William Elijah Barnes (b. May 21, 1815, d. March 26, 1885)
William Elijah Barnes was born May 21, 1815 in Kentucky, and died March 26, 1885 in Newton County, Ark.. He married (1) Barbary Cerat on January 23, 1837 in Wayne County, Kentucky, daughter of Sallie Cerat. He married (2) Matilda J. Fearer on March 11, 1866 in Cedar County, Missouri.
Notes for William Elijah Barnes: Buried at Cherry Grove Cemetery; Erbie, Arkansas (Newton County)
Census: 1850 Wayne County, Kentucky Census: 1860 Newton County, Arkansas Census: 1870 Newton County, Arkansas
In 1870 he is emumerated twice, once with one of his daughters, and once with a Charles Medler family.
Fireside Stories by Stories by Silas C. Turnbo, 1904 SHOT A SORREL MARE FOR A DEER "A few years before the Civil War commenced a man of the name of Elijah Barnes lived on White Rive near the Mat Hoodenpile Grave Yard in Keesee township in Marion County, Arkansas Barnes lived here until the latter part of 1862 when he moved to Newton County, Ark. and lived on the Buffalo River near Jasper the county seat of Newton refering to the time when Mr. Barnes lived on White River he hunted and killed deer. But owing to defective vision he was not always a successful hunter. He was an old man and was not able to travel through the forest like a young hunter but he was always trying to hunt and as we remarked above he killed deer but not very many of them. One day Mr. Barnes crossed the river and hunted in a a hollow that empties into a sloo where the old settlement road lead across the island and lead up the bank at the upper end of the old Allen Trible farm in Franklin township. As the old man made his way slowly along through the grass in this hollow he noticed an animal the color of a deer that was standing some distance in a clump of bushes that he pronounced to be a big buck. It was a long way to shoot at it and only part of its body was visible through the brush and without taking time to ascertain whether it was a deer or not he leveled his rifle at it and fired and the supposed buck run off through the thicket out of sight. He did not follow it but returned back across the river and reported that he "shot a big buck across the river and it run off like a horse." Allen Trimble owned a sorrel mare he called Mary Blane and this hollow was her grazing ground. And Barnes had shot her instead of a buck. Fortunately Mr. Trimble happened to find her in time took her home and extracted the bullet which had lodged in the flesh and by careful treatment the wound healed over."
More About William Elijah Barnes and Barbary Cerat: Marriage: January 23, 1837, Wayne County, Kentucky.
More About William Elijah Barnes and Matilda J. Fearer: Marriage: March 11, 1866, Cedar County, Missouri.
Children of William Elijah Barnes and Barbary Cerat are:
+Mary Elizabeth Barnes, b. July 12, 1851, Kentucky, d. June 28, 1930, Erbie, Arkansas.
+Sarah A. "Sally" Barnes, b. September 10, 1838, Boonesboro, Kentucky, d. December 10, 1895, Chico, California.
Thomas Calhoun Barnes, b. April 24, 1840, Drewesville, Kentucky, d. January 05, 1921, Roseville, California.
John Barnes, b. Abt. 1841, Kentucky, d., Arkansas.
William Elijah Barnes (b. May 21, 1815, d. March 26, 1885)
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