When James Claude Barnett was born on 7 October 1896, in Scott, Virginia, United States, his father, John Anson Barnett, was 38 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Ford, was 21. He married Cosby Lee Lane on 21 June 1918, in Scott, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Massies Mill, Nelson, Virginia, United States in 1930 and Taylor District, Scott, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 17 February 1988, in Duffield, Scott, Virginia, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Powell Valley Memorial Gardens, Big Stone Gap, Wise, Virginia, United States.
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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 .
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