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Mahala Emma <I>Sharpe</I> Barnes

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Mahala Emma Sharpe Barnes

Birth
Edgecombe County, North Carolina, USA
Death
15 Jul 1873 (aged 59)
Saratoga, Wilson County, North Carolina, USA
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Saratoga, Wilson County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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On February 16, 1830, Mahala Sharpe married Elias Barnes, also from what was then Edgecombe County. Elias was a successful farmer / planter near Saratoga, in the part of the county that would become Wilson County in 1855. Elias owned several slaves.
Mahala and Elias had ten children who grew into adulthood, seven sons and three daughters. The youngest daughter was born a year before Elias died in 1856. Two of the older sons died in the Civil War. Mahala managed to hold on to at least some of the land after the war and left it to her three youngest sons. She is buried next to her husband, in a small family cemetery in the middle of a tobacco field.
On February 16, 1830, Mahala Sharpe married Elias Barnes, also from what was then Edgecombe County. Elias was a successful farmer / planter near Saratoga, in the part of the county that would become Wilson County in 1855. Elias owned several slaves.
Mahala and Elias had ten children who grew into adulthood, seven sons and three daughters. The youngest daughter was born a year before Elias died in 1856. Two of the older sons died in the Civil War. Mahala managed to hold on to at least some of the land after the war and left it to her three youngest sons. She is buried next to her husband, in a small family cemetery in the middle of a tobacco field.

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