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Subject: [ALHENRY] Re: COBIA, BARNES, CULPEPPER, GRAY, PELLUM, CHANCE, MILLER
Date: 13 Jun 2002 08:51:36 -0600
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Surnames: Barnes, Cobia, Gray, Dukes, May, Hall, McCloud
Classification: Query
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Message Board Post:
Sara,
Oh yes, I know the family's history after decades of digging, grinding, and listening to our elders. I learned this week that my friend and distant cousin Billy Barnes had lost his bid for Henry County Commissioner, but he ran a strong race and was almost in the run-off. "Wild Bill's" children were under my charge when I was the Headmaster of Abbeville Christian Academy, then the youngest principal in the State of Alabama in both public and private schools. He and Jeanette were great help and loyal supporters. I was a great friend of your Uncle Oris Barnes as well, especially when he ran a store in Haleburg for Billy in the 1970s. Cousin Oris was a body double for my Great Grandfather Joshua Thomas Dukes! They were second cousins. Also, Alma Gertrude Barnes, wife of Walker Carter was a precious friend and elderly neighbor. Her daughter, Helen Frances Carter, wife of George L. McKissack, Jr., was my next door neighbor in Haleburg. Then across Davis Street from "Miss" !
Helen's was Cousin Oberia Inez Hall, wife of Albert Henry Scott. Cousin Inez was a daughter of Uncle Robert Fowler Hall who married my great grandfather Tom Dukes' sister Oberia Barnes Dukes. Uncle Fowler's sister, Helen Victoria Hall was Martin Luther Barnes first wife and mother of "Miss" Alma, Cousin Reuben, Clarice "Bunch" Barnes who married my grandfather D. W. Zorn's double first cousin Whitfield "Whit" Zorn, and of course the always pleasant Buddy Roy Barnes. In 1976, on a crisp October day, I interviewed Cousin Reuben, down from Birmingham on a visit, Buddy Roy, Bunch, and Cousin Effie Gray, your mother's first cousin in the backyard of Cousin Luther Barnes home. (By the way. Henry County Historian T. Larry Smith was contacted by a movie production crew about settings in Henry County that they might use in a movie. Their top choices were Uncle Fowler Hall's Victorian home on the "Hall's Spur Road" and the house and farmyard of your grandfather ML Barnes! I do n!
ot know if they have been back in touch for this was in April. So who knows. The ML Barnes Place may make it to Hollywood!) Your grandfather ML Barnes was a nephew of my gggrandmother Clyde Rebecca Barnes married 1st to Joshua Thomas Dukes, Macon County, Georgia. She married your great-grandfather F.M. Cobia in 1884. So you and I are blood distant cousins in the Barnes family and step-cousins in the Cobia family! I told you I was kin to all the people in Henry County!
My great grandfather Tom Dukes grew up in the same house with ML Barnes as "brothers". The older Barnes children of J. F. Barnes, Sr. and gggrandmother Clyde Rebecca Barnes Dukes Cobia were reared together as were the oldest children of the next generation. In other words, my eldest great aunts and uncles grew up with the eldest children of ML and Helen Victoria Hall Barnes. "Papa Dukes" and his brother John Dukes moved to Camp Springs in 1901. My oldest great uncle (Sim Dukes) was then 9 years old and a playmate to Cousin Luther's older children like Reuben and Alma.
Sara, I trust the linage is correct, for I have researched it for 30 years, changing things and to the best of my knowlege this is OUR lineage in Alabama. We now have to get to Macon County, Georgia and find the parents of Joshua Franklin Barnes, Sr, Katie Barnes, Clyde Rebecca Barnes wife of 1st Joshua Thomas Dukes and 2nd Frances Marion Cobia, and Mary Barnes, (11 OCT 1836 - 14 JAN 1929), wife of Daniel McCloud (1793-1888). She was a widow when my Papa Tom Dukes, behaving badly, was sent to live with her in Notasulga, Macon County, Alabama. He met my great grandmother, Ada Idelia May and married her there December 22, 1892 and returned to Barnes Community/Zornville to raise his family. They lived in a log house in front of the old Bellview African American Church and Uncle Homer Zorn's old place on land now in the Mobley family. In 1900, Aunt Mary McCloud (your aunt as same as mine) was living with her brother Joshua Franklin Barnes, Sr. and his wife Penny Penuel in Ba!
rnes Community in Beat 5. So Penuel is another of your family lines.
Another researcher of the Culpepper Family has contacted me and I wrote him an epistle about the family. I will forward that to you later. Please know I am praying for you and your mother. I have one great-aunt, Ada Idelia Dukes, wife of Willie J. Holland that remains from the Tom Dukes family. She was the baby and reared my mother since my grandmother, O. Z. Dukes, wife of Delmus W. Zorn (double first cousin to Whit Zorn) died when Mama, Mary Martha Zorn, was born in 1933. She married John Elbert Elliott, III, and both lived in Haleburg. Mama died in 1987 at age 54 and Dad in 1994 at 64. Miss them terribly! Aunt Ada was my "grandmother" on Mama's side. She is in Extendicare Health Center in Dothan at age 93, suffering a massive stroke after breaking a hip in 1996. Dr. Bruce Hall, great grandson of Fowler Hall and Oberia Dukes, did the surgery. He also replaced my right hip in 2000. (I am disablied now since 1998.) Extendicare is operated by another cousin, Dr. !
Hall's sister, Glenda Hall, wife of David Dennis who have Extendicare and other assisted living homes in Dothan.
Always remember, Sara, that the Barnes and Cobia houses are not in Shorterville...they are in "BARNES COMMUNITY, ALABAMA!!!!!!!"
Will be in touch later,
Steve
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