Isaac Newton Barnes (1823 - 1880)

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Died 20 Mar 1880 at age 56 in Bentons Ferry, Marion, West Virginia, United States

Biography

Isaac was born about 1823. He was the son of Abraham Barnes and Mary Hall. He passed away about 1880.

"ISAAC N. BARNES, son of Abraham Barnes, married Margaret O. Holland, a daughter of Allen Holland of Monongalia County, W.Va. When a young man Isaac Barnes drove his father’s team and was one of the “overland conductors” hauling merchandise in wagons from Pittsburgh to Fairmont and Clarksburg, before the advent of railroads. On one of these trips he “put up for the night,” at the home of Allen Holland a well-to-do farmer near Smithtown. During the evening he saw a pretty black-eyed lassie about sixteen years old. Two years afterward he took her home with him as his bride. Having secured a hundred acres of land in Pleasant Valley he had built a log house, and into this he brought his eighteen-year old bride. After the Morgantown and Bridgeport pike was built through Pleasant Va1ley he built a two-story frame house on the pike where he spent the balance of his life as a farmer and veterinary surgeon. He died March 20, 1880. Mrs. Barnes died July 7, 1904. The family consisted of three sons, named for the three old patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and five daughters as follows: Cordelia Ellen, b. Sept. 4, 1847, Olive J., b. Feb. 7, 1849, Deborah C., b. May 14, 1851, Mary A., b. Nov. 16, 1852, died Nov. 30, 1858, Abraham H., b. Jan. 30, 1855, Isaac A., b. Aug. 28, 1857, Ida M., b. April 23, 1859, and Jacob R., b. Oct. 26, 1860."

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36494696/isaac-n_-barnes

• http://wvancestry.com/ReferenceMaterial/Files/The_Barnes_Family_in_West_Virginia.pdf