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Clarence’s mother, Martha, first appears on the 1920 census, confirming that she was the wife of WC Hensen and that Clarence was his stepson.

1920: Civil District 2, McNairy, Tennessee

 
 
1910: Civil district No 2, McNairy County, Tennessee

So there were four Barnes children living with their mother Martha and step father W C Hensen in 1910. Together with the unnamed infant Hensen the census listed 6 children born to Martha.

However, the census states that Martha had seven children, all living. And from his birth record, we know that Clarence was the fifth child born to Martha. Therefore one child was not with the family on the day of the census, most probably the oldest child.

The 1910 census shows that Martha and WC Hensen had not yet been married a full year. It seems that the Barnes children’s father must have died sometime after the birth of Clarence in 1904 and before the birth of Burford Hensen in c1907. Or, given that Martha and Hensen had been married less than a year by the time of the 1910 census, was Burford mis named with the surname Hensen and he was actually a Barnes child? Either way, it is clear that Martha was left with young children to look after and provide for and she must have remarried fairly quickly.

Marriage of Martha Evelyn Barnes

Martha married WC Hensen on 26th August 1909.

The mar

One of my patrons and Barnes family researcher, Katharina Schlichtherle, came across this letter from Madeline “Maddy” Martin Crenshaw Barnes to her cousin Thomas Alston Martin (you may remember his portrait as formerly being labeled as “Jesse Sharpe Barnes”) in the Thomas Alston Martin papers, a collection that is held in the Swem Library at the College of William and Mary .

The letter has  a light, breezy almost cheerful tone as she probes her cousin for any tidbits about his love life, but just below the surface are some very serious issues.  The war grinds on, she doesn’t know where her husband is stationed (he had already been seriously wounded in the war and his brother Jesse was killed) nor had anyone heard from his younger brother for over two weeks, and one of their friends is a prisoner.

Here is Katharina’s  background research and  transcript of the letter:

“We are quite uneasy about Joshua, have not heard from him in over a fortnight. Well, cousin Tom, another year has closed and still no peace, but I hope it will come before the close of another. This time last year we were having quite a pleasant time in Wilson.”

Madeleine “Maddie” Martin Crenshaw Barnes was born in Nash County, North Carolina in 1842, the first child of Daniel Sanford Crenshaw and his wife Seignora Martin Crenshaw. By 1860, her family had moved to Cheraw in South Carolina. On February 08, 1864 she got married to 20-year-old Lieutenant William Sharpe Barnes, the adjutant of the 4 North Carolina Infantry Regiment. William was the sixth child and fourth son of Elias and Mahala Barnes who had a substantial farm near Stantonsburg. His older brother was Captain Jesse Sharpe Barnes who was killed at the battle of Seven Pines in May 1862. The families had apparently had connections before and obvi

When William Henry Barnes was born on 27 March 1893, in Farmington, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, his father, William Martin Barnes, was 37 and his mother, Missouri Frances Snyder, was 34. He married Ollie Lulu Pyatt on 3 July 1920, in Jefferson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. He lived in Perry Township, St. Francois, Missouri, United States in 1900 and St. Francois Township, St. Francois, Missouri, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 21 June 1961, in Marion Township, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Hillview Memorial Gardens, Farmington, St. Francois, Missouri, United States.

American jurist from Arizona (1843–1904)

This article is about the Illinois politician and Arizona Territorial judge. For other people with the same name, see William Barnes (disambiguation).

William Henry Barnes (May 14, 1843 – November 10, 1904) was an American jurist who served as Assistant Justice on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from 1885 till 1889.

Background

Barnes was born on May 14, 1843, in Hampton, Connecticut, to Eunice A. (Hubbard) and William Barnes. His father was a Yale-educated Presbyterian minister while his mother was related to Nathan Hale. The family moved to Alton, Illinois, when Barnes was 10. There, he was educated in public schools before graduating from Illinois College. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts, Barnes studied law at the University of Michigan where he graduated in 1865. He was admitted to the Illinois bar the next year. After leaving school he established a legal practice in Jacksonville, Illinois, where he specialized in corporate law. Among his clients was the Wabash Railroad. During the early 1860s he married Belle Jane Daily. The union produced one daughter, Josephine. Barnes' fraternal commitments included the Freemasons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

In Jacksonville, Barnes became active in Democratic party politics. From 1865 till 1885, he was a delegate to the party's state convention. Barnes was a delegate to the Illinois constitutional convention in 1870 and represented Morgan County in the Illinois General Assembly, in the Illinois House of Representatives, in 1872. He also represented Illinois at the 1876, 1880, and 1884 Democratic National Convention.

Associate Justice

After President Grover Cleveland was inaugurated, Adlai Stevenson I, Lyman Trumbull, and other members of the Illinois congressional delegation recommended Barnes for a t