John Henry Haney was born in his father and mothers home. He attended Appleby school and worked on his fathers farm. When he finished school and had earned some money he bought and ran a store in Appleby for about a year. Everyone called him "Henry". He sold the store to M. T. Peterson who was a cousin.
He went to Nacogdoches and he bought a store that had a gas pump (then there was only
one octane of gasoline and it just took one pump). In those days, when you used the word pump that was exactly what it was. You pumped gas with a manual pump up into a glass container and it measured the amount of gas. Then you had a handle with a hose on it attached to the bottom part of the container and when you released the handle on the end of the hose the gas would flow by gravity down to the gas tank on the car or truck or to can. Behind their store there were some small cabins. Today we would call this a motel but then it was known as a tourist court. He bought this in 1933 and ran it for that year and most of 1934. This was right in the middle of the Great Depression. Times were hard and very few people could get any money. R. B. said that his daddy moved them back to his farm place north of Appleby where they could raise a crop .
Henry was a Christian and a member of Bethel Baptist Church.
Henry lived to be 84 years , 1 month and 12 days old.
Submitted by J. B. Haney as told by R.B. Haney his son>
John Henry Haney was born in his father and mothers home. He attended Appleby school and worked on his fathers farm. When he finished school and had earned some money he bought and ran a store in Appleby for about a year. Everyone called him "Henry". He sold the store to M. T. Peterson who was a cousin.
He went to Nacogdoches and he bought a store that had a gas pump (then there was only
one octane of gasoline and it just took one pump). In those days, when you used the word pump that was exactly what it was. You pumped gas with a manual pump up into a glass container and it measured the amount of gas. Then you had a handle with a hose on it attached to the bottom part of the container and when you released the handle on the end of the hose the gas would flow by gravity down to the gas tank on the car or truck or to can. Behind their store there were some small cabins. Today we would call this a motel but then it was known as a tourist court. He bought this in 1933 and ran it for that year and most of 1934. This was right in the middle of the Great Depression. Times were hard and very few people could get any money. R. B. said that his daddy moved them back to his farm place north of Appleby where they could raise a crop .
Henry was a Christian and a member of Bethel Baptist Church.
Henry lived to be 84 years , 1 month and 12 days old.
Submitted by J. B. Haney as told by R.B. Haney his son>
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