Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Timothy Barnes and Almira Cole




Husband Timothy Barnes 1

           Born: 8 Oct 1780 - Litchfield, Litchfield Co, CT 1
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           Died: 10 Oct 1873 - Barnes, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Father: Timothy Barnes (1749-1825) 1
         Mother: Eunice Munson (1754-1807) 1


       Marriage: 7 Nov 1809 1

   Other Spouse: Betsey Cole (      -1807) 1 - 12 Sep 1802 1



Wife Almira Cole 1

           Born: 17 Jan 1791 1
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           Died: 26 Aug 1820 - Yates Co, NY 1
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         Father: Gideon Cole (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Chloe Beckley (      -      ) 1




Children
1 F Eliza Barnes 1

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2 M Erastus Barnes 1 2




           Born: 5 Aug 1811 - Italy Hill, Yates Co, NY 1
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           Died: 27 Dec 1894 - Barnes, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Eliza Jane Eddy (1820-1900) 3
           Marr: 24 Feb 1846 1


3 M Timothy M. Barnes 1

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4 M Leverett Barnes 1

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5 M Asa Harmon Barnes 1 4

           Born: 2 Jan 1817 - Yates Co, NY 4
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           Died: 19 Jan 1875 - ? Warren Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Letetia M. Force (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1840 4


6 F Chloe Amanada Barnes 1

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General Notes: Husband - Timothy Barnes


He was born October 4, 1786, and died October 10, 1878. [HWC 1887, 513]

When grown to manhood, he settled in Cooperstown, New York, but subsequently removed to Italy Hill, Yates County, New York. He was a miller by trade, and built the first grist mills in Yates County, which he operated for many years. In 1828 he removed to Warren County, Pennsylvania.

He lived for many years at Italy Hill, Yates County, New York, where he was town clerk. In 1828 he bought land in Warren County, Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Sheffield township, the village of Barnes being named in his honor.

As early as 1828 he emigrated from Italy Hill, Yates County, New York, and built the first saw-mill on the south branch of the Tionesta Creek. This mill he operated about two years, and then sold to Nathan E. Lacy. On the 4th of July, 1832, he raised another saw-mill at Lower Sheffield. It was then closely surrounded by a forest of lofty pines, one of these trees, at the height of eight feet from the ground, measured twenty-three feet in circumference; another made seventeen saw-logs sixteen feet in length. When he first came to his wilderness home, he came from Warren, and was obliged to cut his own roads. The journey of fourteen miles was accomplished in four days.
Timothy Barnes was characterized by his charity and benevo-lence. "In the early settlements," Mr. Pratt has written, "food and provisions were often scarce, but Barnes permitted no one to want for either food or work-he was the 'mainstay' of the whole country. He spent the evening of his days with his son Erastus at the old homestead, surrounded by his children and in the enjoyment of all the comforts merited by a well-spent life."
It is related that the next winter after Timothy Barnes built his mill he went back for his family in the state of New York.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1124.

2 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 635.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1126.

4 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP viii.


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