Parents

Daughter of Jorile R BARNETT & Nancy POWELL.

Life History

Other facts

Notes

• 1860 Federal Census, Washington County, Illinois, 22 June, Ashley, page 42, Hse # 298, Fam # 270
  Jorial Barnett 52 M Farmer $600 Real  $200 Personal South Carolina
  Sarah Barnett 38 F Missouri [stepmother]
  Clarinda Barnett 9 F Tennessee
  Susan J Barnett 8 F Tennessee
  
  1870 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas, 23 August, PO Hillsboro, page 39, Hse/Fam # 265
  Barnet, Jorile 62 M W Farmer No Real Estate value  $150 Personal South Carolina
  Barnet, Sarah 49 F W Missouri [stepmother]
  Barnet, Clarinda 19 F W Tennessee
  
  The overall picture of the Barnett family found in Illinois in 1860 matches the characteristics of Clarinda Barnett who married Jackson Green in Indian Territory.  One discrepancy occurs, which is similar to common errors in censuses.  The birth state of Clarinda in the 1860 census with the Barnett family reports her birth state to be Tennessee.  In later censuses information for her sons Taylor (James Taylor) and Joe (Toliver Jorile) report the birth state of their mother Clarinda asIllinois.
  
  In 1910 Taylor's mother's birth state is reported as Unknown
  In 1920 it is Illinois
  
  In 1910 Joe's mother (should be the same as Taylor's) is reported as born in Alabama.
  In 1920 it is Illinois.
  
  From the 1860 Illinois census, we know the family had Illinois connections and one group of children of the name Gibson are with the Barnett family in that census.  So there is an Illinois connection.  This seems then a minor discrepancy, one that by now we expect to find in census entries.  We must keep in mind that in that era objective detailsand a focus on information were not a part of the culture as it became in the course of the 20th century.  We are detail oriented now.  Welike closure on every possible item of information.  That was just not the way they lived back then.
  
  Clarinda the daughter of Jorile (Jorial) was reported in the 1860 census as born in Tennessee.  But Jorile had moved to Illinois between 1852 and 1857, when he married Sarah Morgan Gibson, a widow living in Washington County, Illinois.  We find their blended family in the 1860 census, where all the Gibson children are reported born in Illinois, while the older Barnett children were born in North Carolina and Clarinda and her sister Susan were born in Tennessee.
  
  It is easy to see from this information why Clarinda's birth state might have been reported as Illinois in the later censuses.  Stranger discrepancies have certainly been sprinkled all through the US census records.  Her children remembered that she had come from Illinois, and that would be reinforced by the fact that her stepmother Sarah was bornin Illinois.  But sometimes they remembered a family past farther back, even though Joe got it wrong in 1910 by saying it was Alabama instead of Tennessee.

Sources

• 1. 1920 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 28 January, Marlow, District 257, page 13B, Hse #441, Fam #562
• 2. 1930 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 23 April, Richland Township, District 22, page 12A-B, Hse #226, Famil
• 3. 1860 Federal Census, Washington County, Illinois
  • 22 June, Ashley, page 42, Hse # 298, Fam # 270
• 4. 1870 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas
  • 23 August, PO Hillsboro, page 39, Hse/Fam # 265
• 5. Loretta Gregory Gay, personal communication
• 6. Loretta Gregory Gay Genealogical Research
• 7. Marlow (Oklahoma) Cemetery List
  • Name: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okstephe/MarlowCem2.txt;
• 8. Obituary of Maggie D Green, newspaper unknown
• 9. Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, Family History Dates
• 10. U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
• 11. 1920 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 2 February, Richland Township, District 262, page 10A (No house or fam
• 12. Linda Dudley Genealogy
  • http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/h/e/Linda-A-Dudley/tree1.
• 13. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 29 April, Wall Township, Marlow City, District 239, page 14B, Hse #265
• 14. Social Security Death Index
• 15. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 19 May, Wall Township, District 245, page 14B, Hse #264, Fam #267
• 16. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 13 June, Township 4, North Range 2E, District 134, page 22B, Hse #13,