William Calloway Barnett

Brief Life History of William Calloway

When William Calloway Barnett was born in 1829, in Perry, Alabama, United States, his father, Glenn Barnett, was 34 and his mother, Priscilla Day, was 26. He married Evalena Jemima Louisa Marshall in 1854, in Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Tallapoosa City, Tallapoosa, Alabama, United States in 1850. He died in 1862, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 33.

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William Calloway Barnett
1829–1862
Evalena Jemima Louisa Marshall
1840–1891
Marriage: 1854
John Hugh Winston Barnett
1855–1939
Joseph Foster Marshall Barnett
1859–1880

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  • William Barnett in household of Glen Barnett, "United States Census, 1850"

World Events (5)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from various places, for example Chipping (High) Barnet, East Barnet, and Friern Barnet in Greater London, named with Old English bærnet ‘place cleared by burning’ (a derivative of bærnan ‘to burn, to set light to’).

English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, a variant of Bernard .

Jewish (Ashkenazic): this surname has been adopted by Ashkenazic Jews in the English-speaking world, perhaps as an Anglicized form of a vaguely similar Jewish name such as Baruch .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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