Brief Life History of Thomas Jefferson
When Thomas Jefferson Barnes was born on 2 May 1882, in Alabama, United States, his father, William M Barnes, was 24 and his mother, Ethal Dorcus Steele, was 25. He married Malinda E "Ada" Stallings on 17 May 1900, in Ider, DeKalb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Albemarle, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1941 and Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States in 1941. He died on 16 March 1941, in North Albemarle Township, Stanly, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Richfield, Stanly, North Carolina, United States.
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- Thomas Barnes in household of James M Stallings, "United States Census, 1900"
- Thomas Barnes, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Thomas J. Barnes, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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