The obituaries in newspapers have quite a bit of information. I found this obituary for my great-grandfather, John Hines in the Essex Free Press Archives:
From my great-grandfather's obituary I have secondary proof that:
- John Hines' father was Benjamin and he had seven brothers and one sister, just as the family census for Benjamin Haines in Niagara Township, Lincoln County in 1851 and 1861 show.
- He was born and grew up in Niagara Township, Lincoln County.
- Before John Haines was married to …