Brief Life History of Lydia Minerva
Lydia Minerva Barnes was born on 11 February 1804, in Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States as the daughter of James William Barnes and Christiana Frazier. She married Hilon Mead on 23 October 1823, in Licking, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Wayne Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 25 March 1888, in Van Buren Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Sigourney Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States.
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Sources (18)
- Minerva Mead in household of I F Bussing, "United States Census, 1880"
- Lydia Minerva Barnes, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Lidia M. Barnes, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
Spouse and Children
1801–1876 Male
1804–1888 Female
Children (9)
1825–1892 Female
1827–1894 Male
1827–1830 Female
1832–1912 Male
1833–1913 Male
+4 More Children
Parents and Siblings
1780– Male
– Female
Siblings (7)
1804–1888 Female
1806–1871 Male
1808–1879 Male
1808–1887 Female
1810– Female
+2 More Children
World Events (8)
1808
Age 4
1810 · Change of capital city
Age 6
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 26
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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