Veteran of World War I
US Army
Grayson Hufford Barnett was born in 1894 in Grayson, Missouri. The middle child of three brothers, Grayson was only eleven years old when he lost his mother in 1905. Eight years later when Grayson was 19, his father effectively started life over when he remarried a young widow, Amelia Mitchell with two children, and moved the entire family to Colorado.
Five years after the move, with the United States entering World War I, Grayson and both of his brothers entered the service. According to Colorado Adjutant General records, Jack and Stanley were assigned to infantry units while Grayson was assigned as a cook in the Quartermaster Corps. Of the three brothers, Grayson would be the only one to return. His brother Jack was killed in action on October 8, 1918 during the Argonne Offensive and his other brother Stanley died one week after the war was over, of causes that are not clear. Another Belton-related veteran who died in France after the war had ended was a victim of the influenza epidemic that was raging at the time.
When Grayson returned from the war, he lived and worked as a hired hand on a ranch in Colorado near his father's for a while. It was on that ranch that he met Gertrude Delight Dawkins, his employer's daughter, who would later become his wife. By the time of the 1930 Census, Grayson and Gertrude had returned to Grayson's native state of Missouri and had been married for nine years. Census data show them still farming in 1940. Some time thereafter, probably upon retirement, they moved to Belton, Missouri where they lived until their deaths and were buried in Belton Cemetery.
The bio is courtesy of "Belton Remembers" #48220762
US Army
Grayson Hufford Barnett was born in 1894 in Grayson, Missouri. The middle child of three brothers, Grayson was only eleven years old when he lost his mother in 1905. Eight years later when Grayson was 19, his father effectively started life over when he remarried a young widow, Amelia Mitchell with two children, and moved the entire family to Colorado.
Five years after the move, with the United States entering World War I, Grayson and both of his brothers entered the service. According to Colorado Adjutant General records, Jack and Stanley were assigned to infantry units while Grayson was assigned as a cook in the Quartermaster Corps. Of the three brothers, Grayson would be the only one to return. His brother Jack was killed in action on October 8, 1918 during the Argonne Offensive and his other brother Stanley died one week after the war was over, of causes that are not clear. Another Belton-related veteran who died in France after the war had ended was a victim of the influenza epidemic that was raging at the time.
When Grayson returned from the war, he lived and worked as a hired hand on a ranch in Colorado near his father's for a while. It was on that ranch that he met Gertrude Delight Dawkins, his employer's daughter, who would later become his wife. By the time of the 1930 Census, Grayson and Gertrude had returned to Grayson's native state of Missouri and had been married for nine years. Census data show them still farming in 1940. Some time thereafter, probably upon retirement, they moved to Belton, Missouri where they lived until their deaths and were buried in Belton Cemetery.
The bio is courtesy of "Belton Remembers" #48220762
Veteran of World War I
US Army
Grayson Hufford Barnett was born in 1894 in Grayson, Missouri. The middle child of three brothers, Grayson was only eleven years old when he lost his mother in 1905. Eight years later when Grayson was 19, his father effectively started life over when he remarried a young widow, Amelia Mitchell with two children, and moved the entire family to Colorado.
Five years after the move, with the United States entering World War I, Grayson and both of his brothers entered the service. According to Colorado Adjutant General records, Jack and Stanley were assigned to infantry units while Grayson was assigned as a cook in the Quartermaster Corps. Of the three brothers, Grayson would be the only one to return. His brother Jack was killed in action on October 8, 1918 during the Argonne Offensive and his other brother Stanley died one week after the war was over, of causes that are not clear. Another Belton-related veteran who died in France after the war had ended was a victim of the influenza epidemic that was raging at the time.
When Grayson returned from the war, he lived and worked as a hired hand on a ranch in Colorado near his father's for a while. It was on that ranch that he met Gertrude Delight Dawkins, his employer's daughter, who would later become his wife. By the time of the 1930 Census, Grayson and Gertrude had returned to Grayson's native state of Missouri and had been married for nine years. Census data show them still farming in 1940. Some time thereafter, probably upon retirement, they moved to Belton, Missouri where they lived until their deaths and were buried in Belton Cemetery.
The bio is courtesy of "Belton Remembers" #48220762
US Army
Grayson Hufford Barnett was born in 1894 in Grayson, Missouri. The middle child of three brothers, Grayson was only eleven years old when he lost his mother in 1905. Eight years later when Grayson was 19, his father effectively started life over when he remarried a young widow, Amelia Mitchell with two children, and moved the entire family to Colorado.
Five years after the move, with the United States entering World War I, Grayson and both of his brothers entered the service. According to Colorado Adjutant General records, Jack and Stanley were assigned to infantry units while Grayson was assigned as a cook in the Quartermaster Corps. Of the three brothers, Grayson would be the only one to return. His brother Jack was killed in action on October 8, 1918 during the Argonne Offensive and his other brother Stanley died one week after the war was over, of causes that are not clear. Another Belton-related veteran who died in France after the war had ended was a victim of the influenza epidemic that was raging at the time.
When Grayson returned from the war, he lived and worked as a hired hand on a ranch in Colorado near his father's for a while. It was on that ranch that he met Gertrude Delight Dawkins, his employer's daughter, who would later become his wife. By the time of the 1930 Census, Grayson and Gertrude had returned to Grayson's native state of Missouri and had been married for nine years. Census data show them still farming in 1940. Some time thereafter, probably upon retirement, they moved to Belton, Missouri where they lived until their deaths and were buried in Belton Cemetery.
The bio is courtesy of "Belton Remembers" #48220762
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