When Joseph Seth Barney was born on 17 August 1845, in Nauvoo Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Edson Barney, was 39 and his mother, Lillis Ballou, was 40. He married Nancy A Moody in 1868. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Nevada, United States in 1870 and Duchesne, Duchesne, Utah, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1858. He died on 25 December 1939, in Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Escalante Cemetery, Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: habitational name from Barney in Norfolk, which is probably named with an Old English personal name Bera (with genitive -n) + Old English ēg ‘island, dry ground in a marsh’.
English: from the personal name Barney, a pet form of Bernard .
Scottish: possibly from the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from bjǫrn ‘bear’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThe Barney name is said to have derived from the name (Berney) the sir name of a line of peer's seated at Reedham Co., Norfolk, England. The line established in America is thought to have sprung from …
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