This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hFB.2ACE/1046.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi. Here are some details on Hiram Haynes. He was born in 1825 in N Y. Came to Michigan when he was twelve. His parents were Reuben and Maria Haynes. Hiram was one of five children. He lived and worked in Wisconsin for four yrs. He came back to Ingham county, Mich. where he evientually owned 240 acres. He was a farmer. He married Sarah Worden when he was 25, and they had nine children all together. They lost four children and had 5 living children. Morris was the oldest. He managed a good deal of his father's farm. Hiram had Indians living close to his home. He knew them and took them food. They were never hostile to hime or his family,. In fact, the Indians gave to Hiram one of their own babies to raise as his own. Apparently Sarah Haynes did not like having an Indian child to raise. She and Hiram were DIVORCED by 1880. Sarah and the 5 children are listed on the 1870 census, but by 1880, she was living with Morris and Hiram had remarried a woman named Cl! ara and none of his children were living at home. There was a little girl named Ella Thorp living there. Stepchild? Anyway, Harry Haynes(the Indian child) named after a relative?, was sent to live with J. Morris Haynes in Clio, Michigan. This is on the 1880 census of Clio, Mich. Morris and Mary Geer Haynes are listed as Harry's parents on his death cert. Can you check any records about Hiram Haynes's land records and find out about any Indians that lived on his land around 1877, when Harry Haynes was born.. Thanks and God bless.