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BARNES, STEPHEN, far., Sec. 6; P. O. Denmark; son of Norris Barnes, of English descent, who was born in 1788; married in Dutchess Co., N. Y., Charity Proper, who was born in the State of New York, in 1786; he died Feb. 22, 1840, and was buried in the Quaker cemetery at Clinton Corners, Dutchess Co., N. Y.; she died in February, 1873, and was buried at Bee Ridge, Knox Co., Mo.; they had ten children, five sons and five daughters; Stephen was the fifth; he was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., Sept. 10, 1813; June 4, 1837, in the city of New York, he married Miss Elizabeth D. Jay, who was born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 13, 1817; she died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 21, 1839, leaving one child, Mary E., born March 17, 1839, wife of Delanema Douglas, a farmer of Scotland Co., Mo.; June 6, 1840, he married Elizabeth Hoose, who was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., March 19, 1818; he worked at his trade (that of a carpenter) until 1846; in the spring of that year, he came to Lee Co., and settled where he now resides, his farm consisting of 150 acres of land, valued at $35 per acre; continued his trade for twelve years after coming here; has, since that time, devoted most of his time to the cultivation and improvement of his farm. His second wife died Jan. 4, of the present year, having been a member, for the past thirty years, of the Christian Church; she left a family of four sons — George M., born Oct. 10, 1841, enlisted in 4th Iowa Cav., in February, 1862, and died at West Plains, Mo., May 14 of the same year; Wm. C., born Jan 1, 1845; he also enlisted in the late war, and served until its close; is now a farmer of Pleasant Ridge Tp.; Gilbert R., born Feb. 1, 1847, married Emma J. Palmerton; is a farmer of this county; Oscar S., born Nov. 27, 1850; married Miss Louella, daughter of Capt. Tullis, who was born in Ohio, and became an early settler of Lee Co.; enlisted as Captain of Co. G, 4th Iowa Cav., and died at Helena, Ark., Feb. 8, 1863, leaving a wife and five children. Mrs. Barnes the eldest; she was born in Lee Co., July 17, 1852; they now reside on the home farm, and have three children — Dudley T., born Oct. 2, 1873; Sumner, born Oct. 26, 1875; Albert, born Jan. 10, 1876. Republican; member of the Christian Church.