Life History

Notes

• This family was hard to put together.  One of the problems was the variety of first names of the husband/father of this Barnett family.  Some sources seemed to have the name Josiah, but most had Joriah or Josial, or some other odd forms like Josill, which turned out to be one ofthe common mis-transcriptions we find on Ancestry.com.
  
  Some listed him in genealogies or records as Jorial.  The 1860 Illinois census and his record of marriage to Sarah Morgan Gibson spell his name as Jorial.  The 1870 census spells it Jorile.
  
  Once I saw the 1870 census in actual handwriting, this name made sense to me.  His name is the same as the middle name of his grandson, the son of Clarinda Barnett and Jackson Green, my great-grandfather.  We have good records in our family on this name.  Great Grandpa Green's full name is Toliver Jorile.  The first name of Clarinda Barnett's father in the 1870 census looks exactly like this Jorile.  It is so unusual, it is no wonder so many had trouble figuring it out.
  
  The name is confirmed in the family naming patterns.  Toliver is the name of Jackson's father, Toliver Green.  So Toliver Jorile was named after both his grandfathers Toliver Green and Jorile Barnett!  This makes sense of the name of Clarinda Barnett's father.  It also explains the sometime spelling of the name as Jorial, which is another spellingfor the same phonetic name.
  
  In searching with this more detailed Barnett information, I also found that there was another line of Barnetts, many of whom came to Texasfrom Alabama.  Their ancestors were also from South Carolina, and have many similar names in their line.  These Barnetts likely stem froma common ancestor.  The genealogy of the Virginia-Carolina-Alabama Barnetts does not report all the lines from the Virginia and South Carolina individuals.
  
  A striking feature of these Carolina-Alabama Barnetts is the name Jorial which continues in various forms throughout the generations.  Thisalso gave insight into the origin of the name Jorial.  Forms of the name in this line appear as Jorial, Joroyall or Rial.  The variation Joroyall gives some clue into the linguistic origin of the unique name.
  
  A Joseph Barnett, born in 1731 in Goochland County, Virginia (just west of Richmond), had a son named Joseph Royall.  I found that Joseph Royall's nickname was Joroyall.  One of Joseph Royall Barnett's sons, Micajah Cicero, named one of his sons Joroyall.  Another genealogy reports that this Joroyall's name was also spelled as Jorial.  Joseph Royall's son John also had a son whose name he spelled Joroyl.  Another son, Richard, named one of his sons Jorial.  Richard's son Joseph named one of his son Rial.  Rial named one of his sons Rial T.
  
  When I saw these variations it gave me a clinching insight to the name forms, and the origin of the name Jorile/Jorial.  I have not yet determined the ultimate provenance of this Barnett line, but the pronunciation represented by these spellings indicates a vowel change betweenEnglish dialects that is documented today.
  
  It is well-known that in Northern Ireland, the OI/OY diphthong is pronounced as a standard English "long I" as in right or sight.  Thus thenormal word spelled ROYAL would be pronounced RILE!  This is exactly the phonetic change we see in this line of Barnetts to give us the name sequence Royall-Joroyall-Jorial/Jorile.  The strongest confirming evidence of that is that Joroyall's name is also spelled Jorial.  The short form Rial automatically follows as a variation of the new name Jorial/Jorile.  The  spelling Jorile is used for the name in our line ofBarnett-Greens.
  
  These Alabama Barnetts wound up in Kaufman and Cherokee Counties of Texas, or nearby Texas counties.  Jorile and Sarah's final residence was in Hill County, Texas, a little west of Kaufman County.  Their daughter Clarinda married Jackson Green in Hill County before moving to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).  Rial T Barnett in our Alabama line was born in Kaufman County 1871.  He moved from Kaufman County, Texas, to Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona, where he died in 1940.
  
  It seems likely that Jorile Barnett, who born in South Carolina, married in North or South Carolina, lived in Tennessee and later in Illinois, and finally moved with his third wife to Texas, is a cousin descended from one of the earlier generations in this same Barnett line, with the early name Royall handed down in various phonetic forms.
  
  I have found that the Barnetts were one of several prominent familiesin Goochland County, Virginia, and all these families have the name Royall, Joroyal, Joroyl or variations, deriving from a family name Royall.
  
  The Royalls were related to the Farrars, Barnetts, Bowmans and some other families in Goochland, all of which use the name Royall as a given name in their lineage from this Royall family.
  
  Jacob Green's wife Susan Barnett was not Clarinda's sister, as I had originally surmised from the fact that Clarinda had a sister named Susan.  But Susan's father was John B Barnett from Alabama, and seems to be kin to the line of Barnetts originally from Virginia with many branches in Alabama, which I discuss above.  I have not yet had time (June2008) to find the connection in the line, but there are many signs that this is a branch of the same Barnetts John B is from.  All we know so far about John B is that his father was named John.  See entry and Notes for Susan A Barnett.
  
  We find Jorile and his first wife with their family in Cherokee County, North Carolina in the 1840 census, initially transcribed for me by Nadene Snyder.
  
  1840 Federal Census, Cherokee County, North Carolina, page 236
  Joriael Barnett
  MALES:  1 under 5 (William?), 3 between 5-10 (James, John, Thomas), 130-40 (Jorile/Jorial)
  FEMALES: 1 under 5 (Evaline), 1 5-10 (??); 1 10-15 (Nancy), and 1 30-40 (1st wife)
  
  There is an additional female child here, aged between 5 and 10, whomwe do not see later.  This is probably a child who died before the 1850 census.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Monroe County, Tennessee, 12 November, 14th Civil District, page 229 (scan 115), Hse/Fam #1608
  Jariel [Jorial] Barnett 42 M Farmer $600 Real Estate $200 Personal  bSC
  Nancy Barnett 25 F b SC
  James Barnett 18 M b NC
  -- page 230 --
  John Barnett 15 M b NC
  Thomas Barnett 15 M b NC
  Evaline Barnett 12 F b NC
  William Barnett 10 M b NC
  Frances Barnett 8 M b NC
  Isabell Barnett 6 F b NC
  Zachary Tailor Barnett 9mos M b NC [b Jan-Feb 1850]
  
  When first analyzing the 1850 census, going by the ages of Jeriel (42) and Nancy (25), it appeared that Nancy was his oldest child, makinghim about 17-18 when she was born.  Later information indicated that this Nancy was actually Jorile's second wife Nancy Powell.  Nadene Snyder had found church records indicating that Jorial and his apparent wife named Nancy had joined a newly organized church on 8 June 1844.
  
  The records of Hanging Dog Baptist Church in Cherokee County, North Carolina, report that Jorial and Nancy Barnett joined that congregationon 8 June 1844.  The church had been organized only in May of that year.  Minutes through 1847 show Jorile (Jorial) chosen as a deacon (August 1844), then church clerk (April 1845), then ordained as an elder (April 1846).
  
  The day after Nadene sent me that information, (in June 2008) I foundinformation on a Genealogy discussion list giving several helpful details about Jorial (Jorile) Barnett.  Barbara Stevens informs us that Jorial married his second wife Nancy Powell in 1848.  This indicates that the Nancy who joined the church with Jorial in 1844 was his first wife.  Thus both his first and his second wife were named Nancy.
  
  Barbara Stevens  Posted: 20 Mar 2005
  
  The migration of Jorial Barnett:
  1808 = born SC
  1830 = married 1. probably Maco Co., NC
  1840 = census Cherokee Co, NC
  1848 = married 2. Nancy Powell, Cherokee Co., NC
  1850 = census Monroe Co., TN [adjacent to Cherokee Co]
  1857 = married Sarah Morgan Gibson - Jefferson Co., IL
  1860 = census Washington Co., IL
  Civil War = sons Frank, William serve and wounded in Civil War - William mortally wounded and died in Ashley, IL 1862
  1866 - Maude Bell Barnett born in Hill Co., TX - daughter of Francis and Nancy Jane Barnett.
  1870 = census Jorial & Sarah, Frank & Nancy, and John Gibson et al inHill County, TX
  1880 = census Hill Co., TX
  -- http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.texas.counties.stonewall/86.123.1.2.2/mb.ashx
  
  In seeing the name Nancy Powell, I realized that her name had also appeared in the membership records of the Hanging Dog Baptist Church.  Nancy had joined the same congregation on 9 November 1844.  I have not yet found the death and burial information of the first Nancy Barnett,but this combination of facts indicates that she died there in Cherokee County, North Carolina, in the community near Hanging Dog Baptist Church.  Her name does not occur in the partial transcription of cemetery burial records of that church.
  
  Nancy Powell Barnett, according to the 1850 census, was born in SouthCarolina.  Note that all Jorile's children with his first wife were born in North Carolina. It is helpful to note that Monroe County, Tennessee, borders Cherokee County, North Carolina, so they were just a fewmiles from where he had lived before, and still near the Hanging Dog Baptist Church.  However, I do not find any reference to Jorile or Nancy Powell Barnett after 1846.
  
  Note in the 1850 census the spelling of Frances is the female spelling.  In 1860, Frances is reported as Female, but in later censuses Francis is reported as Male, including the 1880 census showing F M Barrettas the husband of a family living next door to his father J R Barrettin Hill County, Texas.
  
  This 1850 census also tells us that Jorile's wife had already died and he had moved to Monroe County by census time in November 1850.  Thus she died between February and November that year.
  
  The spelling of Jorile's name as Jariel probably indicates that the name was pronounced as Juh-RILE.  This follows the accent of the name Joroyall, a combined form from Joseph Royall.  The descendants of his grandson Toliver Jorile Green pronounced the name as JOE-rile.
  
  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
  Frances Barnett 19 F North Carolina
  Isabella Barnett 17 F North Carolina
  Z Taylor Barnett 12 F North Carolina
  Clarinda Barnett 9 F Tennessee
  Susan J Barnett 8 F Tennessee
  Jane Gibson 13 F Illinois
  Arminda Gibson 9 F Illinois
  John Gibson 8 M Illinois
  
  In June 2008, I got more information explaining these Gibson children.  A Barnett researcher named Nadene Snyder contacted me with information on this Illinois family, indicating that the Gibson children are Sarah's children from a previous marriage to Charles S Gibson of Washington County, Illinois.  This, then, would also mean that Sarah is notthe mother of these Barnett children.  The ages of the Gibson children run concurrently with the Barnetts, and John Gibson is the same ageas Susan J Barnett.
  
  Nadene had identified additional census information that added or confirmed information on this family.  In the 1850 census, 42-year-old Jerial (Jorile) is already a widower.  In the 1840 census, which did notgive names other than the head of the household, there is a female ofthe same age range as Jorile.
  
  Nadene had also located the marriage information for Sarah Morgan andJorial Barnett in the Illinois Marriage Index.  Sarah Morgan had married Charles S Gibson on 26 January 1841 in Washington County, Illinois.  The index tells us that Sarah Gipson married Jorial Barnett on 15 January 1857 in Jefferson County, Illinois.  Thus Jorile's first wife,whose name we do not know, as well as Charles Gibson, died after the 1840 census and before January 1857.
  
  There is another problem.  Jorile is a widower in the 1850 census, when his youngest child is Zachary Taylor, born in January or February 1850 (9 months old in the November 1850 census).  This would mean that Jorile's first wife died between January-February 1850 and November 1850.  Possibly in childbirth with Zachary.  By November Jorile and his children have moved to Tennessee.
  
  But in the 1860 census, there are two children, Clarinda and Susan, who were born after the 1850 census, Clarinda in 1851 and Susan in about 1852.  But Jorile and Sarah married in January 1857.  This means that Jorile had a second wife after Zachary's mother died and before he married Sarah Morgan.
  
  Jorile and his family were living on the North Carolina side of the state border, in Cherokee County, when Zachary was born in November 1850.  Jorile had moved across the line to the neighboring Monroe County in Tennessee sometime before the 1850 census.  He married there and his next two children Clarinda and Susan were born there in 1851-1852.This would mean their mother died in Tennessee sometime after Susan'sbirth in 1852 and before Jorile's marriage to Sarah Morgan Gibson in January 1857.
  
  From there it is easy to envision them as part of the continuing stream of families moving west.  Jorile first took his motherless childrento Illinois, where he met and married Sarah, then at some time after 1860 they moved on with their blended family to Hill County, Texas.
  
  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
  Barnet, Clarinda 19 F W Tennessee
  Barnet, Susan J 17 F W Tennessee
  Barnet, John [John Gibson] 16 M W Illinois
  
  The fact that John is reported as John Barnett rather than John Gibson might indicate that Jorile had legally adopted him.
  
  We see that Jorile's son Francis (Frank) and his wife Nancy Jane (Gibson) also moved to Texas with Jorile and Sarah.  They are living a fewhouses from Jorile and Sarah, and are enumerated on the page before them.  The ages of their two daughters indicate that the Barnetts movedto Texas about 1867.  Fran and Nancy Jane's first daughter Sarah was born in Illinois in about 1846-7, and the second Maude was born in Texas about 1868.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas, 23 August, PO Hillsboro, page 38, Hse/Fam #259
  Barnet, Francis 25 M W Farmer  $100 Real Estate born Alabama
  Barnet, Nancy 23 F W born Illinois
  Barnet, Sarah 3 F W born Illinois
  Barnet, Maude 2 F W born Texas
  
  Nadene Snyder shared with me the entry she had found for Jorile and Sarah in Hill County in the 1880 census, along with other censuses.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas, 5 June, Justice Precinct, District 73, Page 13, Hse #107, Fam #106
  Barnett, J R  W M 71   Farmer  SC NC SC
  Barnett, Sarah  W F 50 Wife  Keeping House  MO TN TN
  Pugh, Ella  W F 16 Granddaughter  At Home IL IL IL
  
  Ella Pugh is the daughter of Mary S. Gibson, daughter of Sarah and Charles S Gibson.  An anonymous Ancestry.com genealogy gives informationon her marriage to Joshua B Pugh, born in St Clair County, on 22 May 1856.  They are recorded in the 1850 census for Washington County, Illinois, living a few houses down from Jorile and Sarah.  This entry of their daughter Ella in her grandmother's household probably indicates that her parents had both passed away at that time.

Sources

• 1. 1860 Federal Census, Washington County, Illinois
  • 22 June, Ashley, page 42, Hse # 298, Fam # 270
• 2. 1850 Federal Census, Monroe County, Tennessee
  • 12 November, 14th Civil District, page 229 (scan 115), Hse/Fam #1608
• 3. 1870 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas
  • 23 August, PO Hillsboro, page 39, Hse/Fam # 265
• 4. 1880 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas
  • 5 June, District 73, Page 13, Hse #107, Fam #106
• 5. Barbara Stevens, Ancestry.com Discussion Group, 20 Mar 2005
  • Name: http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.texas.counties.stonewall/86.123.1.2.2/mb.ashx;
• 6. 1840 Federal Census, Cherokee County, North Carolina
  • page 236
• 7. 1920 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 28 January, Marlow, District 257, page 13B, Hse #441, Fam #562
• 8. 1930 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 23 April, Richland Township, District 22, page 12A-B, Hse #226, Famil
• 9. Illinois Marriage Index
  • Book 2, Page 16
• 10. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
  • page 78, entry 226, http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1169&e
• 11. Nadene Snyder, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, June 2008
• 12. Genealogy Trails
  • Washington County, IL. Veterans, http://genealogytrails.com/ill/washin
• 13. Genealogy Trails
  • Washington County IL Veterans, http://genealogytrails.com/ill/washingt
• 14. 1880 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas
  • 5 June, District 73, Page 13, Hse #106, Fam #105
• 15. Ancestry World Tree
  • Barnett, http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=5784840&pid=-139
• 16. 1910 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas
  • 2 May, Justice Precinct 5, District 259, Page 8B, Hse #131, Fam #139
• 17. 1920 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas
  • 7 March, Commissioner's Precinct 4, District 229, Page 2A, Hse/Fam #26
• 18. 1840 Federal Census, Cherokee County, North Carolina
  • , page 236