(The following story was printed in, "A
Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties Missouri,:
Published Chicago, 1901; The Lewis Pub. Company)
"The subject of this
sketch, one of the leading and influential citizens of Barnard,
Missouri, was born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, June 29, 1838,
and is a son of James F. and Rachel (SPEARS) HAINEY, also
natives of Kentucky. His paternal grandparents were James and
Nancy (CRITTENDEN) HAINEY, the latter a cousin of Hon. John J.
CRITTENDEN, of national fame, and also a relative of Thomas
CRITTENDEN, ex-governor of Missouri. In early life the
grandfather, James HAINEY, was a farmer and blacksmith of North
Carolina, but spent his last days in Kentucky as a minister of
the Baptist church. He was never a slave-owner, and was a man
highly respected and esteemed by all who knew him. His old
flint-lock gun, which he carried at the battle of New Orleans
during the war of 1812, is now in possession of our subject and
will be handed down to future generations as a relic. It was
also used by the great-grandfather in the Revolutionary War, and
in killing Indians as well as wild game. In the family of James
HAINEY, Sr., were nine children, namely:
Our subject's maternal grandfather, William SPEARS, was a prominent farmer and slave-owner of Kentucky and an influential Democrat. His children were:
James HAINEY, Jr., the father of our subject,
followed farming in Kentucky until April, 1851, when he removed
with his family to Missouri and entered land and improved a
farm, making it his home until his death in 1862. He was a
Douglas Democrat and a supporter of the Union during the Civil
war. He was a true southern gentlemen and a consistent member of
the Baptist Church. After his death his wife lived with our
subject, where she died in 1894 (probably should be 1892).
Their children were:
Two of the sons were soldiers of the Union
Army during the Civil War.
P. J. HAINEY accompanied his parents on their removal to this state in 1851, and remained at home until reaching manhood. For a time he pursued his studies in a log school house, and through his own exertions has obtained a good practical education. In 1861 he enlisted in a volunteer militia organization to resist Caleb Jackson's attempts at secession. . . . "
The following paragraph referring to
P. J. HAINEY, is excerpted from, "The
Civil War and Nodaway County, Missouri, Part II, Military Data
of 3,041 Civil War Soldiers," by Martha L. Cooper,
1989)
". . . . His command was in this congressional district and he remained most of the time in the vicinity of St. Joseph. In 1864 he enlisted in the 16th Iowa Volunteer Infantry and was with Sherman on the march to the sea. When Lee surrendered, P. J. was ill and in the hospital at Willet's Point, Long Island and from there sent home. While enroute home he heard of Lincoln's death. Mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, June 5, 1865, after serving four years. Was constable, notary, abstract business in Barnard."
(The following story was printed in the, "Illustrated Historical Atlas of Nodaway County Missouri - Containing Maps of Villages, Cities and Townships of the County" Published by the Anderson Publishing Co. 1911, Reprinted 1979 by Unigraphic, Inc.")
"I was born in Pulaski
County, Kentucky, June 29, 1838, and lived there with my
parents, James F. and Rachel HAINEY, until March 15, 1851, when
we started for Missouri with two yoke of oxen and an old-time
crooked wagon-bed, now called box. We meandered along, many days
to Louisville with a tendered-footed team, having been on the
pike several days. In the meantime having traveled about one
hundred and thiry miles, then father concluded to board a
steamer at Louisville.
We came down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to St. Louis, was
aboard the Lexington, by her officers claimed to be the fatest
boat on the river. Accidentally or intentionally we fell in with
a find packet from New Orleans soon after we struck the
Mississippi River; said boat's crew seemed to dispute our title
as the speediest boat, and Oh! such a boat race as we had! It
lasted for several hours and our boat won the race, reaching St.
Louis first. Many had not yet recovered from their scare over
that desperate race. We changed boats at St. Louis, taking an
old slow steamer, named " Anthony Wayne " for
St. Joseph, Missouri. The river had not begun its spring rise
and was low and full of sandbars and snaggs. The prevailing
strong spring winds were facing our boat and the wind and
obstructive sandbars conspired against us to the extent that we
were 11 days from St. Louis to St. Joseph, then a mere village;
and landed there on the evening of April 13, 1851. Pulled out of
St. Joe by ox team on the morning of the 14th for Nodaway
County, reached near the county line south of where Guilford now
is on the evening of the 16th of April.
Father located about three miles southeast of Guilford, where
neighbors were scarce, but they were of the true-blue kind and
thought nothing of going from two to five miles to wait on and
watch with the sick. We had no buggies, spring wagons or horse
wagons of any kind, but worked Buck and Bright, or Tom and
Jersey. (oxen)
We had no laid out or worked roads, but generally meandered
with the ridges and followed Indian trails for crossing of
streams, for in most places the streams were miry and impossible
to cross, but Indian trails always led to gravel or rock
crossings where it was safe fording. A bridge, large or small,
was not to be found in the community.
We got our mail once a week if streams were not too high or snow
not too deep. It was delivered at Whitisville in Andrew County,
carried on horse-back from Savannah. A small sack was ample
space for the weekly mail for all the northern part of Andrew
and southern part of Nodaway counties.
The lands of Nodaway County were nearly all vacant or
government lands, the few pre-emptions that had been made were
without exception along the streams and composed of timber
tracts. Five to fifteen acres composed the farms, twenty-five
acres in cultivation was then a big farm. People required but
little tillable land as they had but little stock and it run at
large and required but little except when snow covered the
ground, and stock of all kinds flourished and fattened on the
range. Mast being abundant, hogs became well fattened, beside
wild game was abundant; all kinds from the deer to the squirrel,
consequently wild meat was plentiful.
The Indians had recently left here and gone to Kansas and
Nebraska and owned and occupied all west of St. Joseph and the
Missouri River, but often returned and camped for the winter
along the streams for the purpose of hunting and trapping, and
their adroit manner of packing their ponies from ears to tail
with cured furs would be interesting at this date.
Schools were rare, few and far between, and not more than three
months term in any year, but some of us walked three miles to
school and did learn a little about spellin', readin', writin'
and 'rithametic, and only a little, for we had to stay at home
and haul wood for two big fireplaces or go to mill one-third of
the school term.
Preaching was almost as scarce as schools and was only had once
every month or two at the log school house. It had a sod top and
the windows had neither sash nor glass. It was heated by a
fireplace and the worshippers sat on seats made of puncheons set
upon lets. But then everybody attended meeting, young and old,
maybe on foot or horseback and often the whole family went in an
ox wagon including the beaux of the daughters. But the daughters
and their beaux were different from this day and did not spread
on so much style. But I think were just as pretty and as honest.
Did much more work, thereby got manual exercise which produced
muscle sufficient for any emergency and resulted in rosy cheeks
and red lips without artificial means. BUT WHAT ANOTHER
SIXTY YEARS WILL BRING FORTH, I DO NOT EVEN PREDICT."
P. J. HAINEY "In
The Newspaper Business"
(Excerpted from a booklet entitled, "Centennial
History, Barnard, Missouri 1870-1970")
"Story of Barnard Newspaper"
(Reprint from The Barnard Bulletin - May 3, 1923)
"The Barnard newspaper has
attained a prominent place among the papers of Nodaway County
and probably no other paper in the county has had as checkered a
career. At times since it was established there has been no
paper at all and at other times it has passed with rapid
succession from owner to owner. Some editors have owned it
several different times and for a considerable length of time. .
. . . .
P. J. HAINEY bought out J. Z. CURNUTT
in 1889, and published a newspaper that was known as "The
Barnard Rustler ." The Rustler was one of the
best known papers in Northwest Missouri and was freely quoted by
other publications. Hainey had his office in a
building south of Hotel Bolin. This building later was destroyed
by fire.
After Hainey had obtained a reasonable
success as an editor, he sold out to Reed Brothers. . . . . .
The Barnard paper has always been non-partisan except during the
time P. J. HAINEY was editor when it inclined
very heavily to the support of the Democratic party. . . .
The early mechanical equipment of the office was very meager,
being just enough to get out the paper and do a little
commercial printing. P. J. HAINEY installed a
cylinder press ran by power, and had the best equipment by far
up to that time. . . . . . "
P. J. HAINEY and wife, Jane MARLOW, had at
least four children. Information about the children has been
obtained from the 1901 biography, Will and Probate papers of P.
J. Hainey, and stones at Masonic Cemetery, Barnard, Nodaway
County, Missouri.