Mary Lane Don Carlos born Feb 17 1800.
Named after her Gr grandmother - Mary Lane, dau of Richard Lane of Southampton Co VA .
Married May 17 1814 to and first wife of Isaac Bright Hines.
In 1850 was residing in Knox Co TN 051 31st Sub Division.

Polly Carless
in the Tennessee, Compiled Marriages, 1784-1825
Name: Polly Carless
Spouse: Isaac Hines
Marriage Date: 17 May 1814
Marriage County: Knox


Mary Lane Don Carlos was daughter
of Prof. William Carter Don Carlos and Martha
Patsey Vines Don Carlos.
Was Granddaughter of Archelaus Carlos and Fanny.



Following letter of
Marguerite E. Hines
Oldest Granddaughter
1977

"My Great Grandmother"
Mary L. Don Carlos
Born 1800 Died 1863

Isaac Hines, born September 15, 1795 son of William Hines, was a soldier in the War of 1812.

In 1815, Isaac Hines married Mary L. Don Carlos, daughter of Professor William Carter Don Carlos (who was born in Spain but came to Virginia).

Mary Don Carlos, the daughter, was born May 7, 1800 and died 1863.

To Isaac and Mary Don Carlos union was born a son, Archelaus Don Carlos Hines, March 20, 1825. He passed at the age of 96 years in Fresno California in 1921. Archelaus Don Carlos Hines was my Grandfather and I have heard him tell this true story of his mother many times.

Mary Don Carlos Hines rode horse back from Knox County (now Knoxville, Tennessee) to visit her parent's home in Virginia. Horse back was the mode of travel in those days in the 1850's. Mary Don Carlos died in 1863.

Each evening, Mary would stop off at an Inn or a farm house for the night. She would wear a money belt around her waist to pay for her lodging.

One night, she stopped at an Inn after dark. Two men and a woman greeted her. The men took her horse to the corral.

Mary ate her evening mean and climbed a flight of stairs to her room, as she was very tired. She took off her top clothes and climbed into bed.

In the wee hours, she was awakened by the two men's voices talking to the woman on the stairs. The men wanted to kill her, but the woman said she was poor and begged for her life. They went down the stairs.

Later that night, the two men opened her door and came in and removed a body from under her bed. She watched them bury the body in the corral.

Mary stayed in bed later the next morning. When she came down stairs, she told them she over slept. But the truth was she never closed her eyes all night. After breakfast, they brought her horse and she bed them goodbye.

In the fork of the road, a man appeared on horse back. He asked her where she spent the night. She told him at the Inn. He asked her about the accommodations and she replied the food was good and they were nice to her. She recognized the man even though he was disguised. He bid her goodbye and rode off.

Very soon another man appeared at another fork of the road and questioned her. Why was a woman alone riding to Virginia and staying at the Inn? He told her no one had come out of the Inn alive. She told him that was not true and bid him goodbye. She also recognized him even though he was disguised.

The home she was in the next evening was a farm house. She told her story and the man of the house was a law officer. We call them sheriffs.

The next day the Sheriff got a posse together and went to the Inn.

Mary told them to let the lady live as she had saved her life. The posse hung the two men at the corral. They also found several bodies buried there.

This is a true story of my Great Grandmother's experience told by her son Archelaus Don Carlos Hines who was my father's, Samuel Bowman Hines, father.

My Grandfather Archelaus Don Carlos Hines told this story many time to his grandchildren at our large family dinners before he died in 1921 at 96 years old.
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Article of Missouri Don Carlos family--
Author: Ford, J. E. Date of Publication: 1936
Subjects: Moniteau County (Mo.) --
History., Moniteau County (Mo.), Missouri -- Moniteau County

p 354

HISTORY OF MONITEAU COUNTY
Mrs. Fred Bailey
Bernyce Harriet Bailey was born June 21, 1896 at the
old Don Carlos homestead east of Prairie Home. While
present members of the family are reticent concerning it,
the Don Carlos family is believed to have descended from

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the second son of Elizabeth , wife of Phillip V, king
of Spain. Elizabeth's elder son was king of Naples and
Sicily; the second, king of Parma and Tuscany. The treaty
signed in 1739 on the conclusion of the War of the Polish
Succession ceded the territory ruled by the second son to
Austria whereupon the dethroned Don Carlos came to
America. There is no positive proof of his being the pro-
progenitor of the present Don Carlos family, but considerable
circumstantial evidence. The oldest definite history begins
prior to 1800 with three brothers, Carter, William and
Robert C. Don Carlos, thought to be grandchildren or great-
grandchildren of the self exiled king....................