Dr.  William Francis Haynes

He graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York in 1876 after having attended Miami University at Oxford, Ohio.

He first practiced medicine in Lafayette County, Mo., after which he moved to Denison, Texas and practiced for two years.  Later he practiced in Stringtown, presently located in Carter County, Oklahoma, where he met and married Hattie Garner in 1878.

Dr. Haynes operated a mercantile business with his father-in-law, J.D. Garner, as well as running his practice in Stringtown. 

After 10 years in Stringtown, Dr. and Mrs. Haynes moved to Denison.  Hattie Garner Haynes died there in 1892. 

In 1895 he married Mada Pitman.  They moved from Kiowa, I.T. to Davis in 1889 and to the new town of Lindsay in 1902 or 1903.  Dr. Haynes may well have been Lindsay's first doctor.  Others who might have been there before him include Drs. A.P. Keever, T.J. Frost and S.W. Wilson.

Dr. and Mrs. Haynes were among the charter members of the Eastern Star chapter at Lindsay.  He took a prominent role in Masonic affair. 

Dr. Haynes was a Presbyterian.  He served as an elder for 35 years and often stood in for the paster, conducting services and even officiating at funerals.

Children of Dr. and Mrs. Haynes were Ruth, William Franics, Jr., and Naomi. Ruth married Claude Hugh Elswich in 1917 at Lindsay.  William Francis, Jr. married Jimmie Allen at Pauls Valley.  Naomi married Clarence Bailey Embree in 1919 at Purcell.  She passed away that same year.

Mada Pitman Haynes was the daughter of Col. Robert  William Pitman and Mary Elizabeth Cole Pitman.  She was born Sept 19, 1867 in Arlington, Tennessee and died in 1943.