Joseph Barnett (1887)Joseph Barnett, farmer and stock dealer, was born in 1843, in Gallatin County, Ill., one of six children of Zadok and Malinda (Choat) Barnett. The father, a farmer, born about 1809 in Tennessee, came to Gallatin aounty when a young man, and afterward owned 240 acres on part of which our subject now lives, and remained until his death in 1859. The mother, born in 1809 in Gaallstin aounty, died in 1851. Our subject owns 120 acres of fine land. In 1868 he was married to Sidney A., daughter of Thomas and Lutitia Patton, and born in 1848 in Hardin County, Ill. She died in Gallatin County, Ill., April 2, 1879. Their five children are Albert C., Mary, Sarah J., Mellie M. and John T. In October, 1861, enlisting in Company F, Sixth Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, he was, on account of disability, honorably discharged in April, 1862. He is a Republican, and his wife is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. [1887. History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties, Illinois. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 526-527.] is maintained by Jon Musgrave. © 1998 You are our 1945 visitor — thanks for stopping by! |