-----Original Message----- From: Allen and Pat Russell <paleface@zianet.com> To: Karl L. Hakmiller <karlh@concentric.net> Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 3:25 PM Subject: Lucinda Barner, John G. W. Barner, Susan Adkins > >Thank you so much for the research you did to help my Barner cause. That >was above and beyond the expected. > >What I have is: 1855 census shows Lucinda (Allen at that time), Geoge W.(he >used John in 1850 census), and Susan Barner were all born in Ulster County. >In 1996 I wrote to Dorothy DuMond, Town Historian of Esopus. Although she >didn't feel she had helped, the typed sheet she sent me contained some gems! >A birth/bapt record from the "Low Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus", Ulster >Park, NY contained some births from parents Simon Barner/Cartina Wiest, but >more importantly a child, "John Geo. Woester" born or bapt 5-31-1811 of >parents "Johannes Barnet and Jane Frear". The birth year matches my John G. >W. Barner. The "Barnet" does not disturb me - the births of Simon showed >Barner for 3 births and Barnet for the other. I'm pretty sure of the >"Barner" because Lucinda's son, John Ethan Allen, showed it on Lucinda's >death certificate. He showed her father as George W. Barner and mother as >Sarah Adkins. > >I guess some paths seem like dead ends, but I'm still hoping I can break >this one open. Thanks again for your research. If this new info gives you >any ideas, please share with me.-- Allen Russell >(I thought I had sent this but now I'm not sure.)