Saturday, October 26, 2013

From Uriah to Hugh...I found him!

My Great Grandfather, Hugh Manning Hines, has been my brick wall since about 1995. It was a family rumor that Hugh Hines was either born in Nova Scotia OR born between Nova Scotia and Maine. That leaves a big hole for someone to interpret his place of birth. Fast forward to last week, October 18, 2013. I was posting on Ancestry.com a query regarding Hugh Manning Hines and stumbled onto someone's posting about Uriah "Hugh" Hines and his wife Emily Cryer. Hmmm, Other than the Uriah, we found a match. Well as it turns out, according to Census records and birth records, Hugh Hines' first name was really Uriah. Uriah married Lydia Smith in Nova Scotia. One day he came home to find Lydia in a compromising position, and was so distraught, that he left her. He took his children to his mother's for her to raise them. He then left Nova Scotia and went to the United States. There was never a record of a divorce. Lydia married the man she had an affair with, stating on the license that she was a widow. Well, since she didn't know what happened to Hugh, she thought it was safe. This could get messy! I need to find a divorce record for Hugh and Lydia, or a marriage record for Hugh and Emily, telling me that one divorced the other. The first place that we find Hugh Manning Hines, is the 1910 Census record, married to Emily Cryer, daughter of Samuel Cryer and Elizabeth Buckley. What I know of Hugh Manning Hines, is from my father, who had the pleasure of his grandparents living with him and his brothers, after their mother, left them and their father. Hugh Manning Hines and his 2nd wife, Emily, are the parents of Phyllis Hines, my dad's mother. Phyllis was born in New Jersey, which it states on the 1920/1930 census records is where Hugh and Emily were married. I haven't found a marriage record for Hugh and Emily yet. Still looking. Hugh died December 26, 1951 and Emily died in Sept 1956. They are both buried at Oakland Cemetery in Medway, Massachusetts.