MySource:[email protected]/Maude Centers interview

In an interview with Maude Haines Centers about 1960, TY Tabor received the following information from a Bible Miss Maude (also known as Granny Centers) referred to. The present location of the Bible is currently unknown and a photocopy was not made of the Bible records. It is unknown how each person was listed and if the death dates and married names were written in the Bible. The information as provided on the Personal History Sheet of William Christopher Haines #H-4 complied by TY Tabor (currently in the possession of Bill Napier) is as follows:

William Christopher Haines b. 11/8/1834 d. 6/8/1906 
Alazar (Eliza Richey) Haines b. 10/4/1835 d. 3/26/1859 m. 5/1/1856 
Mary M. Haines b. 8/12/1859 d. 10/9/1858 
Unnamed Hains b. 3/13/1857 d. 4/2/1857 
Cynthia Thompson Haines, came from IL, b. 1/28/1846 d. 3/6/1905 
William S. Haines b. 3/4/1860 
Ira K. Haines b. 7/27/1863 d. 7/8/1924 (Cresent HIll) 
Charles M. Haines b. 12/15/1864 
Thomas S. Haines b. 1/23/1867 d. 10/24/1947 (Cresent Hill) 
 Willie Haines b. 7/26/1869 (d. 7/7/1938 Bethlehem) 
Ida Haines Weaver b. 7/26/1869 d. 12/5/1917  (Sam Weaver Farm) 
John F. Haines b. 6/11/1873 (d. 5/6/1954 Indianapolis) 
Emma Dale Centers b. 12/13/1876 d. 4/7/1954 (Hopewell) 
Samuel Haines b. 2/28/1878 d. 5/5/1908 (Conyard Centers Farm) 
George Haines b. 5/8/1881 d. 7/11/1906 (Eddyville) 
Maude Haines Centers b. 3/31/1884 d. 8/3/1963 (Cedar Cross) 
Eddie F. Haines  b. 1/25/1888 d. 10/23/1966 (Hopewell) 

• information in parentheses handwritten later on the Personal History Sheet

of William Christopher Haines #H-4)

REGISTER OF DEATHS-KY State Penitentiary 1906 July 11; Geo. Haines; age 24; color WM; Crim: Det Woman; County Allen; Received May 2-06; term 2 yr.; hour 9pm; cause Typhoid fever

*the handwriting on the Register of Deaths makes Haines look like Hames* 

According to an interview TY Tabor conducted with Maude Haines Centers, the family did not claim the body, and George is buried in an unmarked grave in Eddyville, KY

MRS. EMMA D. CENTERS

Mrs. Emma D. Centers, 77, died at 11:25 pm April 7 at her home in the 

Hopewell Community. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Odell Willoughby and Rev. Durwood Garmon at Hopewell Baptist Church at two o'clock Sunday afternoon. Burial was in Hopewell Cemetery. Mrs. Centers was a native of this county, born December 18, 1876, daughter of the late W.F. and Cynthia Thompson Hanes. She is survived by her husband, Mr. W.E. Centers, and daughter, Mrs. E.W. Lawson, both of Scottsville, Rt. 4; one son Truman Centers, Olmstead Falls, Ohio, and one brother, Ed Haines, Dunlap, Tennessee. Six grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive.

 (name of paper and date are omitted from clipping found in the scrapbook 

collection of Erskine Garrison at the Allen Co KY Historical Society)

*It is interesting to note that Emma's sister Maude Centers d. 1963 and 

brother John F d. 5/1954 are not listed as survivors*