Patricia - Got to be a connection between your Samuel HAYNES and my Benjamin Franklin HAYNES whose daughter married Jasper Newton WISE although I haven't found it either. Did you know that a community about 2 miles south of what is now Shongaloo was originally called Wiseville? You might find the following interesting: ".... About "10" of his (James WISE & Permelia MILLER) sons came over to Webster Parish and settled at Wiseville, about two miles south of what is now Shongaloo, Louisiana. One son, J. G. WISE was a doctor, Dover(?) WISE was a preacher, the others were merchants and farmers. The Civil War scattered and took its toll in this family. Two died in service. Dr. G. J. WISE lost his home and slaves while away in war. After returning from fighting, he took his wife and two small children and went over to the present site of Shongaloo, Louisiana and continued practice. At this time, the place was an Indian village, whose highways were cow-trails and deer trails. Later he moved onto a homestead a mile west of town and retired from practice." Sheet obtained from descendant of Giles James WISE, Ralph MILLER, 1991. Benjamin Franklin HAYNES, Jasper Newton WISE and his family remained in the area east of Haynesville. Benjamin F. HAYNES and three of Jasper Newton WISE's children are buried in an almost forgotten cemetery just south of the state line off the road from Haynesville, LA to ElDorado, Arkansas. There were two cemeteries at State Line (aka Mineral Springs), Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, Sec. 6 Twp 23 Range 5 about 2 miles southeast of LA Hwy. #61 at the Arkansas State line. According to "Cemetery Inscriptions of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana Volume III" compiled by Elinor McCalman Seward and Wanda Volentine Head, published by J & W Enterprises, 2838 Jody Lane, Shreveport, Louisiana 71118, these were surveyed on February 16, 1985 with only a few graves located. In one cemetery identified as the State Line Baptist Cemetery, the only marker located was for John M. BROWN 1814-1898. In the other, which they called State Line Methodist Cemetery, they identified three markers. Only one of these was intact in May 1999 when the site was visited by Dot WISE WIRTH and Levelle HAYNES: a four-sided ceramic-coated metal spire with the word WISE on one side and the name of one of three children of Jasper Newton and Martha Caroline HAYNES WISE on each of the other sides: Leona Leoti WISE b. 26 MAY 1879 d. 5 JUL 1884; A. (Alexander) MILO WISE b. 10 MAR 1871 d. 18 OCT 1885; and P. (Philander) Hazellow WISE b. 14 NOV 1873 d. 30 APR 1886. A granite marker for Benjamin F. HAYNES b. 22 - 1817 (father of Martha Caroline) is broken but still at his gravesite about 20 feet north northwest of the WISE marker. The bottom portion of a marker showing the death date of Robert F. HAYNES (4 AUG 1878) along with some other marker fragments is piled with the B. F. HAYNES marker. Apparently the Robert F. HAYNES marker was complete in 1985 as his marker was said to read, Robert F. HAYNES b. 03 SEP 1871 d. 04 AUG 1878. Robert was the son of R. B. HAYNES. As Jasper N. and Mattie WISE were members of the State Line Church which is identified as Baptist and Benj. F. HAYNES was Methodist it seems as if the Baptist and Methodist chose to share a cemetery at State Line just as they did (and do) at Colquitt. <<on 4/13/99, Rontrisha@aol.com wrote to HAYNES-L@rootsweb.com I am the wife of a Samuel HAYNES descendant. ... As previously stated, the town was named after old Sam according to the info the family has handed down and he settled there in about 1855. He sold land in troup Co, Ga in 1854. They settled in Claiborne Parish in a place then called Taylor's Store which was later named Haynesville. They did not remain there but for a year before moving on to around Shongaloo.>>