Brief Life History of Samuel John Mills
When Samuel John Mills Barnes was born on 16 July 1825, in Chelsea, Orange, Vermont, United States, his father, John Barnes Jr, was 32 and his mother, Eunice F Hawley, was 33. He married Berilla Minerva Mann on 19 August 1850, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1860 and Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 40 years. He died on 2 April 1911, in Medford, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 85.
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- Samuel M Barnes, "United States Census, 1860"
- Samuel J. Mills Barnes, "Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Samuel J. M. Barnes, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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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.
1834 · Vermont Anti-Slavery Society is Formed
The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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