William Barnes
William Eliot Barnes, Male 21 September 1832 - 14 January 1925
Born, Dracut, Massachusetts.
Died, Los Angeles, California.
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. L1, Ed. 1, Tree #0022, Date of Import: Apr 29, 2003]ne E. Hemphill1, 1832, although the cemetery record gives the year as 1833. He was raised in the township of Dracut, Mass., which lies west of the city of Lowell. Barnes' parents are said to have died when he was very young and he was raised in another family. One of his friends in Dracut was George Cutter, a boy of about Barnes' age, who was the eldest of the six children of John P. Cutter, (my great grandfather). Children of both households attended the same school and church in Dracut.nd Cutter was already settled on a claim of virgin land, having joined his uncles Charles and Asa Varnum there in 1854. To help earn their living that winter, the two young men taught a term of a few weeks of school. George's 18 year old cousin, Frank Varnum, of Blue Hill, Maine, also spent the winter there.l, in the Coal Creek valley south of Lawrence, they set up housekeeping with another young man, John Walton, from Pennsylvania, in a cabin in the north half of the northwest quarter of Sec. 10, Twp. 14, Rg. 20, Varnum took the southeast quarter of that section, and Cutter selected the northwest quarter of Sec. 15, adjoining Barnes quarter on the south. This formed the nucleus of what later became Vinland but was then called Coal Creek. In the years that followed, Cutter and Varnum became diversified farmers, while Barnes established a prosperous nursery and fruit farm.am E. Barnes was united in marriage to Gertrude Adelia Dunn, ninth child of Jonathan and Irena (Clark) Dunn. She was born on February 25, 1845, at Galena, Jo Davies Co., Illinois. Gertie was a younger sister of Marilda Dunn, who in 1865 gave such a hilarious account of her ride home from DeSoto. The marriage took place at the Dunn home at Sulphur Springs, located in the northeast quarter of Sec. 26, Twp. 14, Rg. 20. Gertie's sister Nancy and John Hight Ellerton were married the same day and place but by a different minister. Both girls were dressed in white and carried flowers from William's gardens. Attendants for William and Gertrude were George Cutter and Katie Gall. Attendants for John and Nancy were Jack Gill and Laura Campbell. (Katie and Jack Gill were sister and brother to Elizabeth Ann -- Mrs. Barzilla Dunn -- and to Wm. H. Gill, my step-grandfather).tead. However, George's mother, Charlotte, in whose name the land was recorded at the sale of public lands in 1860, sold 40 acres in the northwest corner of her farm to John W. McMillan and his wife Mary in May 1867. A year and half later, Barnes bought the piece.ice had been granted. George Cutter was named postmaster and the Cutter home was equipped to serve as the post office. It already housed the Coal Creek Library, so it was a natural gathering place for people of the neighborhood. No doubt Barnes had some influence in naming the post office "Vineland" (pronounced as vineyard) but when the authorization came from Washington, D. C., the name was spelled "Vinland".own of Vinland, Kansas was not formally platted and dedicated until 1884. At this time 310 feet off the west side of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Sec. 15, Twp. 14, Rg. 20 were added to complete the town site. The Cutter farm then belonged to Albert F. Allen. In 1900 Mr. Barnes offered to give a lot to the Coal Creek Library Association on which to build a permanent library building. This time his generosity was not accepted because of the "strings" attached. He wanted the name changed to "Vinland Library." In 1916, however, Mr. Barnes gave four acres of land in the southeast corner of his farm and $150.00 to the newly organized Vinland Rural High School District No. 1, one of the first schools to provide training in vocational agriculture under the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917.operty in the town site of Vinland to various organizations, such as the Methodist and Presbyterian churches and the Grange, he may well have been called "Mr. Vinland," to coin a phrase. All the neighborhood children called him "Uncle B" and he loved them, as he had no children of his own. According to various accounts, he was respected and greatly revered in the community -- as he entered the church on Sabbath, the people stood to express this feeling.ribed her as "A great sufferer." Although the Vinland Cemetery had been started in 1873, Mrs Barnes had expressed a wish to be buried at her beautiful home. Knowing that this land must some day pass into the hands of strangers, and wishing to bury her where there would be perpetual care, Mr. Barnes purchased Lot 89 in Section 2 on the east side of Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas. On the stone he had these words engraved, "To live in the hearts of those we leave behind us is not to die."ed by various hired hands, among whom was his niece Elsie Thomas' husband, Fred Woods, son of Al Woods. In about 1920, the Woods family moved to California and persuaded "Uncle B" to go with them. Here he lived the remaining years of his life, being cared for during the last 7 or 8 months by his niece, Maude Ellerton Hemmingway. He died on January 14, 1925 in Los Angeles and was buried beside his wife Gertrude in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kansas.na M. Dunn of Leloupe, Kansas. She has also kindly provided some of this biographical material.[Brøderbund WFT Vol. L1, Ed. 1, Tree #0022, Date of Import: 23 Dec 2004]ne E. Hemphill1, 1832, although the cemetery record gives the year as 1833. He was raised in the township of Dracut, Mass., which lies west of the city of Lowell. Barnes' parents are said to have died when he was very young and he was raised in another family. One of his friends in Dracut was George Cutter, a boy of about Barnes' age, who was the eldest of the six children of John P. Cutter, (my great grandfather). Children of both households attended the same school and church in Dracut.nd Cutter was already settled on a claim of virgin land, having joined his uncles Charles and Asa Varnum there in 1854. To help earn their living that winter, the two young men taught a term of a few weeks of school. George's 18 year old cousin, Frank Varnum, of Blue Hill, Maine, also spent the winter there.l, in the Coal Creek valley south of Lawrence, they set up housekeeping with another young man, John Walton, from Pennsylvania, in a cabin in the north half of the northwest quarter of Sec. 10, Twp. 14, Rg. 20, Varnum took the southeast quarter of that section, and Cutter selected the northwest quarter of Sec. 15, adjoining Barnes quarter on the south. This formed the nucleus of what later became Vinland but was then called Coal Creek. In the years that followed, Cutter and Varnum became diversified farmers, while Barnes established a prosperous nursery and fruit farm.am E. Barnes was united in marriage to Gertrude Adelia Dunn, ninth child of Jonathan and Irena (Clark) Dunn. She was born on February 25, 1845, at Galena, Jo Davies Co., Illinois. Gertie was a younger sister of Marilda Dunn, who in 1865 gave such a hilarious account of her ride home from DeSoto. The marriage took place at the Dunn home at Sulphur Springs, located in the northeast quarter of Sec. 26, Twp. 14, Rg. 20. Gertie's sister Nancy and John Hight Ellerton were married the same day and place but by a different minister. Both girls were dressed in white and carried flowers from William's gardens. Attendants for William and Gertrude were George Cutter and Katie Gall. Attendants for John and Nancy were Jack Gill and Laura Campbell. (Katie and Jack Gill were sister and brother to Elizabeth Ann -- Mrs. Barzilla Dunn -- and to Wm. H. Gill, my step-grandfather).tead. However, George's mother, Charlotte, in whose name the land was recorded at the sale of public lands in 1860, sold 40 acres in the northwest corner of her farm to John W. McMillan and his wife Mary in May 1867. A year and half later, Barnes bought the piece.ice had been granted. George Cutter was named postmaster and the Cutter home was equipped to serve as the post office. It already housed the Coal Creek Library, so it was a natural gathering place for people of the neighborhood. No doubt Barnes had some influence in naming the post office "Vineland" (pronounced as vineyard) but when the authorization came from Washington, D. C., the name was spelled "Vinland".own of Vinland, Kansas was not formally platted and dedicated until 1884. At this time 310 feet off the west side of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Sec. 15, Twp. 14, Rg. 20 were added to complete the town site. The Cutter farm then belonged to Albert F. Allen. In 1900 Mr. Barnes offered to give a lot to the Coal Creek Library Association on which to build a permanent library building. This time his generosity was not accepted because of the "strings" attached. He wanted the name changed to "Vinland Library." In 1916, however, Mr. Barnes gave four acres of land in the southeast corner of his farm and $150.00 to the newly organized Vinland Rural High School District No. 1, one of the first schools to provide training in vocational agriculture under the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917.operty in the town site of Vinland to various organizations, such as the Methodist and Presbyterian churches and the Grange, he may well have been called "Mr. Vinland," to coin a phrase. All the neighborhood children called him "Uncle B" and he loved them, as he had no children of his own. According to various accounts, he was respected and greatly revered in the community -- as he entered the church on Sabbath, the people stood to express this feeling.ribed her as "A great sufferer." Although the Vinland Cemetery had been started in 1873, Mrs Barnes had expressed a wish to be buried at her beautiful home. Knowing that this land must some day pass into the hands of strangers, and wishing to bury her where there would be perpetual care, Mr. Barnes purchased Lot 89 in Section 2 on the east side of Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas. On the stone he had these words engraved, "To live in the hearts of those we leave behind us is not to die."ed by various hired hands, among whom was his niece Elsie Thomas' husband, Fred Woods, son of Al Woods. In about 1920, the Woods family moved to California and persuaded "Uncle B" to go with them. Here he lived the remaining years of his life, being cared for during the last 7 or 8 months by his niece, Maude Ellerton Hemmingway. He died on January 14, 1925 in Los Angeles and was buried beside his wife Gertrude in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kansas.na M. Dunn of Leloupe, Kansas. She has also kindly provided some of this biographical material.
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