Rev John Haynie

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Rev John Haynie

Birth
Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
Death
26 Aug 1860 (aged 74)
Rutersville, Fayette County, Texas, USA
Burial
La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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From the Haynie genealogy compiled by Loyce Haynie Rossman:

Rev. John Haynie preached the FIRST sermon ever heard in Austin, Texas, he was one of the nine Methodist ministers who organized the very FIRST Texas Meth. Conference in 1840, he was elected as FIRST Chaplain of the Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1839 and served for several sessions, performed the FIRST marriage ceremony in Travis County, Texas, was Agent for the Rutersville College (the acknowledged FIRST institution of higher learning in Texas) for several years. Rev. John Haynie was Chaplain of the Constitutional Convention in 1845 when it met to adopt plans for annexation; was also Chaplain of the State Legislature of the State of Texas following annexation in 1845; preached the FIRST Protestant sermon delivered in Corpus Christi. His name is still on the cornerstone (in 1963) as the FIRST pastor of the First Methodist Church of Austin, Texas. His picture hangs in the foyer.

He died in Rutersville in 1860 proclaiming "All is well", and pointing skyward.

There is a Rev. John Haynie Chapter DRT, located in Madisonville, TX. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txrvhdrt/
From the Haynie genealogy compiled by Loyce Haynie Rossman:

Rev. John Haynie preached the FIRST sermon ever heard in Austin, Texas, he was one of the nine Methodist ministers who organized the very FIRST Texas Meth. Conference in 1840, he was elected as FIRST Chaplain of the Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1839 and served for several sessions, performed the FIRST marriage ceremony in Travis County, Texas, was Agent for the Rutersville College (the acknowledged FIRST institution of higher learning in Texas) for several years. Rev. John Haynie was Chaplain of the Constitutional Convention in 1845 when it met to adopt plans for annexation; was also Chaplain of the State Legislature of the State of Texas following annexation in 1845; preached the FIRST Protestant sermon delivered in Corpus Christi. His name is still on the cornerstone (in 1963) as the FIRST pastor of the First Methodist Church of Austin, Texas. His picture hangs in the foyer.

He died in Rutersville in 1860 proclaiming "All is well", and pointing skyward.

There is a Rev. John Haynie Chapter DRT, located in Madisonville, TX. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txrvhdrt/

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