This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barnes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hBB.2ACE/93.454.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for a William Carroll Barnes, born Dec. 23, 1830, in S.W. Tennessee. He died Jan 6, 1886 in Healdton, Oklahoma. There may have been three children born before the Civil War. William, Carroll and Mary. He later married Sarah "Sally" Ann Page of Illinois. Their first child John Wright Barnes was born to them June 22 1868 in Hardin Co. Tenn. I am looking for a connection with William, Carroll and Mary Barnes. William C. moved his family from Tenn. to Ewing Co. Ill, then to Montague Co. Texas and later to Oklahoma. There were two other boys and several sisters that came to Oklahoma. There is a family story; "One of the boys was traveling with the family but turned back at the river. Probably the Mississippi." I would like to know if there are descendants of either William or Carroll Barnes turning back at the river? If so I would like to hear from you.