Thomas Barrett 1824-1874
Book of History of Rice County 1882, Wheatland Township
Thomas Barrett, deceased, was born in Ireland in 1825, and in 1847 came to America locating in Xenia, Ohio, where he was employed on the railroad a few years, then removed to Wisconsin and engaged in farming. In 1865, he came to Rice County and took a claim on section twenty-three in this township, but did not settle here. He went to Muscatine, Iowa, and thence in a year to Iowa City, where, in 1858, he married Miss Honora Lacey. They went to Memphis, Tennessee, where Mr. Barrett worked on the railroad while his wife kept a boarding house and from there to Madrid in the same state, purchased a pair of mules and worked at grading, but finally returned to Memphis. He remained in that city until it was taken by the Union army during the late war, then removed to St. Louis, Missouri where he engaged in taking rafts of lumber from the river.
In 1865, he came to his farm here and began to improve it, building a log house in which he resided until 1871, when he erected the present edifice in which his family still live, having since built a granary. He died on the 20th of May, 1874 and left a family of six children; William, Thomas, John, Henry, Joseph, and Edward. Edmund died at three years of age and the only daughter when seven months old.
Book of History of Rice County 1882, Wheatland Township
Thomas Barrett, deceased, was born in Ireland in 1825, and in 1847 came to America locating in Xenia, Ohio, where he was employed on the railroad a few years, then removed to Wisconsin and engaged in farming. In 1865, he came to Rice County and took a claim on section twenty-three in this township, but did not settle here. He went to Muscatine, Iowa, and thence in a year to Iowa City, where, in 1858, he married Miss Honora Lacey. They went to Memphis, Tennessee, where Mr. Barrett worked on the railroad while his wife kept a boarding house and from there to Madrid in the same state, purchased a pair of mules and worked at grading, but finally returned to Memphis. He remained in that city until it was taken by the Union army during the late war, then removed to St. Louis, Missouri where he engaged in taking rafts of lumber from the river.
In 1865, he came to his farm here and began to improve it, building a log house in which he resided until 1871, when he erected the present edifice in which his family still live, having since built a granary. He died on the 20th of May, 1874 and left a family of six children; William, Thomas, John, Henry, Joseph, and Edward. Edmund died at three years of age and the only daughter when seven months old.
Thomas Barrett 1824-1874
Book of History of Rice County 1882, Wheatland Township
Thomas Barrett, deceased, was born in Ireland in 1825, and in 1847 came to America locating in Xenia, Ohio, where he was employed on the railroad a few years, then removed to Wisconsin and engaged in farming. In 1865, he came to Rice County and took a claim on section twenty-three in this township, but did not settle here. He went to Muscatine, Iowa, and thence in a year to Iowa City, where, in 1858, he married Miss Honora Lacey. They went to Memphis, Tennessee, where Mr. Barrett worked on the railroad while his wife kept a boarding house and from there to Madrid in the same state, purchased a pair of mules and worked at grading, but finally returned to Memphis. He remained in that city until it was taken by the Union army during the late war, then removed to St. Louis, Missouri where he engaged in taking rafts of lumber from the river.
In 1865, he came to his farm here and began to improve it, building a log house in which he resided until 1871, when he erected the present edifice in which his family still live, having since built a granary. He died on the 20th of May, 1874 and left a family of six children; William, Thomas, John, Henry, Joseph, and Edward. Edmund died at three years of age and the only daughter when seven months old.
Book of History of Rice County 1882, Wheatland Township
Thomas Barrett, deceased, was born in Ireland in 1825, and in 1847 came to America locating in Xenia, Ohio, where he was employed on the railroad a few years, then removed to Wisconsin and engaged in farming. In 1865, he came to Rice County and took a claim on section twenty-three in this township, but did not settle here. He went to Muscatine, Iowa, and thence in a year to Iowa City, where, in 1858, he married Miss Honora Lacey. They went to Memphis, Tennessee, where Mr. Barrett worked on the railroad while his wife kept a boarding house and from there to Madrid in the same state, purchased a pair of mules and worked at grading, but finally returned to Memphis. He remained in that city until it was taken by the Union army during the late war, then removed to St. Louis, Missouri where he engaged in taking rafts of lumber from the river.
In 1865, he came to his farm here and began to improve it, building a log house in which he resided until 1871, when he erected the present edifice in which his family still live, having since built a granary. He died on the 20th of May, 1874 and left a family of six children; William, Thomas, John, Henry, Joseph, and Edward. Edmund died at three years of age and the only daughter when seven months old.
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