When Mary Ann Barnes was born on 15 August 1864, in Dale, Alabama, United States, her father, Stephen Franklin Barnes, was 39 and her mother, Artimacy Bracewell, was 35. She married Robert "Henry" Clifton Williamson on 16 December 1880, in Grimes, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Grimes, Texas, United States in 1880. She died on 2 May 1918, in Marlin, Falls, Texas, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Marlin, Falls, Texas, United States.
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Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
English: habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), named with Old English bere-ærn ‘barn, a storehouse for barley and other grain’, or a topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn, granary’.
English: variant of Barne, with excrescent -s, derived from either the Middle English personal name Bern, Barn (based on the Scandinavian personal name Biǫrn or Old English Beorn, both from a word meaning ‘warrior’), or from Middle English barn (Old Norse barn) ‘child’. The latter term is found as a byname for men of the upper classes; it might also have had the meaning ‘young man of a prominent family’, like Middle English child (see Child ).
Irish: in Ireland in many cases this is no doubt the English name, but in others it is possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
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