SIXTH GENERATION

584. Mary Haines Thorne was born on 18 Dec 1794 in Haddonfield, Gloucester Co, NJ. She was buried in 1868 in Friends Burial Ground, Baltimore, Maryland. She died on 15 Oct 1868 in Rossville, Baltimore County, MD. Philip V. Thorne Notes:

See file for transcript of marriage certificate of Joshua Stokes Pine and Mary H. Thorn. In 1902 was in the possession of Elizabeth Thorn Roberts of Emmorton in the state of Maryland, who was the only living child. Mary was the oldest daughter and child of Samuel and Sarah (Collins) Thorn was born in New Jersey, 12/18/1794, and lived 74 years, dying on
10/15/1868. Her life was shadowed with many little clouds that did not always have the "silver lining" attributed to them by the poetically inclined views of some people; yet with all her trials, she kept up a willing heart with ready hands, and a patience that carried her to the end of her life. She had a large family of her own to look after and care for besides the responsible task of guiding aright the growing minds and wayward footsteps of others who spent many days of their childhood and youth in her household calling her home theirs. Her granddaughter, Ellen Avis Pine, says of her, "My Grandmother Pine (the only grandmother I knew) was so patient with the hard-working for the five large boys, and the one little frail daughter. As a child, I thought she was wonderful". It is said that Mary H. Pine had a homely face. but that is a fact which counts for nought when the soul is as beautiful as hers. She had married Joshua S. Pine when she was in her 26th year, 03/18/1819. Until about 1864, Joshua and Mary lived in New Jersey, within the limits of the Upper Greenwich Friends Meeting of which they were both members. A portion of the time they lived near Mickleton, and for 21 (1843 to 1864) near Bridgeport in Repaupo. From the latter place, they moved to Maryland, locating in Baltimore Co., about 12 miles from Baltimore City at a place called Stemmer's Run, where the remainder of their lives was spent. They had nine children, all of whom were boys except two, and of whom three died before reaching two years. The second son, Benjamin Pine, born in April of 1822, enlisted in the service of the United States during the Civil War, and lost his life either at the close of the engagement of Cold Harbor, or at Petersburg, Virginia. (See more details about this in the files) Mary H. Pine lived four years after the family moved to Baltimore Co. and Joshua survived her death by ten years. He was nearly 88 years old. They are both interred at Baltimore in the Friend's Burial Ground.

She was married to Joshua Stokes Pine (son of William Pine and Judith Lippencott) on 18 Mar 1819 in Haddonfield, Gloucester Co, NJ. It looks like the family lived, in the 1860 census, along Asbury Station Rd. (Floodgate Rd) between Crown Point Rd. and the Delaware River. Mary H. Pine lived four years after the family moved to Baltimore County, Maryland, and Joshua survived her death by ten years. He died November 5th, 1878, when nearly eighty-eight years old. Both he and his wife were
interred at Baltimore in the Friends' Burial Ground Joshua Stokes Pine was born on 14 Jan 1791 in Greenwich Twp, Gloucester Co, NJ. He was buried in 1878 in Friends Burial Ground, Baltimore, Maryland. He died on 5 Nov 1878 in Stemmers Run, Baltimore, MD. Mary Haines Thorne and Joshua Stokes Pine had the following children:

+960 i. William Allen Pine.
961 ii. Benjamin Pine was born on 8 Apr 1822 in Gloucester Co, NJ. He died on 16 Jun 1864 in Petersburg, VA. The second son, Benjamin Pine, born in April, 1822, enlisted in the service of the United States during the Civil War, and lost his life either at the close of the engagement of Cold Harbor or at Petersburg, Virginia. He had just re-enlisted after his first three years of service.
His record in the war was creditable as stated by officers and privates, but when his father endeavored to collect arrears for his past duties, statements of an erroneous character were made to the effect that he had met his death as a deserter. This was, beyond a doubt, false, evidently being brought forward as an excuse for refusing the money. The following letter may cast some light uon the uncertain date and circumstances relating to his death.

Mr. W. B. Pine,
Dear Sir,-
Your letter received in due time, and I would have answered sooner but have been sick and confined to my bed. Just got up and hasten to answer your letter. I was a member of Co. I, 68th Reg. Pa. V., Capt. Jos. Garrett. Benny Pine and myself were tentmates and had been
for a year or more before Benny's death, and were very much attached to one another. Capt. Garrett and I were talking about Ben's death sometime ago, and he and I do not just agree in regards to date of his death. Joe said he was killed at Cold Harbor, June, 1864. Now my recollection is this, - I may be wrong and Joe right, for he had a better chance of
keeping things straigt than I had, as I will explain later on. My recollection is that on the 16th or 14th of June, 1864, while making a charge on the rebel works, and just before we reached the works, there was a shell exploded right in front of our company and some of the company fell, but I did not know who. But after we were repulsed we commenced to look around and see who was missing and we missed Ben. So I went back and found Ben with his head nearly cut off his body by a piece of shell. Capt. Joe Garrett and myself made preparations to bury his body, and we did bury it, and before we buried him we took his watch and other little things which Joe kept and Joe gave me the watch.

On the 22nd of June I was thken prisoner, only a few days after Ben's death, and of course I had no time to write. I was for nine months in that hell called Andersonville, and Belle Isle, and Libby Prisons. During my confinement there I lost my mind and that accounts for my memory being not as good as Joe Garrett's. While in prison I was robbed of the watch and everything else. The next day after I was released in Wilmington, NC, I was taken down with fever, and when I came to I found myself in the Naval Hospital at Annapolis, MD. This was in June, 1865; war was over and Benny had been dead a year and over. When i got well I
drifted down here in Maryland. Some time after I got well I made some inquires about Ben, and to the best of my recollection, someof my comrades told me that his people had gone down to Petersburg and got his body and brought it home through the directions of Capt. Garrett. i do not know who told me so, but I never gave it any more thought, supposed his body was resting in his native soil. As for me writing I was so fixed I could not write, but I think it the strangest thing that Capt. Garrett did not do so, it was his place to do so, and the strangest thing of all is how Ben could have been on the rolls as a deserter, I can not understand it. i thought Capt. Garrett had straightened things when he got home. I will say right here that Benjamin Pine was not a deserter but was killed in battle in June, 1864, either at Petersburg or Cold Harbor, VA, and that I, William T. Elben, with the aid of Capt., Joseph Garrett and others, buried his body.

If there is any other information I can give you, would be gald to do so.

Yours respectfully,
William T. Elben.
Easton, Talbot Co., Md.

The foregoing letter, in 1902, is in the possession of Elizabeth T. Roberts of Emmorton, Maryland, the only one living of Joshua S. and Mary H. Pine's children.

Benjamin Pine mustered into Company J, 69 PA, August 19, 1861 at Philadelphia for a period of 3 years. He listed his occupation as a horse tamer. Wounded at Antietam, MD, 9/17/1862. Reinlisted with Co. I, 69 PA in Stevensburg, VA on 2/1/1864 and was killed at Petersburg on June 16, 1684.

962 iii. Job Collins Pine was born on 6 May 1824 in Mickleton, Glcstr Co, NJ. He died on 18 Jul 1824.
+963 iv. Clayton Thorn Pine.
+964 v. Samuel Thorn Pine.
965 vi. Abigail Pine was born on 29 Apr 1831 in Woodbury, Gloucester, NJ. She died on 20 Jul 1832.
+966 vii. Elizabeth Thorn Pine.
967 viii. Barkley Pine was born on 10 Oct 1833 in Woodbury, Gloucester, NJ. He (or she) died on 18 Mar 1835.
+968 ix. Elwood Pine.