A Private with the 357th Infantry, Machine Gun Company, Camp Travis Detachment #1, Edgar Carl Barnes was one of approximately 200 American soldiers who died in the sinking of the HMS Tuscania, attacked on February 5, 1918, by German submarine UB-77 in the North Channel off the western coast of Scotland.
First buried February 8, 1918, at Port Charlotte, Islay Island, off the coast of Scotland, he was later exhumed and relocated to America (1920 or thereafter).
He was the son of James Ephriam Barnes (b. Nov. 10, 1846 Walton, Florida; d. Dec. 31, 1922 Ranger, Texas)and Nancy Jane Yates Barnes (b. Oct. 24, 1856 Mississippi; d. Oct. 1923 Ranger, Texas).
Other Texas victims of the Tuscania sinking may be accessed here.
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A Private with the 357th Infantry, Machine Gun Company, Camp Travis Detachment #1, Edgar Carl Barnes was one of approximately 200 American soldiers who died in the sinking of the HMS Tuscania, attacked on February 5, 1918, by German submarine UB-77 in the North Channel off the western coast of Scotland.
First buried February 8, 1918, at Port Charlotte, Islay Island, off the coast of Scotland, he was later exhumed and relocated to America (1920 or thereafter).
He was the son of James Ephriam Barnes (b. Nov. 10, 1846 Walton, Florida; d. Dec. 31, 1922 Ranger, Texas)and Nancy Jane Yates Barnes (b. Oct. 24, 1856 Mississippi; d. Oct. 1923 Ranger, Texas).
Other Texas victims of the Tuscania sinking may be accessed here.
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Family Members
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Thomas Cornelius Barnes
1876–1948
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Georgia Alexander "Georgie" Barnes
1878–1878
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James William Barnes
1880–1962
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Ephraim Elijah Barnes
1881–1940
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John E Barnes
1882–1942
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Rosa Barnes Connell
1883–1904
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Wesley Cleveland Barnes
1885–1946
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Ellen Josephine "Josie" Barnes Dupree
1886–1974
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Ross Barnes
1887–1914
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Evan Jones Barnes
1889–1964
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Martin Macune Barnes
1890–1961
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Alfonzo Lucas "Luke" Barnes
1894 – unknown
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