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Jennie Melissa Barnes: Birth: 29 Feb 1872.
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Note: Ulyssus Barnes, hotel proprietor, Herrickville, was born on his father's farm in Herrick township, this county, July 26, 1841. His father, Jeremiah Barnes, was born in Orwell township, in 1811; his grandfather, Jesse Barnes, was born near Blandford, Mass., was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, Philetus now having the musket he carried, a Queen Ann piece, in a fair state of preservation. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jerre Barnes were Jesse, Anson, Joel and Jeremiah. Jesse Barnes received the usual public-school education, after which he worked at home on the farm with his father. He married Roxanna Warfel, also a native of Massachusetts, and came to this county in 1805, settling in Orwell township, where he improved 150 acres, on which he lived until his forty-fourth year, when he was killed in the Horton sawmill, Wysox. They had eight children, viz.: Lucretia (wife of Alvin Goodnough), Jeremiah, Dr. Jesse, Ollie (wife of Louis Martin), Nelson, Philander, Alonzo and Francis Sylvester. Mrs. Jesse Barnes died in 1839. Jeremiah, the second eldest child in this family, received the usual public-school education, and worked on the farm until his twentieth year; then purchased a farm adjoining his father's, which he sold about 1834, and moved to Herrickville, where he bought from Louis Martin 100 acres, on which his son, Philetus Barnes, now resides; he died November 26, 1880. He had married Sally Aurilla, the younger of two children of Sypron Grant, and they had seven children: Sylvester (who died in infancy), Polly (wife of George Coe), Melissa (deceased), Ulyssus, Roxanna (deceased), Philetus and Loran (of Omaha, Neb). Jeremiah Barnes was tax collector in 1846. Ulyssus Barnes was educated in Herrickville, attending school until his nineteenth year, and learned the shoemaking trade. He was drafted and assigned to Company D, One Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment P.V.I., in October, 1862, and they were ordered to Harrisburg, Baltimore, Washington and Suffolk, Va., where they remained five weeks acting as reserves; then proceeded to Harris' Landing, and on a transport to New Berne, N.C., where they remained until April 1, 1863; thence were sent to Little Washington, N.C., until June; thence to Fortress Monroe, and received orders to cut off the Confederates, who were retreating from Gettysburg; thence up York river fifty miles, disembarked, and then were on march six days, when they returned to Fortress Monroe. Thence they proceeded to Baltimore and Harrisburg, where the command was mustered out August 8, 1863. Mr. Barnes returned home, remained two months, and then went to Nashville, Tenn., where he was employed by the Government until the close of the war, when he again returned home and took up his trade, which he has since followed. He is a member of Union Lodge, No. 95, F. & A.M. Mr. Barnes married, June 7, 1871, Sarah M., daughter of Thomas and Sallie (Brewster) Everson, natives of Monroe, Orange Co., N.Y.; she was born August 28,1848; her father and mother died in 1849; she had one brother, George T., and one sister, Julia, wife of Charles Walden. Nr. And Mrs. Barnes have one daughter, Jennie Melissa, who was born February 29,1872. -Rootsweb [email protected] |
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