Brief Life History of Wilford Shelton
When Wilford Shelton Barnes was born on 18 October 1867, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, John Richard Barnes, was 34 and his mother, Emily Shelton, was 32. He married Ellis Hillstead on 24 June 1897, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in World in 1914 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 16 July 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Wilfred Barnes, "United States Census, 1920"
- Wilford S. Barnes, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Barnes, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1868 · Impeach the President!
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
1868 · The Fourteenth Amendment
As one of the Reconstruction Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment addresses the rights and protections that all citizens of the United States have. The amendment also limits actions of state and local officials in all states.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
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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BIOGRAPHY OF WILFORD SHELTON BARNES
Wilford Shelton Barnes was born on 18 October 1867 in Kaysville, Davis, Utah Territory to John Richard and Emily Shelton Barnes. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints …
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