Lucinda (Marshall) Barnes (1876 - 1944)

Born 27 Nov 1876 in Tuscarora, Nevada

Ancestors

Wife of Antrim Earl Barnes Sr. — married 8 Nov 1906 in Billings, Montana

Descendants

Died 13 Jun 1944 at age 67 in Holbrook, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Lucinda Marshall was born in Tuscarora, Fallen or Willow Creek [8], Nevada, a gold mining area that today is a ghost town, on November 27, 1876 [1,7,8] to George Washington and Sarah Marshall. She was the second child in what would become a family of 3 boys and 3 girls.[1,7] Shortly after she was born, the family moved to Virginia City, Montana.[1] Her father ran a freight line between Eagle Rock (now Idaho Falls, Idaho), the terminus of the Utah and Northern Railroad, and Butte, Montana, also supplying the mining camps in the Virginia City area.[8,14] The family may have lived in other places in these early days in Montana. The 1880 census has the family living at “Beaverhead River, Beaverhead Montana,” and her mother’s obituary[18] mentions that she had lived in Butte, which was most likely during this time. In 1880, Beaverhead River had a population of 1387, including 84 Chinese (based on the 1880 census).

In 1879, her father took a contract to carry mail and supplies to the army garrison in Yellowstone,[14] which had become the nation’s first National Park seven years earlier. The next year the family moved into Yellowstone Park itself and lived near the confluence of the Firehole River and Nez Perce Creek.[1,16] There her father was building a hotel, and the family spent the cold winter of 1880-1 in the unfinished building.[1,16] Thus Lucinda had the privilege of spending the early years of her childhood in the midst of the wonders of Yellowstone, easy walking distance to geysers, mud pots and hot springs, and in a forest filled with bears, deer, elk and bison.[14] According to her daughter, from a very young age Lucinda loved to draw, and was thrilled when a guest at the hotel gave her some crayons, paper and watercolors. Young as she was, Lucinda and her older sister helped at the hotel as well as helped care for their baby sister Rose, who was born that first winter in the Park.

When she was nine, the family moved again, but not far – to an area known as the “upper Madison,” the “Grayling Basin,” and later would become Hebgen Lake.[8,15] About nine miles north of the present town of West Yellowstone [24], and about three miles west of the boundary of the Park, the family homesteaded near where Grayling Creek entered the Madison River. About 25 years later that land would be covered with water when Hebgen dam was build 10 miles downstream on the Madison. The family got supplies from Virginia City, about 100 miles away. They raised cattle and horses[8] as well as game animals including elk, deer and mountain sheep.[15] Their father hired a tutor to provide his children a grade school education.[1] During part of the years on the Madison, Lucinda worked as a cook at the Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone, and also the Old Faithful Hotel when it was being constructed.[1] One year all the carpenters working on the hotel each gave her a dollar to go toward her education in art.[1]

When Lucinda was 17, her father was hurt when he was thrown from a wagon, the horses startled by a bear.[8] The family moved to Bozeman and Lucinda and her sister Belle went to Bozeman College.[1,8] Lucinda took courses in art and home economics.[8] This was followed by studying at the Art Institute in Chicago.[1,8] Later she would study art in Paris as well.[3]

During Lucinda’s studies, the family moved to Livingston, Montana. When Lucinda returned home she opened an art studio,[6] and gave lessons in hand painting china, oils and water colors.[8] The classes were large.[8] One day when she was messy and dirty from firing her china kiln, a friend dropped by to introduce her to Antrim Barnes,[8] whom she married on November 11, 1906.[5,7,8]

Antrim and Lucinda were married in Billings in the home of her sister Rose;[5] her brother Frank and about a dozen other people were present.[5] The couple initially lived in Livingston[5] but in 1907 moved to Lewistown.[8] There Lucinda immediately organized art classes and taught until her daughter Lucy was born late that year.[7,8] A year and a half later, a son, Antrim Jr. was born. Their mother continued to teach china painting, oil and water color and a series of hired girls took care of the children.[8]

In the spring of 1911, the family moved to Three Forks, Montana, bringing Lucinda’s china kiln along with them.[1] Her father, who had never fully recovered from his accident, also came to stay with them in Three Forks and lived in their home until he died in 1917.[1,7] They lived in a new house on the corner of 2nd and Hickory. In Three Forks Lucinda again organized art class.[8] She sent her art work to the Gallatin County Fair as well as the Montana State Fair in Helena and was always rewarded with cash and blue ribbons.[8] Lucinda and her husband both became very active in church and community affairs. They attended the Presbyterian church,[8] and Lucinda taught Sunday school and was involved in the Ladies Aid Society.[1] According to her daughter she was a devout Christian.[8] She was a Campfire Girls leader,[1] a member of the Women’s Club that help start the Three Forks Library,[1] and a charter member of the Three Rivers Chapter of Eastern Star at Three Forks.[3] Later she applied for membership in the Society of Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers.[10]

Besides her father, others from Lucinda’s family lived with them in Three Forks or lived nearby.[1] Her mother did practical nursing the area for many years.[1] Her brother Frank was a cattle dealer in Three Forks and lived with them frequently.[1] Her brothers Walter and George had farms or ranches in the area, Walter near Toston and George near Menard.[1]

Around 1929, Antrim and Lucinda were divorced. Lucinda remained in their home in Three Forks and kept up her work as an artist and art teacher. In 1932 she visited the sites of Washington DC, including art galleries.[12] She sent a card home to her son Antrim, “Visited Lee’s home with all the war relics and paintings. Coming into Washington is like Bear Trap (a canyon of the Madison River north of Ennis Lake) only different kind of trees. The Potomac is a beautiful river…”[12] A few years latter she visited England. In November of 1936, she gave a “very entertaining talk on her trip to England” to the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Helena.[11] Her travelogue was illustrated with some of her own sketches showing Hathaway’s home, Westminister Abbey, Warwick Castle and a number of other interesting historical spots she had visited.”[11] After the talk the women viewed more of Lucinda’s artwork, including paintings, hooked rugs and hand-painted china.[11] Lucinda was a frequent visitor to Helena [4,19] in the 1930’s and eventually moving there.[13]

Her daughter mentions[8] that for a while she lived with her son Antrim, and this may have been when he taught school in West Yellowstone in the 1936-7 and 37-38 school years. Lucinda purchased a cabin in West Yellowstone from Sam Eagle that had been built in the 1920’s. During the summers of 1936-1943, Lucinda operated an art shop in West Yellowstone, selling her artwork to Yellowstone Park tourists.[3,4] Thus in the latter years of her life Lucinda returned near to where she had lived as a child.

In 1944, her health began to fail rapidly.[8] Her son was in England in the service at the time, and so her daughter came to Montana to take her mother to her home in Pennsylvania.[8] Lucinda Marshall Barnes died June 13, 1944.[8, 20] Her funeral was held in Waynesburg Pennsylvania[3] and she is buried in the Rogersville cemetery near Holbrook Pennsylvania.[3,8]

Sources

1. “Antrim Earl Barnes, Lucinda M Barnes,” Lucy Barnes Lemmon, September 1981.

2. “Antrim E. Barnes,” Montana, Its Story and Biography,” Tom Stout, ed., Vol 2, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1921.

3. Obituary of Lucinda Barnes, Three Forks Montana newspaper, June 20, 1944

4. Obituary of Lucinda Barnes, The Independent Record (Helena), June 19, 1944

5. Marriage Certificate and ceremony register, A. E. Barnes and Lucinda Marshall, November 8, 1905.

6. Announcement of the marriage of AE Barnes and Lucinda Marshall, Montana (Livingston?) newspaper, November, 1905.

7. Pedigree of George Washington Marshall and Sarah Romrell compiled by Sam Eagle, mid-1970’s.

8. Two different biographies of Lucinda Marshall Barnes written by her daughter Lucy Barnes Lemmon, show WIllow Creek and Fallon as Lucinda's place of birth. Lucinda's US Passport, dated April 23, 1932, shows Tuscarora as her place of birth.

9. Quit Claim deeds of Lucinda Barnes for Three Forks and West Yellowstone property.

10. Lucinda Marshall, Application for membership in Society of Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers, August 19, 1931.

11. Independent Record (Helena) November 18, 1936.

12. Post card from Lucinda Barnes to her son Antrim, July 10, 1932.

13. Summer 1937 Helena phone directory. Lucinda's address is 827 11th Avenue.

14. Biographical statement of G. W. Marshall, recorded ~1885, in Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA, as copied by Sam Eagle March 19, 1975.

15. Frank Marshall, The Marshall Game Farm, draft submitted to bulletin of the Montana Fish and Game Department, undated.

16. Lee Whittlesey, “George Marshall’s Hotel,” Montana Magazine, Volume 30, 1980, pp 43-51.

17. notes by Rachel Barnes from reminiscences of AE Pat Barnes about his parents.

18. Obituary of Sarah Marshall, newspaper and date unknown.

19. Independent Record (Helena), May 1, 1938.

20. Decree Declaring Life Estate Terminated, 18th Judicial District Court, Gallatin County, Montana, August 20, 1956.

21. West Yellowstone was not established until 1908. The Marshall’s nearest neighbors were likely either at Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park or settlers on the other side of the Continental Divide in Idaho in the Henry’s Lake area – see “West Yellowstone’s 70th Anniversary, 1908-1978” by Sam Eagle.

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