Note: The headstone for Benjamin Barnes and Mary E Wilson Barnes has two date errors: The actual death date for Benjamin Barnes is October 15, 1912 (not September). The death date for Mary E Wilson Barnes is November 30, 1918 (not November 20, 1918). It is unusual to have two dates engraved wrong on a joint headstone; however this contributor discovered these discrepencies during a search for their obituaries in the Fairfield Daily Journal and found both dates on the headstone clearly conflicted with the publication dates of the obituaries.
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According to the death record transcription at the Fairfield Public Library, the parents of Benjamin Barnes were Thomas Barnes and Sarah Case Barnes.
Married Mary E Wilson Barnes on September 22, 1859 in Jefferson County, Iowa.
No children.
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Obituary transcription for Benjamin Barnes
Fairfield Daily Journal
Wednesday, October 16, 1912
BENJAMIN BARNES DIED TUESDAY
Benjamin BARNES passed away at his home on North Court street yesterday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock after an illness extending over a period of three years. Mr. BARNES had been in a serious condition since Sunday and his death was no surprise to his relatives and friends.
Benjamin BARNES was born in Mansfield, Ohio, March 12, 1834, and grew to young manhood there. He came to Iowa and located in Fairfield in 1855 and had made this his home ever since. Soon after coming to Fairfield Mr. BARNES was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. WILSON of this city. Together the couple have traveled life's pathway until now and the aged wife who is left alone has the sympathy of the many friends.
Mr. BARNES was a member of a family of seven children and is the last of the family, with the exception of one sister, Mrs. Guylan BEATTY of this city. Mr. BARNES was one of the best known of the older residents of Fairfield. He followed the painting and paper hanging trade for over a half century here. About three years ago he surffered from a stroke of paralysis and from that time until his death has had several strokes.
The funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the interrment will be made in Evergreen cemetery. Dr. Thomas Osborn of the Methodist church will conduct the funeral.
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From the History of Jefferson County - 1912, Volume II, Pages 341-342.
BENJAMIN BARNES
Benjamin Barnes is now living retired in Fairfield, a life of well directed activity in following the plasterer's trade having brought him the comfortable competence that now enables him to spend the evening of his days in rest from further labor. Moreover, he deserves mention in this volume from the fact that for more than a half century he has lived in Fairfield, having come to this city in 1855. Its history is well known to him, for he has witnessed its growth and development through many decades. His birth occurred in Richland county, Ohio, about four and a half miles east of Mansfield, on the 12th of March, 1834, his parents being Thomas and Sarah J. (Case) Barnes, natives of Maryland and New Jersey, respectively. They were married, however, in Ohio, and in 1855 came with their son Benjamin to Fairfield, where they afterward resided. The father, who followed farming throughout his entire life, died in 1884 at the venerable age of eighty-six years, while his wife passed away when fifty-four years of age. In their family were seven children: Elizabeth and Samuel, both of whom are deceased; Benjamin; Julia and Susan, who died in this county; Sadie, the widow of Guy Beatty, of Fairfield, and one who died in infancy.
Benjamin Barnes was twenty-one years of age when he came to Iowa. His youth had been passed on his father's farm in Ohio, and his educational opportunities were those afforded by the public schools. He early learned the plasterer's trade and has made it his life work, continuously following that business until the last three years, during which time he has lived retired. He thoroughly mastered the trade in early manhood and because of the excellence of his labor and his reliable business methods, he was accorded a liberal patronage.
In 1859 Mr. Barnes was married in Fairfield to Miss Mary E. Wilson, who was born in Covington, Indiana, April 22, 1835, and came to Iowa with her parents in 1837. She is a daughter of Grinder and Eleanor B. (Walker) Wilson, the father born in North Carolina and the mother in Kentucky. They were farming people and spent their last days in Fairfield but on coming to Iowa, took up their abode near Mount Pleasant. Their family numbered four sons and four daughters, who lived to mature years, while one child died in infancy, these being: John Milton, Catherine, Isaac, James, Joshua, Prudence and Ellen, all now deceased; Mary, who is the only one now living; and Francis, who died in infancy. Mrs. Barnes is today the oldest resident of Jefferson county in years of connection with this part of the state, for there is no one living here that came prior to 1837. This was two years before the county was organized by the territorial legislature and she remembers well when the state was admitted to the Union. She relates many interesting incidents of the early days when the broad prairies were covered with their native grasses, when the timber was uncut and when deer and other wild game were to be had in abundance. Indians, too, were more numerous than the white settlers in this part of the state and the work of improvement and progress had scarcely been begun. Mr. Barnes, too, is one of the oldest settlers here, having for fifty-six years lived in Fairfield. In politics he is a republican, supporting the party since its organization, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has always lived up to his profession and his life has been an honorable, upright one.
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According to the death record transcription at the Fairfield Public Library, the parents of Benjamin Barnes were Thomas Barnes and Sarah Case Barnes.
Married Mary E Wilson Barnes on September 22, 1859 in Jefferson County, Iowa.
No children.
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Obituary transcription for Benjamin Barnes
Fairfield Daily Journal
Wednesday, October 16, 1912
BENJAMIN BARNES DIED TUESDAY
Benjamin BARNES passed away at his home on North Court street yesterday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock after an illness extending over a period of three years. Mr. BARNES had been in a serious condition since Sunday and his death was no surprise to his relatives and friends.
Benjamin BARNES was born in Mansfield, Ohio, March 12, 1834, and grew to young manhood there. He came to Iowa and located in Fairfield in 1855 and had made this his home ever since. Soon after coming to Fairfield Mr. BARNES was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. WILSON of this city. Together the couple have traveled life's pathway until now and the aged wife who is left alone has the sympathy of the many friends.
Mr. BARNES was a member of a family of seven children and is the last of the family, with the exception of one sister, Mrs. Guylan BEATTY of this city. Mr. BARNES was one of the best known of the older residents of Fairfield. He followed the painting and paper hanging trade for over a half century here. About three years ago he surffered from a stroke of paralysis and from that time until his death has had several strokes.
The funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the interrment will be made in Evergreen cemetery. Dr. Thomas Osborn of the Methodist church will conduct the funeral.
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From the History of Jefferson County - 1912, Volume II, Pages 341-342.
BENJAMIN BARNES
Benjamin Barnes is now living retired in Fairfield, a life of well directed activity in following the plasterer's trade having brought him the comfortable competence that now enables him to spend the evening of his days in rest from further labor. Moreover, he deserves mention in this volume from the fact that for more than a half century he has lived in Fairfield, having come to this city in 1855. Its history is well known to him, for he has witnessed its growth and development through many decades. His birth occurred in Richland county, Ohio, about four and a half miles east of Mansfield, on the 12th of March, 1834, his parents being Thomas and Sarah J. (Case) Barnes, natives of Maryland and New Jersey, respectively. They were married, however, in Ohio, and in 1855 came with their son Benjamin to Fairfield, where they afterward resided. The father, who followed farming throughout his entire life, died in 1884 at the venerable age of eighty-six years, while his wife passed away when fifty-four years of age. In their family were seven children: Elizabeth and Samuel, both of whom are deceased; Benjamin; Julia and Susan, who died in this county; Sadie, the widow of Guy Beatty, of Fairfield, and one who died in infancy.
Benjamin Barnes was twenty-one years of age when he came to Iowa. His youth had been passed on his father's farm in Ohio, and his educational opportunities were those afforded by the public schools. He early learned the plasterer's trade and has made it his life work, continuously following that business until the last three years, during which time he has lived retired. He thoroughly mastered the trade in early manhood and because of the excellence of his labor and his reliable business methods, he was accorded a liberal patronage.
In 1859 Mr. Barnes was married in Fairfield to Miss Mary E. Wilson, who was born in Covington, Indiana, April 22, 1835, and came to Iowa with her parents in 1837. She is a daughter of Grinder and Eleanor B. (Walker) Wilson, the father born in North Carolina and the mother in Kentucky. They were farming people and spent their last days in Fairfield but on coming to Iowa, took up their abode near Mount Pleasant. Their family numbered four sons and four daughters, who lived to mature years, while one child died in infancy, these being: John Milton, Catherine, Isaac, James, Joshua, Prudence and Ellen, all now deceased; Mary, who is the only one now living; and Francis, who died in infancy. Mrs. Barnes is today the oldest resident of Jefferson county in years of connection with this part of the state, for there is no one living here that came prior to 1837. This was two years before the county was organized by the territorial legislature and she remembers well when the state was admitted to the Union. She relates many interesting incidents of the early days when the broad prairies were covered with their native grasses, when the timber was uncut and when deer and other wild game were to be had in abundance. Indians, too, were more numerous than the white settlers in this part of the state and the work of improvement and progress had scarcely been begun. Mr. Barnes, too, is one of the oldest settlers here, having for fifty-six years lived in Fairfield. In politics he is a republican, supporting the party since its organization, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has always lived up to his profession and his life has been an honorable, upright one.
Note: The headstone for Benjamin Barnes and Mary E Wilson Barnes has two date errors: The actual death date for Benjamin Barnes is October 15, 1912 (not September). The death date for Mary E Wilson Barnes is November 30, 1918 (not November 20, 1918). It is unusual to have two dates engraved wrong on a joint headstone; however this contributor discovered these discrepencies during a search for their obituaries in the Fairfield Daily Journal and found both dates on the headstone clearly conflicted with the publication dates of the obituaries.
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According to the death record transcription at the Fairfield Public Library, the parents of Benjamin Barnes were Thomas Barnes and Sarah Case Barnes.
Married Mary E Wilson Barnes on September 22, 1859 in Jefferson County, Iowa.
No children.
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Obituary transcription for Benjamin Barnes
Fairfield Daily Journal
Wednesday, October 16, 1912
BENJAMIN BARNES DIED TUESDAY
Benjamin BARNES passed away at his home on North Court street yesterday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock after an illness extending over a period of three years. Mr. BARNES had been in a serious condition since Sunday and his death was no surprise to his relatives and friends.
Benjamin BARNES was born in Mansfield, Ohio, March 12, 1834, and grew to young manhood there. He came to Iowa and located in Fairfield in 1855 and had made this his home ever since. Soon after coming to Fairfield Mr. BARNES was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. WILSON of this city. Together the couple have traveled life's pathway until now and the aged wife who is left alone has the sympathy of the many friends.
Mr. BARNES was a member of a family of seven children and is the last of the family, with the exception of one sister, Mrs. Guylan BEATTY of this city. Mr. BARNES was one of the best known of the older residents of Fairfield. He followed the painting and paper hanging trade for over a half century here. About three years ago he surffered from a stroke of paralysis and from that time until his death has had several strokes.
The funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the interrment will be made in Evergreen cemetery. Dr. Thomas Osborn of the Methodist church will conduct the funeral.
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From the History of Jefferson County - 1912, Volume II, Pages 341-342.
BENJAMIN BARNES
Benjamin Barnes is now living retired in Fairfield, a life of well directed activity in following the plasterer's trade having brought him the comfortable competence that now enables him to spend the evening of his days in rest from further labor. Moreover, he deserves mention in this volume from the fact that for more than a half century he has lived in Fairfield, having come to this city in 1855. Its history is well known to him, for he has witnessed its growth and development through many decades. His birth occurred in Richland county, Ohio, about four and a half miles east of Mansfield, on the 12th of March, 1834, his parents being Thomas and Sarah J. (Case) Barnes, natives of Maryland and New Jersey, respectively. They were married, however, in Ohio, and in 1855 came with their son Benjamin to Fairfield, where they afterward resided. The father, who followed farming throughout his entire life, died in 1884 at the venerable age of eighty-six years, while his wife passed away when fifty-four years of age. In their family were seven children: Elizabeth and Samuel, both of whom are deceased; Benjamin; Julia and Susan, who died in this county; Sadie, the widow of Guy Beatty, of Fairfield, and one who died in infancy.
Benjamin Barnes was twenty-one years of age when he came to Iowa. His youth had been passed on his father's farm in Ohio, and his educational opportunities were those afforded by the public schools. He early learned the plasterer's trade and has made it his life work, continuously following that business until the last three years, during which time he has lived retired. He thoroughly mastered the trade in early manhood and because of the excellence of his labor and his reliable business methods, he was accorded a liberal patronage.
In 1859 Mr. Barnes was married in Fairfield to Miss Mary E. Wilson, who was born in Covington, Indiana, April 22, 1835, and came to Iowa with her parents in 1837. She is a daughter of Grinder and Eleanor B. (Walker) Wilson, the father born in North Carolina and the mother in Kentucky. They were farming people and spent their last days in Fairfield but on coming to Iowa, took up their abode near Mount Pleasant. Their family numbered four sons and four daughters, who lived to mature years, while one child died in infancy, these being: John Milton, Catherine, Isaac, James, Joshua, Prudence and Ellen, all now deceased; Mary, who is the only one now living; and Francis, who died in infancy. Mrs. Barnes is today the oldest resident of Jefferson county in years of connection with this part of the state, for there is no one living here that came prior to 1837. This was two years before the county was organized by the territorial legislature and she remembers well when the state was admitted to the Union. She relates many interesting incidents of the early days when the broad prairies were covered with their native grasses, when the timber was uncut and when deer and other wild game were to be had in abundance. Indians, too, were more numerous than the white settlers in this part of the state and the work of improvement and progress had scarcely been begun. Mr. Barnes, too, is one of the oldest settlers here, having for fifty-six years lived in Fairfield. In politics he is a republican, supporting the party since its organization, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has always lived up to his profession and his life has been an honorable, upright one.
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According to the death record transcription at the Fairfield Public Library, the parents of Benjamin Barnes were Thomas Barnes and Sarah Case Barnes.
Married Mary E Wilson Barnes on September 22, 1859 in Jefferson County, Iowa.
No children.
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Obituary transcription for Benjamin Barnes
Fairfield Daily Journal
Wednesday, October 16, 1912
BENJAMIN BARNES DIED TUESDAY
Benjamin BARNES passed away at his home on North Court street yesterday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock after an illness extending over a period of three years. Mr. BARNES had been in a serious condition since Sunday and his death was no surprise to his relatives and friends.
Benjamin BARNES was born in Mansfield, Ohio, March 12, 1834, and grew to young manhood there. He came to Iowa and located in Fairfield in 1855 and had made this his home ever since. Soon after coming to Fairfield Mr. BARNES was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. WILSON of this city. Together the couple have traveled life's pathway until now and the aged wife who is left alone has the sympathy of the many friends.
Mr. BARNES was a member of a family of seven children and is the last of the family, with the exception of one sister, Mrs. Guylan BEATTY of this city. Mr. BARNES was one of the best known of the older residents of Fairfield. He followed the painting and paper hanging trade for over a half century here. About three years ago he surffered from a stroke of paralysis and from that time until his death has had several strokes.
The funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the interrment will be made in Evergreen cemetery. Dr. Thomas Osborn of the Methodist church will conduct the funeral.
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From the History of Jefferson County - 1912, Volume II, Pages 341-342.
BENJAMIN BARNES
Benjamin Barnes is now living retired in Fairfield, a life of well directed activity in following the plasterer's trade having brought him the comfortable competence that now enables him to spend the evening of his days in rest from further labor. Moreover, he deserves mention in this volume from the fact that for more than a half century he has lived in Fairfield, having come to this city in 1855. Its history is well known to him, for he has witnessed its growth and development through many decades. His birth occurred in Richland county, Ohio, about four and a half miles east of Mansfield, on the 12th of March, 1834, his parents being Thomas and Sarah J. (Case) Barnes, natives of Maryland and New Jersey, respectively. They were married, however, in Ohio, and in 1855 came with their son Benjamin to Fairfield, where they afterward resided. The father, who followed farming throughout his entire life, died in 1884 at the venerable age of eighty-six years, while his wife passed away when fifty-four years of age. In their family were seven children: Elizabeth and Samuel, both of whom are deceased; Benjamin; Julia and Susan, who died in this county; Sadie, the widow of Guy Beatty, of Fairfield, and one who died in infancy.
Benjamin Barnes was twenty-one years of age when he came to Iowa. His youth had been passed on his father's farm in Ohio, and his educational opportunities were those afforded by the public schools. He early learned the plasterer's trade and has made it his life work, continuously following that business until the last three years, during which time he has lived retired. He thoroughly mastered the trade in early manhood and because of the excellence of his labor and his reliable business methods, he was accorded a liberal patronage.
In 1859 Mr. Barnes was married in Fairfield to Miss Mary E. Wilson, who was born in Covington, Indiana, April 22, 1835, and came to Iowa with her parents in 1837. She is a daughter of Grinder and Eleanor B. (Walker) Wilson, the father born in North Carolina and the mother in Kentucky. They were farming people and spent their last days in Fairfield but on coming to Iowa, took up their abode near Mount Pleasant. Their family numbered four sons and four daughters, who lived to mature years, while one child died in infancy, these being: John Milton, Catherine, Isaac, James, Joshua, Prudence and Ellen, all now deceased; Mary, who is the only one now living; and Francis, who died in infancy. Mrs. Barnes is today the oldest resident of Jefferson county in years of connection with this part of the state, for there is no one living here that came prior to 1837. This was two years before the county was organized by the territorial legislature and she remembers well when the state was admitted to the Union. She relates many interesting incidents of the early days when the broad prairies were covered with their native grasses, when the timber was uncut and when deer and other wild game were to be had in abundance. Indians, too, were more numerous than the white settlers in this part of the state and the work of improvement and progress had scarcely been begun. Mr. Barnes, too, is one of the oldest settlers here, having for fifty-six years lived in Fairfield. In politics he is a republican, supporting the party since its organization, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has always lived up to his profession and his life has been an honorable, upright one.
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