This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BARNHART, EMANUEL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ic.2ADI/1198 Message Board Post: THIS QUERY IS IN REFERENCE TO MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER ROBERT BARNHART. HE IS BELIEVED TO BE THE SON OF GEORGE BARNHART (52) AND RHODA BARNHART, (54) ALSO OF GREENE COUNTY, GA., WHO ARE LISTED ON PAGE 100 OF THE 1850 GEORGIA CENSUS. GEORGE BARNHART (52) IS IN TURN BELIEVED TO BE THE SON OF GEORGE BARNHART AND "CATY" BARNHART, WITH THIS EARLIER GEORGE BEING A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER (SERGEANT?) WHO RECEIVED BOUNTY LAND GRANTS IN GEORGIA FOR HIS SERVICE, WHERE HE AND HIS FAMILY LATER SETTLED. THIS EARLIER GEORGE BARNHART IS BELIEVED TO BE THE SON OF JOHN (JOHANNES) BARNHART, A GERMAN EMIGRANT, AND MARIA GERTRUDE RAU OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. ROBERT BARNHART IS LISTED IN THE 1850 GEORGIA CENSUS FOR GREENE COUNTY ON PAGE 100.THESE CENSUS RECORDS DISCLOSE THE FOLLOWING FAMILY HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS: ROBERT BARNHART-24 (I BELIEVE THIS AGE MAY BE WRONG, AS THE 1860 FLORIDA CENSUS LISTS HIS AGE AS 37) SUSAN BARNHART-34 (I BELIEVE THIS AGE MAY BE WRONG, AS THE 1860 FLORIDA CENSUS LISTS HER AGE AS 38.) ROBERT BARNHART-7 (WILLIAM ROBERT BARNHART) SUSAN BARNHART-5 SIDNEY BARNHART-3 (JOHN SIDNEY BARNHART) MAJOR BARNHART-2 INFANT MALE-1 ROBERT BARNHART AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, IN 1851, WHERE HE STARTED A SAWMILL BETWEEN PRESENT DAY ORLANDO AND APOPKA ON THE WEKIVA RIVER. ANY ANCESTRAL HISTORY ON THIS BRANCH OF THE BARNHART FAMILY PRIOR TO 1851 WILL BE DEEPLY APPRECIATED. THERE ALSO APPEARS TO BE SOME CONNECTION TO THE EMANUEL FAMILY OF GEORGIA, SOME OF WHOM MOVED TO FLORIDA ALONG WITH ROBERT BARNHART AND HIS FAMILY. I DO NOT KNOW THE COUNTY OF ORIGIN OF THIS EMANUEL FAMILY, BUT IT IS LIKELY THAT THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THE BARNHART FAMILY IN SOME WAY, PERHAPS EVEN BEING RELATED. ANY INFORMATION AT ALL ON THE EMANUEL FAMILY WILL ALSO BE DEEPLY APPRECIATED. DALE D. BARNHART