Ailsa Josephine McGhee ^{2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: 2WN2-67L.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1870 in Pleasant Grove Township, Marion, IA. ⁶ The 1870 census recorded James Haynes, farmer, 33, living with wife Josephine, 35; Walter, 11; Charles, 8; Miles, 7; James, 5; and Scott, 1. The parents were born in Indiana and their children in Iowa. James Sr.'s parents were born in Ohio. Josephine's father was born in Indiana and mother in Kentucky.
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2. Census in 1900 in Sherwood, Washington, OR. ⁷ The 1900 census recorded James M. Haynes, teamster, 54, born Sep 1846, living with wife Alisa J., 55, Feb 1845; sons Miles J., engineer, 27, May 1873; Carey S., telephone operator, 22, Jul 1878; and daughters Anna M., 19, May 1881; and Alisa G., 15, Apr 1885. The parents were born in Indiana, the children in Iowa except Alisa in Dakota. James' parents were born in Ohio. Alisa's father was born in Indiana and mother in Kentucky. The census columns record James and Alisa were married about 1868 and she had birthed 7 children by 1900, all alive that year.

3. Newspaper: Statesman Journal: Suicide of J. O. Haynes, 18 Jan 1906, Salem, Marion, OR. ⁸ SHERWOOD MAN SUICIDES.
SHERWOOD, Or., Jan. 17. -- A telegram from Waitsburg, Wash., yesterday afternoon to Mrs. Haynes, a boarding house keeper here, brought the startling intelligence that her son, J. O. Haynes, station agent and telegraph operator for the O. R. & N. for the past two years at that station, had committed suicide by shooting himself. No cause is known here by his relatives for the desperate act.
Haynes was married and leaves a wife and two small children, three brothers, two sisters and a widowed mother. He was well known here, having learned telegraphy in the railroad office, under the supervision of the local agent, prior to his leaving home.

4. Residence: on 18 Jan 1906 in Sherwood, Washington, OR. ⁸

5. Obituary: The Oregon Daily Journal: obituary of Ailsa Josephine Haynes on 3 Sep 1913 in Portland, Multnomah, OR. ⁵ HAYNES -- In this city Sept. 2, Mrs. Ailsa Josephine Haynes, aged 68 years, 7 months, 2 days. Friends invited to attend the funeral services, which will be held at Holman's parlors, corner Third and Salmon streets, tomorrow (Thursday), at 1 p. m. Remains will be forwarded to Sherwood, Or., where concluding services will be held Friday afternoon.

Ailsa married James M. Haynes, son of Silas Haynes and Margaret Rose, on 19 Dec 1867 in Knoxville, Marion, IA.¹ (James M. Haynes was born in Sep 1846 in , , IN ² and died before 1910 in , , OR.)