Grace A. Barnes

Female1 December 1881–31 December 1918

Brief Life History of Grace A.

When Grace A. Barnes was born on 1 December 1881, in Schuyler, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Barnes, was 27 and her mother, Mary L Bennett, was 26. She married Gerald Amsden Tipton on 4 April 1906, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Queen City, Schuyler, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Bushnell, McDonough, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 31 December 1918, in Adams, Illinois, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Gerald Amsden Tipton
1884–1941
Grace A. Barnes
1881–1918
Marriage: 4 April 1906
Marsh Barnes Tipton
1909–1970
Maurice Eugene Tipton
1909–1958
Bennett Gerald Tipton
1914–1959

Sources (9)

  • Gracie A Barnes in household of Thomas J Barnes, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Grace Barnes Tipton, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Grace A. Barnes, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    4 April 1906Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
  • Children (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

    Age 1

    A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

    1885 · The First Skyscraper

    Age 4

    The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.

    1892 · The Chicago Canal

    Age 11

    The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.

    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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