 Hines learned there that his beloved Nancy Sproule was in an Ohio convent.He decided to "spirit" her from it, and on November 10, 1864, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Covington, Kentucky, they were married, despite her father's wishes that they wait until the war was over, due to Hines' wartime activities.They spent a week's honeymoon in Kentucky, after which Hines returned to his clandestine activities in Canada.