Brief Life History of Lafayette F
When Lafayette F Barnes was born on 4 April 1858, in Scott, Arkansas, United States, his father, Robert Laithe Barnes, was 42 and his mother, Frances Tucker, was 39. He married Emmaline Fite about 1879, in Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Choctaw Nation Reservation, Pushmataha, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Dow, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States in 1910.
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Sources (7)
- L F Barnie, "United States Census, 1900"
- L F Barnes in entry for Linzy Francis Barnes, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
- Lathum Barnes, "United States Census, 1910"
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World Events (8)
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1889
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
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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