Lemuel Barnes descendants are further researched on Brøderbund World Family Tree, Volume 15, Pedigree #162. His (AFN:3XL2-S9) descendants are further researched at the LDS Family Search Internet Genealogy Service at: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=32022 84 as submitted by Judith (Wilson) Danforth, 5315 S.W. 166th Avenue, Beaverton, Oregon 97007. (Sept 1999)spouse: Bement, Rebecca (1762 - <1815)
Lemuel Barnes, Jr. descendant information is being provided by Judith Benedict "JB" Wilson of Beaverton, Oregon, e-mail: designs@@hevanet.com (Sept. 1999)spouse: ???, Polly (1784 - 1871)
Martha Rosette Barnes and her husband had eleven children.spouse: Crandle, Job Robards (1838 - 1920)
The information on this descendant line was provided by Robin Warner Saunders of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.spouse: Warner, Amos (1780 - 1868)
Mary Edith Barnes and the descendants of her and her husband, Henry William Edminster, Jr., were gathered from the book "The Edminster Family in America" by Frank Custer Edminster, Jr. and are covered under Section III, pp. 37-58, of that document.spouse: Edminster, Henry William Jr. (1793 - 1852)Henry William Edminster, Jr. moved with his family to Middleborough, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts sometime after 1800 and settled in the township of Hartford, Cortland Co., New York in 1813 (possibly 1812). Their family is recorded in the censuses of Harford (first it was part of Virgil in Tioga County) in 1820, 1830 and 1840. However, they had apparently moved a few miles across the county line into Caroline, Tompkins County, from about 1835 to 1840. They had evidently moved a short distance again by 1850 for they were then listed in the census of the township of Dryden, Cortland County. Henry died at Harford, 31 March 1852. Mary and the children soon after removed to Milo, Bureau County, Illinois where she died, 19 September 1866. Both of the Henrys were farmers. The 12 or 13 children of Henry, Jr. and Mary were all born in New York, but the order is not certain.
ORSON BARNES may have had a total of four or five children. The only child name known was that of William Barnes.spouse: Phelps, Elizabeth (1803 - ~1893)
Captain Phineas Barnes was born 7 July 1730 at Southington Parish, Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut; and died 8 Sept 1795 at Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.spouse: Bement, Phebe (1734 - 1815)He was commissioned by the General Court of Connecticut, 13 May 1762, Ensign of the First Company of Militia in Southington Parish, and in May 1768, was preferred Lieutenant, and in October, 1767, Captain (Source: Connecticut Colonial Record, Vol. xii, 11, 460, 613).
It was in the latter year that he memorialized in the General Assembly, for power to dispose of his lands and building in Farmington, which he had mortgaged to Josiah Robinson of Wallingford, as security for a debt to Theophilact Bache, of New York. This was granted, and shortly afterward, he removed to West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, but the last years of his life were spent at Great Barrington, where he died intestate, and where his estate was administered upon by his brother-in-law, Asa Bement, be appointed administrator. In the petition for the sale of his real estate, Phineas Barnes is styled "gentleman". The notice for the sale of reads: To be sold at public Venue by order of Court at the dwelling house of Walter Pynchon, in Great Barrington, on Tuesday the twelfth of December next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, all the real estate whereof Captain Phineas Barnes, late of said Great Barrington died seized upon the following terms, viz: fifty dollars to be paid down, one hundred dollars on the first of March next and the remainder of the purchase money with the interest to be paid on the fifteenth of August next."
Captain Barnes' sympathies in the Revolution were strongly on the side of Independence, and five of his sons, Phineas, Lemuel, Roswell, Asa, and Thomas gave evidence of their patriotism in that struggle by joining the Revolutionary Army. Three of his children, Lemuel, Lucy and Freelove married into the Bement family. Most of the children married, and like the Bement's, moved westward with each advance of adventurous pioneers.
Chronicles of the Bement Family in America; 1928, pp. 100-103
Phineas Barnes, III had eleven children. His descendants are further researched on Brøderbund World Family Tree, Volume 15, Pedigree #162; and Volume 25, Pedigree #1673. Additional descendant information has been compiled online by Deane Merrill at "http://www.crocker.com/~merrill/family/data/miller2.html"spouse: Foster, Lois (1782 - 1847)
PHOEBE BARNES lived with one of her sons for over twenty years after the death of her second husband. One of her grandchildren wrote "How we all loved her. I used to think a home without a grandmother was very poorly equipped." (Excerpts from a letter of 22 Oct 1913 to J. Granville Leach). (Source: Chronicles of the Bement Family in America; 1928, pp. 161b,c,d)spouse: Herring, Joseph (~1769 - )
Rebecca Barnes descendant information is being researched by Linda Claire Ehrhart Abel, P.O. Box 416, Orchard, Texas 77464; (409) 478-7496 (e-mail: lcabel@@genesiscomics.com) who is exploring a possible link for Rebecca Barnes (web site: http://members.xoom.com/A53Claire/) (Sept. 1999)
The descendants of Roswell Barnes were provided by R. Colby Thompson of Monarch Beach, California (January, 1998)spouse: Hart, Candace (1758 - >1790)
THOMAS BARNES was a wealthy citizen of Southington, Conn. His father, Captain Ebenezer Barnes, was commissioned ensign of the militia company of Southington in Farmington, in October 1737 and Captain in May 1742. (Source: Connecticut Colonial Record, Vol. viii, 129, 449). The house, which he built in the south part of the present town of Bristol, was still standing about 1913, the oldest in "old Farmington." He died in 1756, having married 8 April 1699, Deborah, daughter of Samuel and Deborah Orvis. Thomas Barnes, father of Ebenezer, and the founder of this branch of the Barnes family, was a soldier in the Pequot War from Hartford, Connecticut. His second wife, Mary, daughter of John Andrews, of Hartford, and the mother of his youngest sons, Thomas and Ebenezer, survived him, and was named in his will of 9 June 1688.spouse: Day, Hannah (~1710 - )
WILLIAM BARNES was a widely known specialist in insurance law, and the father of William Barnes, Jr., owner and publisher of the Albany Journal (1889-aft. 1913), and leader of the Republican Party in New York; also of Thurlow Weed Barnes, of Albany, author and negotiator of the "Hankow-Canton Contract" with the Chinese Government in 1898, and of Mrs. Catherine Weed Barnes Ward, Journalist, and with her husband, Henry Snowden Ward, of Hadlow, Kent, England, author of Shakespeare's Town Times, The Real Dickens Land, The Canterbury Pilgrimages and Shakespearean Guide to Stratford-on-Avon. (Source: Chronicles of the Bement Family in America; 1928, p. 103)spouse: Weed, Emily Peck Kempshall (1827 - 1889)
Helen (Barnhart) Allen was a widow and the second wife of William Burr Bement, having married William when he was 53 and she 42 years of age. William and Helen had no issue together. Helen was previously married to (1) a Mr. Allen and had four children with him. Two of the children were grown at the time of her marriage to William, but the two youngest, Kenneth Space Allen and Robert Charles Allen lived with their mother and step father, William. (Source: Kenneth Space Allen, Minden, Nevada; May 1998)spouse: Allen, ??? (<1904 - <1946)
John Barrett (9-10284) never married. After graduation from Worcester Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts, he went to Nashville, Tennessee, and attended Vanderbilt University, but finished his college work at Dartmouth College, where he graduated as A.B., in 1889. Shortly after graduation he went to the Pacific Coast where he was connected with the editorial management of several newspapers in San Francisco, Tacoma, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.While associate editor of the "Telegram" at Portland, he was appointed in 1894, by President Cleveland as United States Minister to Siam, where he served until 1898. In 1898, he was sent as War Correspondent, by a number of American Newspapers, to the Philippines, where he remained until 1899. From 1899 to 1901 he traveled in the Far East making commercial investigations on behalf of Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade in the United States. In 1901, he was appointed delegate of the United States to the Second Pan-American Conference, which was held in Mexico City. He was commissioned General of Foreign Affairs for the St. Louis Exposition in 1902 and 1903, United States Minister to the Argentine Republic in 1903-04, United States Minister to Panama 1904-05, United States Minister to Columbia 1905-06. Early in 1907, he was appointed, by a unanimous vote of the representatives of the twenty Latin-American Republics in Washington, Director General of the International Bureau of the American Republics (Pan American Union), an institution devoted to the development of closer commercial, political and diplomatic relations among all the nations of the western hemisphere. He held this position from 1907 until 1920.
Thomas Sanford Genealogy c., 1911, p. 861
Cora Belle Bartlett was the youngest of the nine children (5 male, 4 female) of Joseph Bartlett and Emily (Fickett) Bartlett. (Source: Spencer L. BeMent via Gary W. Bement, 1997).spouse: Bement, James Almon (1847 - 1917)
Peter Bastian served at the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War.spouse: Casselberry, Sarah (1846 - )
Eleanor Bauer had one child, born Beverly Ann Bauer, from a non-disclosed relationship while at a young age. She was then adopted by James Otis Thompson and his wife Neva Mae (Bell) Thompson, and her name was legally changed to Rosalie Myrtle Thompson. Eleanor later married Lloyd Pontious and they were together for over fifty years until her death.spouse:
Clyde Bement Beach Burial: June 1931, Hurd Cemetery Annex, Orleans,Ionia Co., MI; Cause of Death: Heart Troublespouse: Richardson, Belle (1896 - 1979)Note for Belle Richardson: "My father's mother, Belle Richardson, Beach, Wise, Towne would be buried next to Clyde. She was my fat Gram- a sweetheart. She was widowed three times. Her second husband- Albert Wise- was grandpa to me. They were married when I was about four." (Source: Jane Beach-Bookey)
Guy Beach is buried in Plot 24, Hurd Cemetery, Ionia Co., Michigan. He died on November 20, 1902 at the age of 39 years of age. In the Cemetery Index (taken from Sextons records 1973 by Earl Doty) there was no other family buried in the same cemetery plot as Guy, although the records of marriages of Ionia County indicate that Guy Beach married Nettie Edwards in September 1883. (Source: Mary Gentry, Oct 1999)spouse: Edwards, Nettie (>1863 - )
Cause of Death: Subarachnoid hemorrhage Medical Information: Arteriosclerotic cerebrovasclar diseasespouse: Carroll, Virginia Claire (1908 - 1997)