Octavius Barnes

Male26 August 1861–

Brief Life History of Octavius

When Octavius Barnes was born on 26 August 1861, in Ohio, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Barns, was 35 and his mother, Rebecca Jane Morgan, was 41. He married Serena Ellen Lamb on 11 March 1884, in Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Union District, Marshall, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States in 1910.

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Family Time Line

Octavius Barnes
1861–
Serena Ellen Lamb
1860–
Marriage: 11 March 1884
Robert Vernon Barnes
1890–1965
Paul Richard Barnes
1892–1952

Sources (5)

  • Octavus Barnes in household of William Barnes, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Fane Barnes, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Octavious Barnes, "United States Census, 1900"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    11 March 1884Lee, Iowa, United States

    • Children (2)

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    Siblings (8)

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    World Events (8)

    1863

    Age 2

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    1863

    Age 2

    "West Virginia was given statehood status with the ""agreement"" the citizens would phase out slavery. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Statehood Bill for West Virginia. West Virginia was proclaimed a state on April 20, 1863, with the bill becoming effective 60 days later, June 20, 1863. When West Virginia first entered statehood in 1863, there were only 46 counties. That same year, four other counties voted themselves into West Virginia. Today, there are 55 counties in the Mountain State. The oldest county in the state is Hamsphire County formed in 1754 as part of Virginia. The youngest county is Mingo formed in 1895. The smallest county is Hancock located in the northern panhandle of the state with Randolph being the largest. When the Legislature convened for its first session, there were only 47 members of the House of Delegates and 18 members of the State Senate. Through the years, the number has increased to 100 members of the House of Delegates and 34 members of the State Senate."

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Age 35

    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

    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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