California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


Elias Joel Barnett

Elias Joel Barnett - Son of Jesse and Lavinia Clark Barnett, was born in Pine Grove, in Lawrence County, 
Ohio, June 19, 1849, where he resided till the spring of 1851, when, with his parents, he moved to 
Hanging Rock, same county; and at the end of one year they moved to Haverhill, Scioto County. In 1854, 
with his parents, he crossed the plains to California, and settled in Pope Valley, and resided with his 
parents till 1875, when he began for himself, purchasing at that time his present estate, consisting of 
three hundred and twenty acres of land, where he has since been engaged in farming and stock raising. 
Mr. Barnett married October 10, 1875, Miss Anna Wallace, who was born in Benton County, Arkansas, 
March 23, 1849. By this union, they have Ida May, born August 18, 1876; Henry, born October 31, 1878; 
Ada Lena, born January 13, 1881.