FWD -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 11:11 AM Subject: my Barnett line >Hello Barnett researchers, > >There has been so much activity on this line lately that I thought I would >post my line again in the hopes of catching someones attention. > > GENERATION #1 > >Samuel Barnett, b. abt. 1820 in PA d. abt. 1862, m. Elizabeth Lewis, b. abt. >1820 in PA, d. abt. 1862 Children: Mollie, Lou, Margaret, Will and George >W. > >(What little info I have on Samuel and Elizabeth comes from the newspaper >death article of their son George W. Barnett. The article simply says that >George Barnett was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Barnett both from PA and >that George was bereft of both his parents at an early age. George was born >in 1859. > > GENERATION #2 > >Mollie Barnett, b. bef. 1859, d. unknown, m. unknown Nevins of Vigo Co., IN > >Lou Barnett, b. bef. 1859, d. unknown, m. Ben Miller of Vigo Co., IN > >Margaret Barnett, b. bef. 1859, d. unknown, m. Perry Miller of Vigo Co., IN > >William Barnett, b. bef. 1859, d. abt. 1940 in southern Indiana. > >(The above information again comes from the death article of George W. >Barnett) > >George W. Barnett, b. March 7, 1859 in Vermillion Co., IN (?), d. Sept. 4, >1925 in Montgomery Co., IN, m. Dec. 18, 1883 to Susannah Peterson. Children: > Solomon Ray; James; Samuel; Annette Ruth; Cecelia Jane; and Margaret. > >George and Susannah were my great grandparents and according to my >grandmother, Margaret Barnett he was raised by Hugh and Atlanta Dain >Campbell. It seems that (again according to family lore) Samuel had left >home presumably to serve in the Civil War and then that his wife Elizabeth >left her five children with five different families and went looking for him. > The children did find each other later in life unfortunately no one left any >records that have ever surfaced as to who raised the other four children or >even where the lived. How they found each other I don't know. No one was >much interested in preserving info back then. I have serached 1860 census >records for IN and don't find Samuel and Elizabeth listed anywhere. I have >also checked records for death of the three sisters that married Vigo Co. men >and have found none. Also I have looked for marriage records and find none. > >Hugh Campbell was b. in 1817 in OH, d. 1896 in Montgomery Co., IN. He and >his wife, Atlanta Dain, came to IN in 1848. > > GENERATION #3 > >Solomon Ray Barnett, b. 1884 in IN, d. 1941 in IN, m. Belle Parvis in 1906. >Children: Maxwell, Mary Isabell > >James Barnett, b. 1887 in IN, d. 1932 in IN, m. Bessie Sanburn in 1906. >Children: Merle, Helen, Melba, Esther Lou, and Annabelle. > >Samuel Barnett, b. 1889 in IN, d. 1939 in IN, m. Alberta Baer in 1911. >Children: Frances, Lucille, and Harold. > >Annette Ruth Barnett, b. 1891, d. 1997, m. Lawrence Williams in 1912 > >Cecelia Jane Barnett, b. 1894, d. 1987, m. Russell Fogarty in 1923 > >Margaret Barnett, b. 1897, d. 1969, m. Everett William Sherrill in 1925. > >Margaret and Everett were my grandparents. > >Any help on this line would be greatly appreciated. > >Linda >