Sarah Lovett Hanes (my great aunt) was born in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia on May 4, 1863, the 3rd of 9 children of parents Robert Hanes and Annie Vessie McNeil. She went by the name of Sadie. Both parents and 8 of the children (the oldest, Ida, stayed in Nova Scotia) moved to Boston in 1880, and changed the surname spelling to Haynes. I have been told this was because of pronunciation, as the name Hanes in Nova Scotia was pronounced "Hines" which the family didn't like.
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| 35 Elmore Street, Roxbury |
In Boston she lived with her parents (her father died in 1883), and later with her sister Lydia Hanes (Haynes) and her husband John Tubman.
In the 1910 and 1920 census Sadie is living at 35 Elmore Street in a boarding house with the Tubman family.
She never married, but became a registered nurse,
On her Declaration of Intent for Citizenship she is described as 5 feet 7 inches, 134 pounds, brown hair. With an oath of allegiance she was granted citizenship on January 18, 1926.
Sadie visited her brother, Thomas N. Haynes (my grandfather) in Arlington, Virginia about 1928 and is pictured with my mother, Norma Haynes, on the house front porch.
She died on October 6, 1934 and is buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain in the Ingram plot with her sister, Lavinia Haynes and her 2nd husband James Ingram.
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