Brief Life History of Maurice Runnels
When Maurice Runnels Barnes Sr was born on 1 January 1902, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, John George Moroni Barnes, was 41 and his mother, Miriam McFerson, was 43. He married Ellen Cornelia Neilson on 28 June 1930, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Little Washington, Washington Township, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1950 and Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1983. He died on 1 July 1983, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Maurice R Barnes, "United States 1950 Census"
- Unknown, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- Maurice Runnels Barnes, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1902 · The Utah Governor's Mansion
Built in 1902, the Utah Governor's Mansion is the official residence of the Governor of Utah and their family. The mansion was built using the finest materials by the finest craftsmen available, resulting in a quality and style like that of Eastern mansions. From 1957 to 1977, the Utah Historical Society occupied the mansion as a library, museum, and office space. In 1977, the residence underwent extensive renovations and was again reopened in 1980. In December 1993, a fire destroyed much of the mansion but, after another restoration, the historic building was restored to its original design with upgrades in case of another disaster threatened the home. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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