Hello Listers - I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday. I thought I would start out the new year by posting my Barnes line. The earliest I know of is : William Barnes who was born abt 1754, in Petersburg, VA and died about 1801 in Franklin County Georgia. [If this is our John Barnes father, then his father died just before or just after the birth of John.] William Barnes married Mary "Molly"_____. John Barnes. [John was the son of William Barnes and Mary "Molly" ______.] John was born about 1800, however where or when died is still unknown, we lost track of him in 1836 TX when he joined the TX Militia. He married Tabitha Mobley, Mar 4, 1823 in Jasper Co., GA. Tabitha was the daughter of Jethro Mobley & Esther Lovejoy. Eldridge M. Barnes [ the son of John Barnes and Tabitha Mobley], was born Oct 7, 1827 in Georgia, and died Jul 1, 1900, Alexander City, Tallapossa Co., AL. He married Mary E. Haynes on Feb. 10, 1853 in Tallapossa Co., AL. She was born Sept 14, 1832, possibly GA?, and died Dec 24, 1901. Eldridge M. Barnes was Postmaster of Alexander City, Tallapoosa Co., AL, Feb 11, 1892 and May 22, 1897. On a stone plaque in front of the grave stone of Eldridge M. Barnes it says: "Eldridge M. Barnes, 1st Lt. ALA MILITIA Confederate States Army." John Samuel Barnes, was the son of Eldridge M. Barnes & Mary E. Haynes. He was born Mar 1854, AL, and died Sept. 6, 1921, Hot Springs, AR. He married first Georgia Belle Mizell on Nov. 3, 1885, in Corsicana, Navarro Co., TX. Belle Barnes, the daughter of John Samuel Barnes & Georgia Belle Mizell. She was born Aug. 24, 1886 in Corsicana, Navarro Co., TX and died Apr, 1979, Jackson Co., OK. She married Alvah T. Stewart, son of John Bolten Stewart & Elizabeth Matilda Lawless, August 31, 1902. Dorothy Faye Stewart, daughter of Alvah T. Stewart and Bell Barnes, was born Nov. 2, 1907, Altus, Ok., died Dec 21, 1962, Hobart, OK, buried Roosevelt, OK. Married Luther Clifton Cheuvront And then there was me - Dorothy (daughter of Dorothy Faye Stewart & Luther Clifton Cheuvront). Ah, ah - not fair to ask a lady's age :) Dot