Larken S. Barnes or Sanders Larken Barnes b.1806 Boone County, Kentucky
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Larken S. Barnes or Sanders Larken Barnes b.1806 Boone County, Kentucky
| Mark Wakefield (View posts) | Posted: 23 Mar 2004 5:44AM GMT |
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Surnames: Barns, Bohannon, Malone Boone Hudson
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Larken S. Barnes or Sanders Larken Barnes was born July 24, 1806 Boone County, Kentucky. He died in November 1885 in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. His mother and dad were James Barnes born in 1779 in Madison County, Kentucky. James Barnes mother and father are not known, James Barnes wife Sarah Callaway was born in 1793 in Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky. Sarah Callaway’s father was Flanders Callaway he was born December 09, 1752 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Sarah Callaway’s mother was Jemima Boone she was born October 04, 1762 in the Yadkin River Valley, Rowan County, North Carolina. Yes, Jemima Boone’s fathers name was Daniel Boone, and her mothers name was Rebecca Bryan. James Barnes most likely meets Jemima Boone in the 1790’s in Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky.
The Louisiana Purchase was made in the year of 1803 this land was still in the hands of the French Government. Daniel Boone was offered a very large land grant in today’s state of Missouri. He was to be allowed to settle on that side of the Mississippi river on this large land grant only if Daniel Boone would live on. Then improve this vast track of wilderness land. The French Government granted this land to Daniel Boone they wanted the settlement of their land. By those would develop this wilderness and build large farms and cities. Boone had proven to the world he could build in Kentucky. Daniel Boone would have to become a catholic become and a French citizen. So next the next early frontier to be settled by Daniel Boone would be the back woods of Missouri. The start of the 1800’s saw Daniel Boone’s Boonesboro emptying out and moving out of Kentucky and family’s moving west. The family tradition states that most of the women came westward perhaps by wagon and most certainly by land. The men tried to pack freight and move it down the Ohio River. There was no easy pathway to go for these travelers.
Larken Barnes was raised in a big family in Franklin, or Howard County, Missouri. Just were and when James Barnes was married and were the children are all born is not clearly understood. It would seam likely that they were married in Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky and some of the first children were born there. However the over riding theme is the family was moving west in the unsettled land of the Ohio River valley between the years of 1800 and about 1810. Most clearly the James and Sarah Callaway-Barnes family arrives on the land farmed in Missouri. Thus the last of the Barnes children were born in Missouri.
Larken Barnes farmed in Warren & Carroll County, Missouri. His first marriage was to Tilpha Lawson in married 10 Dec. 1834 in Warren County, Missouri. The young Barnes family had two children one boy and one girl. His first wife Tilpha Lawson died leaving him with out a wife. Larken Barnes, and many others moved to Texas in about 1847. In the 1850 federal census, Larken Barnes is found living in the Tarrant district of Ellis County, Texas. Larken Barnes is living with his teenage son James Coleman Barnes.
In Texas Larken Barnes acquired over 1,100 acres of land in the Peter Colony land grant; certificate # 238 to Larken Barnes 640 archers he is listed, as a widower with one child. This certificates date was May 10, 1850 survey date Feb. 3 1851. By virtue of certificate # 238 abstract # 113 Patent # 484 vol. 10. Peter’s colony a northern Texas empresario land grant made by the Republic of Texas to W.S. Peters & associates. Many early settlements in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Grayson, & Tarrant County’s were made by land grant of the Republic of Texas. It was great to see Larken Barnes name on the survey notes as a chainman on many of the survey teams. Perhaps he was a man with good math.
When the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was drawn up in 1848. The borderline was drawn with little consideration for railroads traversing Texas thru to Southern California. The United States and big business interests wanted a railroad thru the Southern California. Railroads passage thru mountains of the southwest was just an about impassable with the engineering equipment of the day. The Grand Canyon is just another geographic feature that imposes trouble for railroad passage. The political trouble with the American Indians of the South West was instable and unresolved. The political relationships of the early Spanish settlers with the Indian tribes of the southwest were successful with only some of the tribes. The Apache tribe north the boarder stayed at war and never joined in the settlement of a Spanish agrarian mission society. The Butterfield Stage route was drawn thru the southwest over many trails of the famous explorers of the southwest. Thus the Butterfield Stage route traveled over the geographic terrain using the wisdom found by the early explorers. This trail was traveled only people of the boldest of ambitions. After all riding a stage thru the South West was a teeth-rattling, kidney beating trip for the late 1840’s. By 1853 the United States had bought the Gadsden Purchase form Mexico with hopes for a railroad thru the South West to Southern California.
During the war like out break of hostility’s in Laurence Kansas in 1854 truly Kansas became a “Bleeding Kansas.†The unsettling chance that a war was to break out over slavery razed its ugly head. The thought of bringing a railroad to non-slavery the gold rich state of California. Just for the benefit of southern plunder. Could never settle well with the northern government of big money and banks. The constructions of a railroad in the southwest world have to be set aside till the question of slavery was settled.
Those who made the settlement of California for the longest time were a die-hard breed of men and women. These men and women had trekked long hard distains across hard barren terrain dragging cart and wagon moving heavy loads with offend with oxen moving forward no faster than a ox could walk with large load. Then there were the Boston’s the men of trade and barter from the sea. It was there task to sail the high seas right a round the horn of South America.
A popular pioneer song of the times;
They swam the wide rivers and crossed the tall peaks,
And camped on the prairie for weeks upon weeks.
Starvation and cholera and hard work and slaughter.
They reached California spite hell and high water.
Larken Barnes married Elizabeth Bohanan in about 1854. The three children of the next marriage were born in the next three years. In 1859 Larken and Elizabeth Bohanan-Barnes had three children under the age of four years old one girl and two boys, there were the older children from the first marriage however they were older. Larken Barnes sold his land and packed his belongings then made the move thru the southwest to come to California. He may have traveled with other associated family names such as the Bohanan’s. Most certainty he came to the San Gabriel Valley with the company of other southerners. Soon the San Gabriel Valley was know as little Texas because of all the southern families that had moved in from Texas.
Times were hard in California’s new land. When the next year’s group of new settlers arrived from Texas they came to El Monty, Los Angeles Countyy, California to see Larken Barnes and family. They and found them living in rags and looking so thin. The group of new settlers from Texas had hopped to see a California family of wealthy farmers. However at that time the Barnes family was so poor they couldn’t buy cotton for clothing.
By William Barns account in 1868 the family moved from El Monty up to Azusa in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, California. At that time there were only six family’s living in the San Gabriel Valley around Azusa at that time. Elizabeth Bohannan-Barnes died in 1878 she was buried at Fairmont cemetery in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. She was the mother of four of the last of the Barnes children. Born in this order Sarah Ellen Barnes, May 01, 1855 Texas, William Penland Barnes October 25, 1857, Texas. Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes May 05, 1861, California, last child was William Panther Barnes 1862, California.
Sarah Ellen Barnes married Oliver G. Malone June 21, 1874 his father was Perry Malone born 1814 in Kentucky. William Penland Barnes married Mary Blanch Hudson her father was Henry Hudson born 1834 in Mississippi. Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes married Morton T. Wakefield his fathers name was Samuel M. Wakefield born about 1816 in Pennsylvania. William Panther Barnes lived a short uneventful life and never lived to marry.
The 1880 federal census records shows Larken Barnes with his son William and young daughter Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes there living in Azusa. Soon my great grand father Morton T. Wakefield shall take his second trip to California he shall come thru the southwest. Then meet his beloved Cynthia and marry her in Los Angeles County Court records before the justice of the peace in December 22, 1881.
Larken Sanders Barnes or Sanders Larken Barnes died November 1885. Father of six children, exploder of many a long dusty trail, a great warrior for the expansion of the western United States. The buyer of land, good land at that, always the humble farmer, died after 75 years of age. He is buried in Fairmont cemetery in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. This pioneer graveyard is still there most of the oldest stones have been beaten down but there are many replacements. The city or the county doesn’t help keep this graveyard clean so we never know if it will be there at all when we get back to that knoll in the middle of the Old Foothill nursery on the eastern edge of Azusa.
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Larken S. Barnes or Sanders Larken Barnes was born July 24, 1806 Boone County, Kentucky. He died in November 1885 in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. His mother and dad were James Barnes born in 1779 in Madison County, Kentucky. James Barnes mother and father are not known, James Barnes wife Sarah Callaway was born in 1793 in Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky. Sarah Callaway’s father was Flanders Callaway he was born December 09, 1752 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Sarah Callaway’s mother was Jemima Boone she was born October 04, 1762 in the Yadkin River Valley, Rowan County, North Carolina. Yes, Jemima Boone’s fathers name was Daniel Boone, and her mothers name was Rebecca Bryan. James Barnes most likely meets Jemima Boone in the 1790’s in Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky.
The Louisiana Purchase was made in the year of 1803 this land was still in the hands of the French Government. Daniel Boone was offered a very large land grant in today’s state of Missouri. He was to be allowed to settle on that side of the Mississippi river on this large land grant only if Daniel Boone would live on. Then improve this vast track of wilderness land. The French Government granted this land to Daniel Boone they wanted the settlement of their land. By those would develop this wilderness and build large farms and cities. Boone had proven to the world he could build in Kentucky. Daniel Boone would have to become a catholic become and a French citizen. So next the next early frontier to be settled by Daniel Boone would be the back woods of Missouri. The start of the 1800’s saw Daniel Boone’s Boonesboro emptying out and moving out of Kentucky and family’s moving west. The family tradition states that most of the women came westward perhaps by wagon and most certainly by land. The men tried to pack freight and move it down the Ohio River. There was no easy pathway to go for these travelers.
Larken Barnes was raised in a big family in Franklin, or Howard County, Missouri. Just were and when James Barnes was married and were the children are all born is not clearly understood. It would seam likely that they were married in Boonesboro, Fayette County, Kentucky and some of the first children were born there. However the over riding theme is the family was moving west in the unsettled land of the Ohio River valley between the years of 1800 and about 1810. Most clearly the James and Sarah Callaway-Barnes family arrives on the land farmed in Missouri. Thus the last of the Barnes children were born in Missouri.
Larken Barnes farmed in Warren & Carroll County, Missouri. His first marriage was to Tilpha Lawson in married 10 Dec. 1834 in Warren County, Missouri. The young Barnes family had two children one boy and one girl. His first wife Tilpha Lawson died leaving him with out a wife. Larken Barnes, and many others moved to Texas in about 1847. In the 1850 federal census, Larken Barnes is found living in the Tarrant district of Ellis County, Texas. Larken Barnes is living with his teenage son James Coleman Barnes.
In Texas Larken Barnes acquired over 1,100 acres of land in the Peter Colony land grant; certificate # 238 to Larken Barnes 640 archers he is listed, as a widower with one child. This certificates date was May 10, 1850 survey date Feb. 3 1851. By virtue of certificate # 238 abstract # 113 Patent # 484 vol. 10. Peter’s colony a northern Texas empresario land grant made by the Republic of Texas to W.S. Peters & associates. Many early settlements in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Grayson, & Tarrant County’s were made by land grant of the Republic of Texas. It was great to see Larken Barnes name on the survey notes as a chainman on many of the survey teams. Perhaps he was a man with good math.
When the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was drawn up in 1848. The borderline was drawn with little consideration for railroads traversing Texas thru to Southern California. The United States and big business interests wanted a railroad thru the Southern California. Railroads passage thru mountains of the southwest was just an about impassable with the engineering equipment of the day. The Grand Canyon is just another geographic feature that imposes trouble for railroad passage. The political trouble with the American Indians of the South West was instable and unresolved. The political relationships of the early Spanish settlers with the Indian tribes of the southwest were successful with only some of the tribes. The Apache tribe north the boarder stayed at war and never joined in the settlement of a Spanish agrarian mission society. The Butterfield Stage route was drawn thru the southwest over many trails of the famous explorers of the southwest. Thus the Butterfield Stage route traveled over the geographic terrain using the wisdom found by the early explorers. This trail was traveled only people of the boldest of ambitions. After all riding a stage thru the South West was a teeth-rattling, kidney beating trip for the late 1840’s. By 1853 the United States had bought the Gadsden Purchase form Mexico with hopes for a railroad thru the South West to Southern California.
During the war like out break of hostility’s in Laurence Kansas in 1854 truly Kansas became a “Bleeding Kansas.†The unsettling chance that a war was to break out over slavery razed its ugly head. The thought of bringing a railroad to non-slavery the gold rich state of California. Just for the benefit of southern plunder. Could never settle well with the northern government of big money and banks. The constructions of a railroad in the southwest world have to be set aside till the question of slavery was settled.
Those who made the settlement of California for the longest time were a die-hard breed of men and women. These men and women had trekked long hard distains across hard barren terrain dragging cart and wagon moving heavy loads with offend with oxen moving forward no faster than a ox could walk with large load. Then there were the Boston’s the men of trade and barter from the sea. It was there task to sail the high seas right a round the horn of South America.
A popular pioneer song of the times;
They swam the wide rivers and crossed the tall peaks,
And camped on the prairie for weeks upon weeks.
Starvation and cholera and hard work and slaughter.
They reached California spite hell and high water.
Larken Barnes married Elizabeth Bohanan in about 1854. The three children of the next marriage were born in the next three years. In 1859 Larken and Elizabeth Bohanan-Barnes had three children under the age of four years old one girl and two boys, there were the older children from the first marriage however they were older. Larken Barnes sold his land and packed his belongings then made the move thru the southwest to come to California. He may have traveled with other associated family names such as the Bohanan’s. Most certainty he came to the San Gabriel Valley with the company of other southerners. Soon the San Gabriel Valley was know as little Texas because of all the southern families that had moved in from Texas.
Times were hard in California’s new land. When the next year’s group of new settlers arrived from Texas they came to El Monty, Los Angeles Countyy, California to see Larken Barnes and family. They and found them living in rags and looking so thin. The group of new settlers from Texas had hopped to see a California family of wealthy farmers. However at that time the Barnes family was so poor they couldn’t buy cotton for clothing.
By William Barns account in 1868 the family moved from El Monty up to Azusa in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, California. At that time there were only six family’s living in the San Gabriel Valley around Azusa at that time. Elizabeth Bohannan-Barnes died in 1878 she was buried at Fairmont cemetery in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. She was the mother of four of the last of the Barnes children. Born in this order Sarah Ellen Barnes, May 01, 1855 Texas, William Penland Barnes October 25, 1857, Texas. Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes May 05, 1861, California, last child was William Panther Barnes 1862, California.
Sarah Ellen Barnes married Oliver G. Malone June 21, 1874 his father was Perry Malone born 1814 in Kentucky. William Penland Barnes married Mary Blanch Hudson her father was Henry Hudson born 1834 in Mississippi. Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes married Morton T. Wakefield his fathers name was Samuel M. Wakefield born about 1816 in Pennsylvania. William Panther Barnes lived a short uneventful life and never lived to marry.
The 1880 federal census records shows Larken Barnes with his son William and young daughter Cynthia Elizabeth Barnes there living in Azusa. Soon my great grand father Morton T. Wakefield shall take his second trip to California he shall come thru the southwest. Then meet his beloved Cynthia and marry her in Los Angeles County Court records before the justice of the peace in December 22, 1881.
Larken Sanders Barnes or Sanders Larken Barnes died November 1885. Father of six children, exploder of many a long dusty trail, a great warrior for the expansion of the western United States. The buyer of land, good land at that, always the humble farmer, died after 75 years of age. He is buried in Fairmont cemetery in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California. This pioneer graveyard is still there most of the oldest stones have been beaten down but there are many replacements. The city or the county doesn’t help keep this graveyard clean so we never know if it will be there at all when we get back to that knoll in the middle of the Old Foothill nursery on the eastern edge of Azusa.
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