Larken Barnes b 7-24-1806 KY. d 11-1885 in Azusa, L.A.Co.CA.
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Larkin Barnes Marries Tilpha Lawson in 1833 or 1834
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Author: leigh johnston Date: 2 Oct 2000 12:00 PM GMT
I am looking for the Jacob/Mary Lawson family, which came to Montgomery Co., ca l827. Two of their daughters, Lavinia & Tilpha/Zilpha married in 1833 and 1834 to Larkin Barnes & George W. Williams in what was Montgomery Co, but, is now Warren Co, Elkhart Twp. Their son, Isaac, married Jane Hubbard, daughter of Charles and Jemima, however, I can find no marriage cert. Jacob and Mary moved to Pulaski Co, ca l835, Charles & Jemima Hubbard moved to Pike Co., Ill ca l830-l835 and Isaac & Jane moved, first to Pike Co. and then to Pulaksi. Any info on these families? Thanks
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Larkin Barnes Marries Tilpha Lawson in 1833 or 1834
Subject: Larken S. Barnes first wife was Tilpha Lawson
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Rev. 03-25-04
The Biogeography of
Larken Sanders Barnes
Born in 1806,
Boone County, Kentucky.
By Mark M. Wakefield His Great Great Grandson.
Larken S. Barnes or Sanders Larken Barnes was born July 24, 1806 Boone County, Kentucky. He died in November 1885 in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. His dad was James Barnes born in 1779 in Madison County, Kentucky. James Barnes mother and father are not known. Larken S. Barnes mother was Sarah Callaway she was born in 1793 in Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky. Sarah Callaway’s father was Flanders Callaway he was born December 09, 1752 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Sarah Callaway’s mother was Jemima Boone was born October 04, 1762 in the Yadkin River Valley, Rowan County, North Carolina. Jemima Boone’s fathers name was Daniel Boone, and her mothers name was Rebecca Bryan. James Barnes most likely meets Jemima Boone in the 1790’s in Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky. The lack of marriage records for James Barnes may very well be because so many of the families of Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky were moving to the French controlled Missouri territory.
Larken S. Barnes first wife was Tilpha Lawson born in Abt. 1804 in Missouri. They were married in February 21, 1835 Warren County, Missouri. I don’t know who he mother of dad was for Tilpha Lawson. I did look at Lawson’s in Warren and Carroll County’s, Missouri. Tilpha Lawson-Barnes had children how many is not known James Coleman Barnes is born 1836 and died April 08, 1894 Browns Valley, Yuba Co. California he was living in Browns Valley in close support of the Barnes family. Some said they were in to gold in Browns Valley, Yuba County. Well this is a short story and so was his, dead at 58 years old. He could be Larken S. Barnes son from this marriage we really don't know why he's living with Larken S. Barns in Texas in 1850.
Elizabeth Bohannan-Jones-Barnes was the second marriage She was born December 14, 1826 Jackson, AL and razed in Williamson, IL. Then moved to California in 1859 then died in 1878 Azusa, Los Angeles, CA and was first married to David Jones he was born Abt. 1825 KY. and died Aft. 1851 in Williamson, IL.. They were married in June 24, 1847 Marion, Williamson, IL. Their first child was Mary J. Jones she was born 1849 and a brother Jonathan C. Jones born 1851. The two of these children were referred to as Barnes children in the next marriage and the 1860 census. We are left to think that there dad David Jones died in Williamson, IL.. Elizabeth the widow moved back to her Bohannan family. Then her Bohannan family moved to Texas. By 1854 Elizabeth Jones the widow, with two Jones children were in Tarrant district, of Ellis County, Texas with her Bohannan brothers. I have found no marriage records for Larken S. Barnes. There first child was Sarah Elizabeth Barnes was born May 24, 1855 Texas, William Penland Barnes born October 25, 1857 Texas, Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes born May 05, 1861 California, last child William Panther Barnes born Abt. December 20, 1862 California.
Descendants of Larkin S. Barnes
1. LARKIN S.2 BARNES (JAMES1) was born July 24, 1806 in Boone County, Kentucky and died November 1885 in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California.
2. He met (1) TILPHA LAWSON February 21, 1835 in Warren County; Missouri
3. He married (2) ELIZABETH BOHANNAN 1854 in Prob. Cole Co. in Missouri or Ellis. Co., or Tarrant Co. in Texas, daughter of JOHN BOHANNON and MARY GAZAWAY.
ELIZABETH2 BOHANNAN (JOHN1) was born February 18, 1829 in Jackson, Alabama, and died 1878 in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California.
1. ELIZABETH2 BOHANNAN’S first marriage was to (1) DAVID JONES in Pos. in Mo.
2. ELIZABETH2 BOHANNAN and LARKIN. BARNES married in 1854. In Mo. in probably Warren, or Cole County, Or in the best bet Ellis, or Tarrant County, Texas.
Children of ELIZABETH BOHANNAN’S first marriage to DAVID JONES are:
i. JONATHAN C.3 JONES, born 1848 or 1851 in Illinois? When he died in not known.
MARY G. JONES, is ELIZABETH BOHANNAN’S second child she was born 1849 in Illinois. When MARY died, not known? MARY G. JONES marred FRANK DOWNS, before 1889, in Pos Los Angeles County, California. MARY G. JONES she is shown Living with her brother “JONATHAN”, mother and step father Larkin Barnes In the 1860, federal census in El Monte, California. The two children are shown as Barnes children.
Children of ELIZABETH BOHANNAN and LARKIN BARNES are:
2. iii. SARAH "ELLEN"3 BARNES, b. May 01, 1855, Navarro, Navarro County, Texas; d. October 24, 1942, Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County, California.
3. iv. WILLIAM PENLAND BARNES, b. October 25, 1857, Tarrant County, Texas; d. October 02, 1936, Azusa b. in Oakdale Cem. Asuza, Los Angeles County, California.
4. v. CYNTHIA ELIZABETH BARNES, b. May 05, 1861, El Monte, Los Angeles County, California; d. February 18, 1946, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California.
vi. WILLIAM" PANTHER BARNES, b. 1862, El Monte, Los Angeles County, California died 1928, In Mo. Burred in Oakdale, Glendora, Los Angeles County, California..
Notes for WILLIAM PANTHER BARNES:
William's grave in Oakdale, Glendora is marked W. L. Barns 1851—1931. Note, he was born in 1862.
He is burred by the front gate of Oakdale. His friends and family knew him as “Uncle BUDDY”. William Panther Barnes from an early age seamed to have some very simple, yet profound thinking problems
The French Government offered Daniel Boone a very large land grant. Daniel Boone’s land grant was in today’s state of Missouri. The agreement was Daniel Boone would live on and improve this vast track of wilderness land. The French Government granted this land to Daniel Boone because they wanted the settlement of this land, by those would develop wilderness land and build farms and cities this settlement was known as Marthasville. This land grant was before the Louisiana Purchase was made in the year of 1803. Boone had proven to the world he could build in Kentucky. Daniel Boone would have to become a catholic and a French citizen. The next early frontier to be settled by Daniel Boone would be the back woods of Missouri. The start of the 1800’s saw Daniel Boone’s Boonesboro emptying out and moving out of Kentucky and family’s moving west. Daniel Boone use to say it was time to move when you could smell smoke from some one’s chimney, and Kentucky was getting crowed. The family tradition states that most of the women came westward perhaps by wagon and most certainly by land. The men tried to pack freight and move it down the Ohio River. There was no easy pathway to go for these travelers.
From notes;
Marthasville was described in the gazetteer of Missouri in 1883 as; "First settled in 1801 by Colonel Daniel Boone and his son-in-law, Flanders Calloway, and known then as Calloway's Post, located near the Missouri River, in the southeastern part of Warren County, 20 miles southeast of Warrenton, the county seat, 5 miles north of Washington, on the MP Route, 60 miles west of St. Louis, and one and one-half miles north of Marthasville Landing, on the Missouri River, the most convenient shipping point. The village contains saw, flour, and planking mills, all operated by steam. One Evangelical and three Methodist Churches, one German school, also white and colored public schools. Grain, livestock, and all kinds of farm produce are shipped in large quantities. Population, 350 Mail, tri-weekly. P.A. Quickert, postmaster.
Jemima and Flanders Calloway were in Charette in the 1817 St. Charles census, and the 1819 Montgomery Co., tax list. There home was originally near Marthasville and has since been moved to the original Nathan Boone home where it is awaiting reconstruction. Just before Daniel Boone died he was living with Jemima and Flanders. He traveled a short distance to visit and stay awhile in the home of his son Nathan, where he died. Marthasville is located in the southern part of Warren County in the Missouri River Bottoms area. It is the oldest town in Warren County having succeeded the French Village, La Charette.
From W.S. Lester's "The Transylvania Colony, published in 1935, based upon "The Draper Manuscripts" copies lifted with out paper work. A student’s copy.
"History of Warren County" Warren county was organized Jan 5, 1833, out of the surplus territory of Montgomery county. The first settlement within its limits was made by some French emigrants, who built a village at the mouth of Charrette creek, at a date so early that we have no record of it, and who gave it the name of that stream. A fort was erected at that place during the Indian war, but both fort and village have long since disappeared, and the river washed the place where they stood away many years ago. DAVID BRYAN made the first American settlement within the limits of Warren County, in 1800. He built his cabin near the bank of Teuque Creek, on a hill overlooking the Missouri river bottom about a mile and a half southeast of Marthasville. Not many years afterward he built a double hewed log house, the first of the kind that was erected in that part of the country, and which at the time was considered a very fine structure. The boards of the roof were fastened to the rafters with wooden pins, because nails could not be procured. The next American settler in Warren Co. was FLANDERS CALLAWAY, who came about the same time Bryan did and built his cabin in the bottom about halfway between the bluff and river, and about half a mile from each.
All copies of the above notes lifted with out paper work a student’s copy.
Larken Barnes farmed in Warren & Carroll County, Missouri. His first marriage was to Tilpha Lawson in married 10 Dec. 1834 in Warren County, Missouri. The young Barnes family had two children one boy and one girl. His first wife Tilpha Lawson died leaving him with out a wife in Texas. Larken Barnes, and many others moved to Texas in about 1847. In the 1850 federal census, Larken Barnes is found living in the Tarrant district of Ellis County, Texas. Larken Barnes is living with his teenage son James Coleman Barnes. In Texas Larken Barnes acquired over 1,100 acres of land in the Peters Colony land grant; certificate # 238 to Larken Barnes 640 archers he is listed, as a widower with one child. This certificates date was May 10, 1850 survey date Feb. 3 1851. By virtue of certificate # 238 abstract # 113 Patent # 484 vol. 10. Peters colony a northern Texas empresario land grant made by the Republic of Texas to W.S. Peters & associates. Many early settlements in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Grayson, & Tarrant County’s were made by land grant of the Republic of Texas. It was great to see Larken Barnes name on the survey notes as a chainman on many of the survey teams. Perhaps he was a man with good math.
When the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was drawn up in 1848. The borderline was drawn with little consideration for railroads traversing Texas thru to Southern California. The United States Government and big business interests wanted a railroad from the Mississippi thru the Southwest and end in Southern California. Railroads passage thru mountains of the southwest was just an about impassable with the engineering equipment of the day. The Grand Canyon is just another geographic feature that imposes trouble for railroad passage. The political trouble with the American Indians of the South West was instable and unresolved. The political relationships of the early Spanish settlers with the Indian tribes of the southwest were successful with only some of the tribes. The Apache tribe north the boarder stayed at war and never joined in the settlement of a Spanish agrarian mission society. The Butterfield Stage route was drawn thru the southwest over many trails of the famous explorers of the southwest. Thus the Butterfield Stage route traveled over the geographic terrain using the wisdom found by the early explorers. This trail was traveled only people of the boldest of ambitions. After all riding a stage thru the South West was a teeth-rattling, kidney beating trip for the late 1840’s. By 1853 the United States had bought the Gadsden Purchase form Mexico with hopes for a railroad thru the South West to Southern California.
During the war like out break of hostility’s in Laurence Kansas in 1854 truly Kansas became a “Bleeding Kansas.” The unsettling chance that a war was to break out over slavery razed its ugly head. The thought of bringing a railroad to non-slavery the gold rich state of California. Just for the benefit of southern plunder. Could never settle well with the northern government of big money and banks. The construction of a railroad in the southwest world have to be set aside till the question of slavery was settled.
Those who made the settlement of California for the longest time were a die-hard breed of men and women. These men and women had trekked long hard distains across hard barren terrain dragging cart and wagon moving heavy loads with offend with oxen moving forward no faster than a ox could walk with large load. Then there were the Boston’s the men of trade and barter from the sea. It was there task to sail the high seas right a round the horn of South America.
A popular pioneer song of the times;
They swam the wide rivers and crossed the tall peaks,
And camped on the prairie for weeks upon weeks.
Starvation and cholera and hard work and slaughter.
They reached California spite hell and high water.
Larken Barnes married Elizabeth Bohanan in about 1854 in Texas. Elizabeth’s fathers name was John Bohanan was born December 30, 1799 in Oglethorpe, GA. he died September 04, 1844 in Williamson, IL. The mother Mary (Polly) Ann Gazaway was born in 1802 in Greenville, S.C. died after 1860 in IL. The father John Bohannan married Mary (Polly) Ann Gazaway on September 05, 1824 in Marion, AL. The Bohannan’s had 5 children; George Washington Bohannan born August 30, 1825, Elizabeth Bohannan born December 14, 1826, Mary Ann Bohannan born February 18, 1829, John Preston Bohannan born June 11, 1831, Celia Jane Bohannan born Abt. 1835, Edward E. Bohannan born Abt. 1840, Arnett G. Bohannan born 1843.
After John Bohanan’s death in 1844 his son’s ran to Texas in 1847 to get in on some of that land. About 1859 the Bohanan’s are moving to southern California George Washington Bohannan is found in the 1860 federal census records of EL Monte. On Roll M 653_59 Page 262 Year 1860 just a few names under Larkin S. Barnes. Larkin S. Barnes married George W. Bohannan sister Elizabeth George stayed with her in so many ways. I wonder if they traveled to California In the same wagon train? Just what inspired the two families to move up the San Gabriel Valley to the Azusa land is not known. However Larken S. Barnes moved up to Azusa in 1868.
In 1859 Larken and Elizabeth Bohanan-Barnes had two children under the age of four years old one girl and one boy, there were also two older children from the first marriage. Larken Barnes sold his land and packed his belongings then made the move thru the southwest to come to California. He may have traveled with other associated family names such as the Bohanan’s. Larken Barnes is shown living in El Monte’s 1860 federal census records. Our family tradition states that Larken Barnes and George Bohannan were living on land next to the San Gabriel River just up river of the Whittier Narrows area in today’s South El Monte. Larken Barnes, most certainty came to the San Gabriel Valley with the company of other southerners. There were many new families from Texas in the San Gabriel Valley, soon the San Gabriel Valley was know as little Texas.
William Penn Barnes Bio of family and Larken Barnes from;
US Gen Web Site, http://cagenweb.com/re/losangeles/ElMonteBios/BARNES_William.htmhttp://cagenweb.com/re/losangeles/ElMonteBios/BARNES_William.htm "El Monte From the Pioneer Days History and Biographical Sketches" Compiled and Written for The City of El Monte by The Works Progress Administration.
Brought to California from his birthplace in Dallas, Texas, when but two years of age, William P. Barnes is among the few remaining original pioneers of this district.
Born October 25, 1857, the son of S. L. Barnes, farmer, and a native of Kentucky, and Sarah E. (Bohannon) Barnes, a native of Illinois, William was brought to El Monte in 1859, in a covered wagon train comprising some one hundred and ten wagons. Indians stopped this train, drawn almost exclusively by ox-teams twice on the way but fortunately no casualties resulted. The first time they were stopped near Dead Man Springs, and the second time near Apache Pass, (now Camp Buoy). During the trip through the Indian country, the women would do the driving while the men went ahead and followed up the rear of the train to guard against sudden attacks. On each of the two occasions mentioned, the Indians appeared, circled the train three times on horseback and then, evidently deciding that they were outnumbered and outmatched for a successful attack, they rode away. At Yuma, the train divided, some going to San Diego, and the remainder continued to El Monte, the Mecca of a large majority of the California-bound immigrants of that day. Here in El Monte Mr. Barnes’ father engaged for a number of years in farming, William, the subject of this review, attending the early public school of El Monte. In this connection Mr. Barnes states that his first teacher was a Mr. Dilley, who was paid a wage of $2.50 per month, by the parents for each child, free board during the time being provided by different families in the district.
In 1868, Mr. William Penland Barnes’ parents moved to a 160-acre tract in Azusa Valley where, upon attaining his majority, William followed a farming for a time then in 1886 entering the real estate business, which though in poor health, he still continues to manage in the town of Azusa.
Mr. William Penland Barnes was married in 1884 to Miss Mary Blanche Hudson, a native of Tennessee, whose parents were Thomas H. and Martha Ellen Hudson, natives Mississippi and Tennessee, respectively. To Mr. and Mrs. Barnes were born four children, but one of whom is still living, Irene Blanche, of Azusa. Mrs. Barnes was taken by death in 1898.
Mr. William Penland Barnes is affiliated with the order of Odd Fellows, and in religion both he and Mrs. Barnes are members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Barnes was active and influential in the early organization and development of the first church in El Monte.
Mr. William Penland Barnes has rendered many years of valuable services in his community, serving terms in the capacity of constable, school trustee and city councilman.
End of William Penland Barnes Bio
Times were hard in California’s new land. When the next year’s group of new settlers arrived from Texas they came to El Monte, Los Angeles County, California to see Larken Barnes and family. They and found them living in rags and looking so thin. The group of new settlers from Texas had hopped to see a California family of wealthy farmers. However at that time, the Barnes family was so poor they couldn’t buy cotton for clothing. There is nothing to support my thinking that Larken Barnes in the early 1860’s may have been waiting for the rest of the money offered in payment for his Texas Land. Isn’t interesting that when Larken Barnes buys his next farm In “Azusa” the land deal happens just 2 ½ years after the Civil War in 1868. That would make your shoe leather run real thin.
By William Barns account in 1868 the family moved from El Monte to Azusa in the upper San Gabriel Valley, of Los Angeles County, California. At that time there were only six family’s living in the San Gabriel Valley around Azusa at that time. Mother, Elizabeth Bohannan-Barnes died in 1878 she was buried at Fairmont cemetery in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. She was the mother of four of the last of the Barnes children. Born in this order Sarah Ellen Barnes, May 01, 1855 Texas, William Penland Barnes October 25, 1857, Texas. Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes May 05, 1861, California, last child was William Panther Barnes 1862, California.
Sarah Ellen Barnes married Oliver G. Malone June 21, 1874 his father was Perry Malone born 1814 in Kentucky. William Penland Barnes married Mary Blanch Hudson her father was Henry Hudson born 1834 in Mississippi. Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes married Morton T. Wakefield his fathers name was Samuel M. Wakefield born about 1816 in Pennsylvania. William Panther Barnes lived a short uneventful life and never lived to marry.
The 1880 federal census records in Azusa shows Larken Barnes with his son William P. Barnes and young daughter Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes there living in Azusa. Soon my great grand father Morton T. Wakefield shall take his second trip to California he shall come thru the southwest. Then meet his beloved Cynthia and marry her in Los Angeles County Court records before the justice of the peace in December 22, 1881.
Larken Sanders Barnes or Sanders Larken Barnes died November 1885. Father of six children, exploder of many a long dusty trail, a great warrior for the expansion of the Western United States. The buyer of land, good land at that, always the humble farmer, died after 75 years of age. He is buried in Fairmont Pioneer Cemetery in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. This pioneer graveyard is still there most of the oldest gravestones have been beaten down but there are many replacements. The city or the county doesn’t help keep this graveyard clean so we never know if it will be there at all when we get back to that knoll in the middle of the Old Foothill nursery on the eastern edge of Azusa.
I got a photo of the Larken Barnes gravestone. The year he is said to be born is 1801. 1801 to 1810 is the run of the possible numbers I find on the Internet. I sure don’t what is right. If he died in 1885 he was not over 85 years old was he!
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