John Richard Barnes

Brief Life History of John Richard

When John Richard Barnes was born on 11 August 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Arthur Franklin Barnes Jr, was 27 and his mother, Amelia Tingey, was 26. He married Afton Johnson on 8 November 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and United States in 1949. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 4 April 1995, in Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Centennial, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Richard Barnes
1917–1995
Afton Johnson
1916–2005
Marriage: 8 November 1940
Kathryn Barnes
1942–2023
Jacquelyn Barnes
1948–1994

Sources (28)

  • John R Barnes, "United States 1950 Census"
  • John Richard Barnes, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • John Richards Barnes, "Utah, World War II Index to Army Veterans of Utah, 1939-1945"

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World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1918 · The Broadmoor Resort Opens

On June 29 1918, the much anticipated Broadmoor Resort opens. It is the handy work of entrepreneur Spencer Penrose.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

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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MEMORIES OF 1939 WEST GERMAN MISSIONARY EVACUATION By J. Richard Barnes

MEMORIES OF 1939 WEST GERMAN MISSIONARY EVACUATION By J. Richard Barnes The night of August 24, 1939, I arrived back in Frankfurt a/main, Germany, where I was serving as Secretary for the West Ger …

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