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John Hainline (Henlein) was born December 1760, in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Johannes Valentin Hainline (abt 1722 Coburg, Northern Bavaria, Germany) and Anna Catharina Kuhn. In 1749 Johannes and Anna, along with their infant son Jacob, Set sail from the port of Robberdam, Netherlands, aboard the Platinate ship Isaac and sailed for the colonies. They arrived in Philadelphia on 27 September 1749. They would settle on the Forks of the Yadkin River in western Rowan County, North Carolina. They built a homestead there and eventually acquired a 500 acre plantation. In 1767 Johannes became a citizen and was from that point forward known as John Hainline. He would write his will in 18 May 1775 and passed away shortly after. His wife, Catherine, and children were mentioned in the will including Jacob Henline (1749–1813), Catherine Hainline Cooper Knartzer (1751–1833), Christiane Hainline (1752– ), Christopher Hainline 1754–1824, Henry Hainline (1755–1795), Eva Hainline Booe (1756–1789), Elizabeth Henline Foster (1757– ), John Hainline (1760–1834), George Hainline Sr. (1762–1850) and Abraham Hainline (1768–1842).

Our patriot, John, son of Johannes/John, would serve as a Private from North Carolina, under Captain John Holder. He enlisted on 15 February 1778, in Rowan County, North Carolina. In 1778 he was serving at the siege of Boonesborough (Kentucky). He applied for a soldier’s pension on 2 December 1833, from Montgomery County, Kentucky.¹ Children named in his pension were Jacob, George, Nathaniel, John, Katherine and Daniel. John would marry twice, first to Elizabeth Purdy (1755‐abt 1810) in 1788, in Bourbon County, Kentucky. She was born in Montgomery County and died in Caldwell County, Kentucky. They had eight children; Jacob 1789‐1864, George Washington 1791‐1869, Nathan Matthew 1793‐1840, John 1769‐1861, Catherine Danice 1798‐1888, Mary and 1801‐1828. He then married Suzannah Dumford (1763‐ 1838), in 1784, Dumford, Montgomery County, Kentucky. She was born in Fayette County and died in Montgomery County, Kentucky. They would have nine children; Susannah 1785‐1867, John 1787‐1869, William 1787‐1869, Jesse 1789‐1868, Henry 1791‐1857, George 1796‐1868, David 1799‐1865, Jeremiah 1802‐1862 and Nancy China 1807‐1874. John passed, and was buried, in 1834 in Montgomery County, Kentucky. John would leave a will, dated November of 1828. The will was processed in court in April of 1835, Montgomery County, Kentucky.

Son Nathaniel Matthew Hainline was born 9 December 1793, Montgomery County, Kentucky, and died 30 October 1839, in Mount Sterling, Montgomery County. On 22 April 1821 Nathaniel married Anna Elizabeth Whitsett, in Montgomery County. Anna was born 22 July 1802 and died 17 April 1884, Mount Sterling, Montgomery County. She is buried in the Machpelah Cemetery, Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky. They were the parents of nine children; James MacArthur 1822‐1908, John R 1823‐1905, Samuel M 1825‐1911, Catherine Dorcus 1930‐1914, Susan E 1831‐1861, Franklin Thomas 1832‐1910, George Weedon 1839‐1915, and Bettie 1840‐ . James MacArthur Hainline, son of Nathaniel and Anna, was born 17 Feb 1822 in Montgomery County, Kentucky. He died Blandinsville, McDonough County, Illinois on 10 July 1908. On 17 February 1845, he would marry, in McDonough County, Sarah Bently Willeford, born 15 August 1824, in Kentucky, died in Blandinsville, 29 November 1902. They are buried together in the South Cemetery, Blandinsville. The 1850 census for McDonough County, Illinois, shows that James was a shoemaker, with wife Sarah B, and children Nathaniel G and Mary J. In the 1860 census James was living in Blandinsville, with wife Sarah, and children Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, James, Larance, and Olive. His occupation was listed as sawyer. James and Sarah were the parents of fourteen living children; Nathaniel Gaston, Mary Susan, Elizabeth Ann, Sarah Ellen, James Samuel, Ortho, John Laurence, Olive Dorcas, Orley, Buffy, Marcellus, Ida May.

Son of James and Sarah, James Samuel Hainline, was born 25 December 1854, Blandinsville, McDonough County, Illinois. He died 1 January 1933, in Warren County, Illinois, and is buried in the South Cemetery, Blandinsville. On 22 September 1880, in McDonough County, he would marry Amanda Melissa Gaumer. She was born 29 Jan 1854 in Ohio and died in Blandinsville on 8 July 1899. She is buried in the LaHarpe Cemetery, LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois. The couple were the parents of three daughters, Lida Luvina 1881‐1942, Bessie L 1884‐1964, and Mollie 1886‐1900. “James S Hainline was buried yesterday afternoon in the South cemetery at Blandinsville following services held at the Baptist church there in charge of Rev. H. P. Kelly. The pallbearers were Tommy Britton, Jesse Duncan, Freeman Dorthy, George Hainline, Charles Claybaugh, and Marion Bond.” [Published in The Rock Island (IL) Argus, Wednesday, January 4, 1933]”

Lyda Luvian “Vina” Hainline would marry 1st in 1901, Edward Huston (1882‐1939) and 2nd in 1910, Clarence L Head (1867‐1943). Their daughter, Eula Virginia Head (1911‐2003) would marry Joseph Elmer Kurtz (1904‐1973) in 1929.

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1 State of Kentucky Montgomery County: SS On this 2nd day of December 1833 – Personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid now sitting, John Hainline [sic] a resident of Montgomery County & State of Kentucky aged seventy‐three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832. That he enlisted into the Army of the United States in the year 1778 with Captain John Holder and served in the Regiment of the North Carolina line under the following named officers. He says he enlisted in North Carolina in the month of February – (he thinks the 15th) in the Army of the US in Captain John Holder's Company of Regulars for a term of six months. . . . He says he was at Boonesborough when the siege took place in 1778. He says he was discharged in the August following after having served 6 months the time for which he first enlisted. He says he was living in Roan [Rowan] County North Carolina when he entered the service of the US. He hereby relinquishes ever[y] claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. -"United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24Q-L6H6 : Archives and Records Administration, 1962), roll 7; FHL microfilm 1,319,387. -United States War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29K-2Q74 : 11 March 2016), Ezra Parker, 1812-1815; citing NARA microfilm publication M602 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); roll 159; FHL microfilm 882,677.
-"United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYX-3Y8 : 24 August 2015), Ezra Parker, Royal Oak Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States; citing p. 90, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 209; FHL microfilm 14,797.
-"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVD-R67N : 13 December 2015), Ezra Parker, 1842; Burial, Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan, United States of America, Royal Oak Cemetery; citing record ID 15167043, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. -Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.