James Barnes Sr
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James Barnes Sr (1733 - 1783)

James "Jimey" Barnes Sr
Born in Virginiamap
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Brother of
Husband of — married 1780 in Berkeley, James County, Virginiamap
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Died at about age 50 in Virginia, United Statesmap
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Biography

James was born in 1733 in Virginia. He was the son of William Barnes and Susannah (Maxey) Barnes.[1][2]

Inheritance: 1743 in Inherited one heifer from his grandmother, Susannah Gates Maxey/Goochland County, Royal Colony of Virginia.[3]

James 'Jimmy' Barnes Sr. was a Revolutionary War soldier in the Virginia Militia. He was active and in the muster rolls beginning 1778 through 1783 when he was killed.

He married Margaret Forster who was twenty years younger. They only had two children before his death: James Barnes Jr. (1781-1835) and Barnes (1782-1806). Both children continued to live with their mother when she remarried and migrated to Washington County, Tennessee which is located in the upper-most north-eastern part of Tennessee bordering Virginia (on the north) and North Carolina (on the east).

Because his wife Margaret Forster Barnes was younger than he she went on to marry Henry Ward Stevens of Frederick County, VA and they migrated to the area of Washington County, Tennessee that is now Johnson City where she had 7 additional children by her second husband.

In the will of William Barnes husband of Susannah Maxey Barnes and father of James 'Jimmie' Barnes (Sr.) he states that his son James 'Jimmy' Barnes was to receive 100 acres divided with his brother Francis from his marriage to Susannah (Maxey) Barnes.

Portraits of both Margaret Forrester Barnes Stevens and Henry Ward Stevens and portrait of James Jimmy Barnes.

Sources

  1. ↑ Birth: Author: Ann M. Crymes Title: The Crymes Family Roots. Citing: Page: Crymes-Barnes Relationships (accessed 10 November 2020)
  2. ↑ Birth: Title: International Genealogical Index: Individual Record Publication: Name: familysearch.org. (accessed 10 November 2020)
  3. ↑ Inheritance: Title: Will of Susannah Maxey Publication: Name: Goochland Co., Virginia, Deeds & Wills. Citing: Page: Bk. 4, pp. 212-13 (accessed 10 November 2020)
  • American Genealogical Biographical Index (AGBI) for Revolutionary War Soldiers through the War of 1812.
  • Source Extracts from 'The Maxey's of Virginia, a Genealogical History of the Descendants of Edward & Susannah Maxey by Edyth Maxey Clark, p. 80, repository: Dallas County Library, Dallas, Tx., pp.1 and 78-79.




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Kepner-132 Margaret (Kepner) Kerns
Jimey Barnes was named in his father's will in 1760. See Prince Edward County, Virginia, Will Book 1 page 35. Please also note that the photo shown for James Barnes is not a possibility if he died in 1783 as photography was only experimental as early as the 1830s, and did not come into general use until about the 1850s. The photo shown is typical of a later photograph (I have some from the 1870s) that was enlarged and charcoal used to highlight the features. This must be a picture of a later namesake.
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Johnson-43462 Leigh Anne (Johnson) Dear
Thank you Margaret. I am aware of when photography became generally available in America. This old image has always been construed as being from a charcoal sketch, obviously by a good artist. It was never construed as being a photograph. I too have original old charcoal renderings, original tin types and very early photographs from other family lines with which to make comparisons. This image of an older facsimile copy has circulated for many decades among direct and sideways descendants, long before the internet, but the image is (i) too small as to provide certainty about its composition (charcoal versus a modified later photograph) and (ii) I have no providence authenticity in writing stating explicitly that it's an image of Jimmy Barnes himself. I will note these comments in the WikiTree profile's image 'page' because I agree there is a question about which family member he could be and what decade the image originated from.

Regarding the Will, you are correct. His parents were accidently detached by me in May 2022. I was working several issues at the same time and experiencing too many personal disruptions which appear to have resulted in this error. Looks like I need to reduce my multitasking...or make everyone go away when I am trying to work.  :-)

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