinois with most of their families. Richard Haney did not expect to move as he had joined the Ohio Conference, but a severe illness prevented his going to his appointment. On November 8, 1834, he and his brother, William, started for Illinois, They arrived about the first of December and found their father and his famiy located in a cabin built during the summer, about four miles east of where Avon, Fulton County, now stands.
At the beginning these cabin homes were very crude. Often they were made without a nail being used in the entire structure. The door hinges and latches were made of wood while the clapboards that covered the roof were held in place by weight poles. These homes sheltered many a happy and contented family and from these crude surroundings came men whose history is known in Church and State not only in our own but also in other lands, It was from such a home, one of the poorer sort, that Abraham Lincoln came, a man whose stature has grown through the ages.
James Haney chronology:
Came to America in 1791 with his parents John Haney and Margaret Basquin (Baskin?)
1796 Married to Hannah Freeborn (who had come with her family on the same boat as the Haneys)
various farms in Pennsylvania
Cross Creek Pennsylvania
1815 Moved from Pennsylvania to Richland (now Ashland Co) Ohio with 8 children:
1.John 1798
2 Thomas 1800
3 Mary 1802
4 Elizabeth 1803
5 Hanna 1805
6 James JR 1810
7 William 1811
8 Rev Richard 1812
taught school both in PA and OH
surveyor and twice elect to the OHIO legislature
1815 -1821 in Ashland Ohio, 4 more children:
9 George 1815
10 Hannah 1815
11 Joshua 1817
12 Freeborn 1821
10 Aug 1821 Hannah Freeborn his first wife and mother of twelve children dies in childbirth.
06 Jan 1824 Marries Mary (Polly) Bevans:
two children;
1. Milton Lorenzo 1825
2. Henry 1827
1834 moved to Fulton County Illinois went with his family in a lumber wagon and it took six weeks to make the journey.
Said to have died of Paralysis following a stroke
This is from a document written around 1889 by Richard Haney (the eighth child of James Haney and Hannah Freeborn) and His son-in-Law George Rutledge Palmer: I have put paragraphs in for clarity.
Rev James Haney was twice married, His first wife was Hannah Freeborn by whom he had twelve children. His second wife was Mary Bevans by whom he had two sons. (Milton and Henry)
1776-1855
James Haney was born in Donegal County, Ireland, in 1773 and emigrated to America with his father's family in 1791 He worked on his father's farm. At age nineteen he started teaching school in the winter and continued to teach and to farm. In 1796, he married Hannah Freeborn; and they lived on various farms in Pennsylvania until , in 1815, they and their eight children moved to Richmond (Now Ashland) County Ohio For twenty seven years he taught school in the winter, first in Pannsylvania and afterwards i Ohio. He was a fine mathematician and became a surveyor of outstanding ability.
He was converted in Pennsylvania under the ministry of Rev. Valentine Cook, a foremost preacher of his day. Richard Haney often referred to his father's description of the outstanding ability of this preacher and the value to him in his own ministry of a man that he had never seen or heard. Thus the ministry of Valentine Cook, through its recital by father to son, became a personal heritage and help to him. The power of perpetuating a good thought and projecting it beyond the boundary of this earthly life ought to be a comfort and inspiration to every minister.
James Haney was a very superior man. His close study, mathematical turn of mind, his experience as a surveyor and in the legislature of Ohio had a distinct effect upon his character and, indirectly, upon that of his son, Richard, who greatly loved and admired his father.
In those early days of few books, to be the owner of a full set of lark' Commentaries was to be celebrated. the whole country'side wondered at such affluence and many of the pioneers felt that the mere possession of such books demonstrated the great mental ability and superiority of its owner. As a friend and neighbor, he was loved. His word was law in his comunity. his counsel was souight in matters pertaining to church and the local affairs of the township and county where he lived.
The First Methodist society in Hudson County, Ohio, was formed by James Haney in the township of New London. He was an ordained Methodist local preacher with the spirit and will to labor as an itinerant. As a preacher he was exact in his definitions, clear in his statements, happy in his illustrations and forceful in his delivery..
He made appointments and filled them for almost every Sunday in the year and often traveled fifteen to twenty miles to reach his preaching places. In preaching funerals, administering the sacraments and marrying the young people, this sturdy old Irish preacher went far and wide. One reason for his popularity may possibly have grown out of the fact that he never charged anything for his services. Sometimes he traveled thirty miles and back on horseback to perform a marriage ceremony and absolutely refused any compensation. However, it has never been related that this trait has appeared to a marked degree in any of his ministerial descendants, near or remote.
According to a favorite Haney Family tradition James Haney , when half way through reading the genealogical chapter in Matthew's Gospel for family devotions, said, Closing the Bible, "And so they went on begetting one another to the end of the chapter. Let us Pray."
THE MOVE TO ILLINOIS
In the spring of 1831, two men from Ashland County, Ohio, near the home of James Haney, They were Goode Smith and Ira Bevans, having heard of Illinois went there on a tour of observation, Upon their return, they told such wonderful tales of the richness and productivity of the soil, the beauty and bloom of the vast prairies, that Benjamin Hoyt, brother-in -law of Richard Haney, his brothers (sons of James Haney) John and Thomas Haney, and his uncle Richard Freeborn, determined to see this new country. John Haney was so enraptured with the description given by Smith and Bevans that he traded his Ohio Farm for sixteen of the Land Warrants, given as bounty to soldiers of the War of 1812, and located in what was known as the Military Tract.
The following year these four started for the west on horseback. They traversed the greater part of the Military Tract acquired by John; F Richard Freeborn and Benjamin Hoyt Purchased land in Fulton County, Illinois, and coming back to Ohio they confirmed the Smith-Bevans Report of the new State. The following year (1833) , John Haney and Richard Freeborn moved their families to Illinois, John settling at Rushville, Schuyler County, and Richard four miles north of where Ellisville, Fulton County now stands. On May 1 1834 , Hoyt and James Haney left for Illinois with most of their families. Richard Haney did not expect to move as he had joined the Ohio Conference, but a severe illness prevented his going to his appointment. On November 8, 1834, he and his brother, William, started for Illinois, They arrived about the first of December and found their father and his famiy located in a cabin built during the summer, about four miles east of where Avon, Fulton County, now stands.
At the beginning these cabin homes were very crude. Often they were made without a nail being used in the entire structure. The door hinges and latches were made of wood while the clapboards that covered the roof were held in place by weight poles. These homes sheltered many a happy and contented family and from these crude surroundings came men whose history is known in Church and State not only in our own but also in other lands, It was from such a home, one of the poorer sort, that Abraham Lincoln came, a man whose stature has grown through the ages.
James Haney chronology:
Came to America in 1791 with his parents John Haney and Margaret Basquin (Baskin?)
1796 Married to Hannah Freeborn (who had come with her family on the same boat as the Haneys)
various farms in Pennsylvania
Cross Creek Pennsylvania
1815 Moved from Pennsylvania to Richland (now Ashland Co) Ohio with 8 children:
1.John 1798
2 Thomas 1800
3 Mary 1802
4 Elizabeth 1803
5 Hanna 1805
6 James JR 1810
7 William 1811
8 Rev Richard 1812
taught school both in PA and OH
surveyor and twice elect to the OHIO legislature
1815 -1821 in Ashland Ohio, 4 more children:
9 George 1815
10 Hannah 1815
11 Joshua 1817
12 Freeborn 1821
10 Aug 1821 Hannah Freeborn his first wife and mother of twelve children dies in childbirth.
06 Jan 1824 Marries Mary (Polly) Bevans:
two children;
1. Milton Lorenzo 1825
2. Henry 1827
1834 moved to Fulton County Illinois went with his family in a lumber wagon and it took six weeks to make the journey.
Said to have died of Paralysis following a stroke
This is from a document written around 1889 by Richard Haney (the eighth child of James Haney and Hannah Freeborn) and His son-in-Law George Rutledge Palmer: I have put paragraphs in for clarity.
Rev James Haney was twice married, His first wife was Hannah Freeborn by whom he had twelve children. His second wife was Mary Bevans by whom he had two sons. (Milton and Henry)
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