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• Francis is listed as Francis M in the 1850 census with his father and step-mother in Monroe County, Tennessee.  The 1880 census lists him as F M.  Various researchers in that discussion also refer to him as Frank, which we would expect.  I found his full name in a comment by Barbara Stevens on a genealogy discussion list on Ancestry.com:
  "Francis Marion Barnett b. 1840 son of Jorial Burnett [sic]."  Though Barbara gives his birth date here as 1840, census age consistently indicates he was born in about 1841 or 1842.
  
  In 1850 he is with his father, stepmother Nancy Powell Barnett and his siblings, enumerated with the feminine spelling of his name, but listed as Male.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Monroe County, Tennessee, 14th Civil District, page 229 (scan 115), 12 November, Hse/Fam #1608
  Jariel [Jorial] Barnett 42 M Farmer $600 Real Estate. $200 Personal  b SC (no wife)
  Nancy Barnett 25 b SC
  -- page 230 --
  Frances Barnett 8 b NC
  
  In 1860 he is 19, and still in his father's household, with his second stepmother Sarah Morgan Gibson Barnett.  His name is again spelled Frances, and additionally he is reported as Female!
  
  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
  
  Frank and his brother William served in the Union army.  William was killed in action.  Barbara Stevens, a descendant researching the Barnett line, reports this along with some other helpful information about Frank:
  
  "[Jorial's] sons Frank, William served in Civil War.  William [was] mortally wounded and died in Ashley, IL 1862. ... Francis Marion Barnett ... was in the Union Army and settled in Double Mt., Stonewall [County in Texas] in the 1880s, moving from Hill Co., TX.  He was there in 1890 (Union soldier census) and 1900 too I believe."
  --  Barbara Stevens, Ancestry.com Discussion Group, 20 Mar 2005, http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.texas.counties.stonewall/86.123.1.2.2/mb.ashx
  
  A distant cousin and fellow Barnett researcher located a website with the Civil War registration information for Francis Marion Barnett.
  
  Francis M. "Frank" Barnett, a farmer from Nashville, Washington Co. IL stood 5' 10" tall with dark hair, hazel eyes and a dark complexion.  He was born in Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina.  Served during the Civil War with the Union Army, with Co. D, 48th Illinois Infantry Enlisted as a Recruit from Ashley on February 15, 1862.  Mustered in as a Private Re-enlisted as a Veteran from Nashville on March 1, 1864 in Centralia, IL.  Mustered in as a Private April 21, 1864 in Scottsboro, Alabama.  Promoted to Corporal Mustered out on August 15, 1865 in Little Rock, Arkansas
  --  Genealogy Trails, Washington County, IL. Veterans, http://genealogytrails.com/ill/washington/vets_b.html
  
  See the 1890 census Veteran's Schedule below for details of Francis Marion's Civil War service.  I found Frank in the 1920 census in Stonewall County, as Barbara Stevens said.  See the report later in these Notes.
  
  While in Illinois, Frank married his stepsister Nancy Jane Gibson, daughter of Sarah Morgan Gibson, the widow who married Jorile after he moved the family to Illinois.  By 1970, we find Frank and Nancy Jane in Hill County, Texas, a few houses from his father and stepmother.  They are enumerated on the page prior to Jorile and Sarah.  From the age of their oldest child, it appears that Frank and Nancy Jane married about 1866.
  
  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
  
  The ages of their children are again helpful in determining when the Barnetts moved from Illinois to Texas.  The oldest daughter Sarah was born about 1867 In Illinois, while the second daughter Maude Bell was born about 1868.  We don't have the exact birth dates of these girls, and their births could be in 1866 and 1867, rather than 1867 and 1868.  But the data we have means we will be pretty close if we say they moved to Texas in about 1867.  Their ages in 1880 are similar, which indicates they probably moved in late 1867 or early 1868.
  
  I am a bit puzzled by the birth state for Francis here.  He was born in North Carolina, Cherokee County to be exact.  We have good documentation of them in that county and the neighbouring county of Monroe County, Tennessee.  There was another family of Barnetts in Alabama, so it appeared superficially that this might have been one of that group.  There are several Francis Marion Barnetts in Texas at this itme, but I have not found representatives of the two lines in the same places.  The children, wife and ages matcfh the family of Jorile/Jorial Barnett's son Francis Marion Barnett.  So I cannot account for the repotritng of birth in Alabama.  This is the only place where this occurs, as far as I know.
  
  In 1880 Frank and Nancy Jane are living next door to his Jorile and Sarah.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas, 5 June, District 73, Page 13, Hse #106, Fam #105
  Barnett, F M  W M 39   M W Farmer  NC SC SC
  Barnett, N J  W F 33 Wife  Keeping House  IL IL MO
  Barnett, Sarah  W F 13 Dau  At Home IL NC IL
  Barnett, Maude B  W F 12 Dau  At Home TX NC IL
  Barnett, Fookie J [Frankie Jane]  W F 5 Dau  At Home TX NC IL
  Barnett, Mollie P  W F 3 Dau  At Home TX NC IL
  
  From the ages of the children, we can determine that Frank and Nancy moved from Washington County, Illinois, to Hill County, Texas shortly after Sarah's birth in about 1866 or 1867.  They were in Texas by the birth of Maude Belle in about 1868.
  
  I have not yet (June 2008) found them in the 1870 census.
  
  Barbara Stevens comments on his later years:
  "He was in the Union Army and settled in Double Mt., Stonewall [County in Texas] in the 1880s, moving from Hill Co., TX.  He was there in 1890 (Union soldier census) and 1900 too I believe."
  
  From this and the documents that Barbara Stevens cites, it appeared that Frank moved to Stonewall County, was enumerated there by the Union soldier census in 1890.  I later found the reference Barbara reports on.  This was the Veterans Schedule of the 1890 census.  Most of this census was destroyed in a fire.  This schedule records only the house number, name, rank and regiment, with enlistment and discharge information for the veteran himself.
  
  Census details located by Nadene Snyder indicate that another Frank M Barnett was enumerated in Wood County, Texas, in 1910.  I found that the 1910 census information was for another Francis Marion Barnett, born in Alabama of Georgia parents.  That Francis Marion Barnett's wife was Martha  This would be a member of the Barnett lineage discussed above: VA-SC-TN/AL-TX.  Some of them were in Georgia and Tennessee before moving on to Texas.  There are several Francis Marion Barnetts in various parts of Texas!
  
  1890 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas, 2 May, VETERANS SCHEDULE, Double Mountain (Billet 4), District 91, Scan page 1, Hse #145, Fam #149
  Francis M Barnett  Corporal P Company, Regiment 48, Illinois; Enlistment 1862, Discharge 1865; service 3 years 6 months; Eye Injury July 1864
  
  I have not seen a 1900 entry for Frank and Nancy Jane.  An anonymous genealogy on Ancestry World Tree reports the death dates for Frank and Nancy.  Incidentally, this sources spells Frank's father's name as Jarial, a spelling I have found in no other source.  This source does not give a source for the dates, but they seem reasonable:
  Francis (Frank) Marion Barnett, b 21 Feb 1841 Cherokee Co NC, d 16 March 1925 in Stonewall County, Texas
  Nancy Jane Gibson Barnett, b 02 Jan 1847 in Illinois, d 5 April 1891 in Stonewall County, Texas
  --  http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=5784840&pid=-1395160675
  --  http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?pid=-1395160667&tid=5784840&ssrc=
  
  In both the 1910 and 1920 censuses, I found Francis Marion as a widow living with his daughters in Stonewall County.  I the 1910 census he is listed  as a Farmer, but in 1920 he is an invalid, and no one in the household is reported as working the farm.
  
  1910 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas, 2 May, Justice Precinct 5, District 259, Page 8B, Hse #131, Fam #139
  Barnett,  F M Head M W 69 Widowed NC SC SC Farmer, Owns
  Barnett, Mollie Dau  F W 31 Single TX NC IL Farm Laborer
  Barnett, Myrtle Dau  F W 23 Single TX NC IL Farm Laborer
  Barnett, Nora Dau  F W 19 Single TX NC IL Farm Laborer
  
  By 1920 his daughter Nora (Elnora Ethyl) has married but is living in Francis' household with her husband Robert C Hudson.  None of the family members of Robert is reported as working on the farm.  I have not identified the other couple in the household, Ervin J and Alma C Beauford.  Ervin is reported as a General Laborer, not a laborer on the farm, and is reported not in any relationship to Francis as head of the household but another head of the family.  All three of these are reported in the same household, but all three men are reported as "Head," and given no additional family number.
  
  1920 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas, 7 March, Commissioner's Precinct 4, District 229, Page 2A, Hse/Fam #26
  Barnett, Francis M  Head  Owns M W 79 Widowed NC SC SC Invalid
  Barnett, Priscilla M  Dau  F W 43 Single TX NC IL No Occupation
  Hudson, Robert C  Head  Rents M W 24 Married TX NC IL [Occupation Unstated]
  Hudson, Nora  E  Wife F W 29 Married TX IL NC No Occupation
  Hudson, Veda M  Dau  F W 1 month TX TX TX
  Beauford, Ervin J  Head  [Status of home/farm not stated]  M W 24 Married TX TX TX  General Laborer
  Beauford, Alma C  Wife F W 18 Married MO IL KY No Occupation
  
  Notice that the birth places of Nora's parents is switched compared to previous reports and the report here for her sister Priscilla.
  
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  Francis Marion Barnett
  Birth Feb. 21, 1841 Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA
  Death Mar 16, 1925 Stonewall County, Texas, USA
  
  Francis Marrion Barnett was the son of Jorial Barnet [1808 SC - d. aft 1880 TX]. He was born in Cherokee Co, NC. The family moved on to Monroe Co, TN and then to Illinois. Francis M. served in the Union Army and was wounded in the eye around Rome, GA. He married Nancy Gibson, the daughter of his father's third wife. The families moved to Texas after the Civil War.
  
  Spouse Nancy Jane Gibson Barnett (1847 - 1891)
  Children:
  Maude Bell Barnett Stuart (1867 - 1943)
  Pricilla Barnett Hudson (1876 - 1942)
  Lola Ollie Sparks (1881 - 1955)
  Norah Barnett Hudson (1891 - 1970)
  
  Inscription:  F. M. Barnett
  Inscription:  Life's work well done; He rests in peace
  
  Burial Johnson Cemetery, Stonewall County, Texas, USA, Family Plot
  Cemetery Location:N33.06678 W100.34441 Elevation 1871 ft
  
  Created by Barbara Stevens Jul 05, 2006
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #14832404, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14832404
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Sources

• 1. Gravestone of Francis Marion Barnett, Johnson Chapel Cemetery, near Aspermont, Stonewall, Texas
• 2. Affidavit on F M Barnett, Stonewall Co TX, 23 July 1926
• 3. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 4. 1880 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas
  • 5 June, District 73, Page 13, Hse #106, Fam #105
• 5. Ancestry Trees
  • Barnett, http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=5784840&pid=-1395160675
• 6. 1910 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas
  • 2 May, Justice Precinct 5, District 259, Page 8B, Hse #131, Fam #139
• 7. 1920 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas
  • 7 March, Commissioner's Precinct 4, District 229, Page 2A, Hse/Fam #26
• 8. 1850 Federal Census, Monroe County, Tennessee
  • 12 November, 14th Civil District, page 229 (scan 115), Hse/Fam #1608
• 9. Genealogy Trails
  • Washington County IL Veterans, http://genealogytrails.com/ill/washington/vets_b.html
• 10. 1860 Federal Census, Washington County, Illinois
  • 22 June, Ashley, page 42, Hse # 298, Fam # 270
• 11. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
• 12. Ancestry Trees
  • Barnett, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/5784840/person/-1395160674?ssrc=&ftm=1
• 13. Ancestry Discussion Boards
• 14. 1890 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas
  • VETERANS SCHEDULE, Double Mountain (Billet 4), District 91, Scan page 1, Hse #145, Fam #149
• 15. California, Death Index, 1940-1997
• 16. 1910 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas
  • 7 May, Justice Precinct 5, District 259, page 11B, Hse #187, Fam #189
• 17. 1930 Federal Census, Runnels County, Texas
  • 5 April, Ballinger, District 1, page 6A, Sixth St, Hse # 136, Fam #148
• 18. Ancestry Trees
• 19. 1940 Federal Census, Stonewall County, Texas
  • 19 April, Precinct 4, District 217-7, page 4B, Hse #130, Owns, $500
• 20. Gravestone of Pricilla Barnett Hudson, Johnson Cemetery, Stonewall County, Texas
  • http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=4531&GRid=14832490
• 21. 1880 Federal Census, Hill County, Texas
  • 5 June, District 73, Page 13, Hse #107, Fam #106
• 22. 1930 Federal Census, Cochise County, Arizona
  • 29 April, Precinct 1 (outside Douglas), District 35, Page 3A, Hse #57, Fam #73