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6 NANCY C. HAINES
When Mary Briggs Haines gave birth to her fourth daughter, Nancy, in 1840 in Hallowell, Maine, she already had seven children between the ages of 1 and 11 in her household to care for. She would have been challenged to give her newborn the attention and care that she deserved. Somehow the challenge was successfully met and Nancy in turn would grow to be a capable helper to her mother as even more members were added to the family over the next 8 years. Nancy would marry a future celebrity and in her relatively short lifetime of only 38 years start to raise one son and two daughters of her own who would continue the growth of the family line.