When Joab Lawrence Barrett was born on 18 September 1818, in Moore, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Alston Barrett, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Hancock, was 23. He married Amanda Reynolds on 4 May 1841, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died on 31 August 1896, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Wilson, Tennessee, United States.
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English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
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Possible Related NamesJOAB LAWRENCE BARRETT According to family gossip, Joab Lawrence did not grow up to be a gentleman. Marjorie Barrett, a relative from Wilson County, Tennessee, said "The story goes that Lawrence went …
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