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A cave on the farm of William Haynes, near Gap Mills, in Monroe County, was in years past pointed out as the scene of the self-murder of two Guinea Negroes - a man and his wife, years ago.
These Negroes were slaves of Mr. William Haynes. It seems that they had committed a theft, for which they received a severe whipping by the overseer, with the promise of its being repeated in a day or two. The next day they were missing. They were found in a cave with their throats cut and sitting erect against the side of the cave the man still holding in his hand the razor with which the fatal deed was done.
The supestitious slaves believed they would return to Guinea, after their deaths. They had taken all their clothes and money they possessed into the cave with them. The money which had been placed in the dress pocket of the women, with a view to bearing their expenses, was buried in the grave with their bodies.
William Haynes was born September 18, 1763. In early life he settled in Monroe County, (then Greenbrier) on a farm lying between "Gap Mills" and the Sweet Springs. He was married to Catherine Shanklin, a beautiful young daughter of Richard Shanklin, of Botetourt County, Virginia. Mrs. Katie (Shanklin) Haynes was at one time "Mother of the Students at the Old Lewisburg Academy in Leadsburg, W. Va. The children of William and Katie were, Agness Davidson, James Madison, William Powell, Andrew Shanklin, and Thomas Nelson Haynes.
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