Brief Life History of Revel P
When Revel P Barnes was born on 24 June 1908, in Kentucky, United States, his father, John C Barnes, was 21 and his mother, Mary Park, was 18. He married Eugenia Smith on 4 August 1938, in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950 and Symsonia, Graves, Kentucky, United States in 1999. He died on 4 May 1992, in Marshall, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Benton, Marshall, Kentucky, United States.
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- Bevel Barnes, "United States Census, 1920"
- Revel Barnes, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Revel Park Barnes, "Kentucky, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1909 · The Ford Building
The Ford Building was one of the first high-rises to use a steel structural support system. It stands at 23 stories in total height and it held the title as tallest building in Detroit from 1908 until 1913.
1930 · The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel
The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is a highway tunnel that connects Detroit to Windsor and is the second busiest crossing between Canada and the United States, after the Ambassador Bridge. Motorcycles are prohibited from using the tunnel.
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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