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From: Donnie Shackleford <>
Subject: [Barrington] Children of Marion Madison Barrington:
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:10:40 -0700 (PDT)


1: Elizabeth Caroline Barrington: The only place I
have seen reference to Marion and Anne Barrington's
first daughter, Elizabeth Caroline, comes from the
Jordan-Barrington family bible which was owned by John
Richard Jordan and Sarah "Sallie" Sebelle Barrington,
a daughter of Marion and Anne. This list the birth of
daughter "Elizabeth Caroline, born June 04, 1853 in
Alabama, no death date is mentioned. However,
considering that as of the 1860 and 1870 census, no
Elizabeth Caroline is mentioned. This leads me to
believe that she probably died young, possibly as an
infant. At this time Marion Madison and his family
were living in Barbour County, Alabama and it would be
reasonable to assume if Elizabeth Caroline Barrington
did actualyy die prior to 1860 she would have been
buried there.

2: Albert Alexander Barrington: Was the second child
born to Marion Madison Barrington and Anne Margaret
Heidt. He was born in Eufaula in Barbour County,
Alabama on August 28, 1854. Albert married two times,
one of these marriages was in Crenshaw County on
October 08, 1877 to Nancy Ella Allen, who was the
mother of his fourteen children. Nancy was born in
Crenshaw county. Her death date is unknown but she was
still living in 1903 and is buried in Santa Rosa
County, Florida. Alexanders other marriage was to
Carrie Morgan. It is believed that Nancy was possibly
his first marriage but without marriage certification
or documents I have no way of knowing if this is
correct. At the time he married Nancy he would have
been twenty-three years of age and old enough for a
previous marriage. If he married Carrie Morgan second
then his marriage to her would have been late in life
when he was fifty or more years of age which would
indicate that Nancy probably died before this marriage
took place.

Alexander and Nancy were living in Crenshaw County at
the time of the birth of their son John William
Barrington Sr., on May 20, 1896 in the town of
Brantley. By the time of the birth of his son Albert
Orie Barrington on January 17, 1901 he was living in
Gnatt which is in the northern section of Covington on
the Crenshaw County line and was still there on
February 10, 1903 when his daughter Anna was born.
Albert obviously had moved into Covington County prior
to 1900 as his family is found there in the 1900
Federal Census. He died on December 30, 1915 in Santa
Rosa County, Florida. The time he moved to Santa Rosa
was probably soon after his daughter Anna was born.
Living in Santa Rosa at the time he moved was his
brother, Willis J. Barrington. Willis had purchased
land there (deed number 16724H) on June 01, 1903.

3: Sarah "Sallie" Sebelle Barrington: The third child
of Marion Madison Barrington and his wife Anne
Margaret Heidt, was born in Eufaula, Barbour County,
Alabama. She married John Richard Jordan, possibly in
Crenshaw County, Alabama on November 28, 1872. Some
have reported their marriage in Geneva County,
Alabama. However, due to the 1880 Federal Census for
Crenshaw County, Alabama "55 district", and near the
Blackrock Community, John Richard Jordan, his wife
Sarah and their first two children, Margaret and John
Thomas were living next to Sarah's family, Marion
Madison and Anne Margaret Barrington. So from the
census it shows John and Sarah living in Crenshaw
County but sometime after their marriage and probably
before the birth of their son Samuel in 1882 they had
moved to Hartford in Geneva County. It is here in
Geneva County that they settled and rasied their
family. It was probably due to their living in Geneva
County that Sarah's parents came there. Both Marion
Barrington and his wife Anne died there and both were
buried at the Mt. Pleasant Church Cemetery in Dothan
which is in Houston County, Alabama and a border
county to Geneva.

4: William Augustus Barrington: Was the fourth child
of Marion Madison Barrington and Anne Margaret Heidt,
born in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama on September
17, 1858. He married in Crenshaw County, Alabama on
February 27, 1881 to Lizzie Emma Head. Lizzies family
was also from Barbour County but had moved to Butler
County prior to her birth on January 05, 1863. Even
though she is listed as having been born in Butler
County, this is the same area that became Crenshaw
County on November 30, 1866.

Lizzie was a daughter of James Newton Head and Dicy
Camilla Hamrick, who also had a son, Thomas Benjamin
Head. Lizzies brother Thomas married Georgia Cornelia
Rodgers and they had a son, Benjamin Jr. He married
Mary Alene Stephenson who was a daughter of Samuel
Marion Stephenson and Joanne Palestine Tindal. Joanne
was a daughter of John Andrew Tindal and Mary Frances
Barrington, who was a daughter of William Winfield
Barrington, the uncle of William Augustus. This is
just one more of the many family connections which
seem to be so common place.

Sometime after his marriage, William and Emma are
mentioned as having moved to Marlow, Stephens County,
Oklahoma and later returning to Crenshaw County,
Alabama. William was Christened a member of the
Primative Baptist Church near Honoraville, Crenshaw
County, Alabama after his return. According to the
Federal Census records of 1900 all of the children of
William Barrington are listed as having been born in
Crenshaw County, Alabama. Some sources point to
Luverne as being the place of their birth, Luverne is
located about 12 miles to the south of Honoraville and
considering the time in the late 1800s their births
were most likely in Honoravillle.

Of interest is that William is not listed wife Emma
and his children in the 1900 census, but according to
the 1910 and 1920 census reports he is shown as head
of household. This leads me to believe that his first
trip to Okalhoma was without Emma and their children.
Several of their children were married by the year
1920 and were still living in Honoraville during the
1920 Federal Census. Later, William, his wife and
their children along with their families moved to
Oklahoma where they settled in the town of Marlow in
Stephens County. William died there on April 24, 1939.
His wife Lizzie died in Dallas, Texas on March 15,
1939. At the time of her death three of her children,
Alma, Tula and Hurd were living in Dallas. She was
returned to Marlow and buried at the Marlow Cemetery,
where William was buried a month and one week later.

5: Marion Hugh Barrington: He was born on June 28,
1860, in Barbour County, Alabama, the fifth child of
Marion and Ann Barrington. Before the birth of his
younger brother, John Madison Barrington, who was born
on June 28, 1862, the Barrington family may have moved
to the Blackrock Community, located in central
Crenshaw County, Alabama. However this is contrary to
the 1870 census which list the family of Marion still
living in Barbour County, in east central Alabama.
Even though some records list John Madison Barrington
being born in the Blackrock Community of Crenshaw
County it is most likely it was after the birth of all
of the Barrington children that they moved to Crenshaw
County. This area was loctaed near the Butler County
line and it was here that Marion Hugh Barrington met
his wife, Mary Emma Lee. Mary Emma was born on
October 22, 1871 to Elizabeth and Andrew Lee, one year
before Andrew died on October 22, 1872.

In the 1880 Butler County, Alabama Federal Census,
Elizabeth Lee and Mary Emma Lee were living near
Jasper Horrie Davis and his family a mile or two north
of McKenzie, Alabama. Mary Emma Lee married Marion
Hugh Barrington on December 10, 1891, in the Butler
County town of Georgiana, Alabama at the home of her
mother. They were married by George Washington Lee, a
Primitive Baptist preacher, who had lost an arm in the
Civil War.

Marion Hugh Barrington worked in the logging industry
and he and Emma lived in locations to accommodate his
work. Their granddaughter, Louisa Traxler, reported
that the family Bible of Ruby Barrington Williamson
indicates that Emma Barrington united with the
Primitive Baptist Church in Geneva County, Alabama in
1908 and transferred her membership to the Lone Star
Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church of Largo, Florida in
1913. Of interest is the fact that in the 1900 Geneva
County, Alabama Federal Census, 6th precinct, page
89A, the father of Marion Hugh Barrington (Marion
Madison Barrington) was living in the home of his
daughter Sarah "Sallie" Sebelle Barrington-Jordan in
Geneva County.

In the list of early members of the church in Largo,
Florida are E. J. Lee (Elizabeth) and Emma Barrington
who are listed together as if they united with that
church at the same time. Elizabeth Davis Lee might
have been living with her daughter, Emma Barrington,
before they moved to Florida and she moved along with
them. The Barrington family appears in the 1920
Pinellas County, Florida Federal Census living at
Safety Harbor, near Clearwater.

The 1920 Pinellas County, Florida Federal Census,
Precinct 19, page 261B:

Marion H. Barrington, 59, born in Alabama, father and
mother born in U.S., Laborer, general saw work:
Mary E., 48, born in Alabama, father born in Georgia,
mother born in South Carolina
Hillary S, 23, (son) born in Alabama, both parents
born in Alabama, Laborer, saw mill work
Brown, Ruby M., (daughter), 18, born in Alabama, both
parents born in Alabama
Louisa M. (granddaughter), 10 months, born in
Florida, father born in U.S., mother born in Alabama
Allie R. Bates, (daughter), 16, born in Alabama, both
parents born in Alabama
Emma L (granddaughter), 9 months, born in Florida,
father born in Florida, mother born in Alabama

Marion Hugh Barrington died November 30, 1925 in
Largo, Florida and was buried at the Largo Cemetery
but his body was later moved to Lone Pilgrim
Cemetery, Largo, Florida. Hugh's wife, Mary Emma Lee
died June 29, 1961 in Largo, Florida and was buried at
Lone Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery at Largo,
Florida.

6: John Madison Barrington: He was the sixth child of
Marion Madison Barrington and Anne Margaret Heidt,
born in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama on June 28,
1862.. Prior to his birth in May of 1862 his father
had enlisted into the Confederate Army and was not
present at the time of his birth. It would be in May
of 1865 and just before his third birthday that his
father would return from the war. In 1872 when John
was about ten years of age his family moved from their
farm in Barbour County to the Blackrock community of
Crenshaw County.

John married just short of his 26th birthday on June
16, 1888 in the Ivey Creek community, which is near
Blackrock. Here he married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Eleanor
Moore, a daughter of daughter of William Moore and
Martha Holland. Lizzie was born in the Ivy Creek
Community on May 14, 1869. John and Lizzie were living
in Ivey Creek at least through the year of 1899 when
the last of their seven children were born. By the
time the 1900 Federal Census was taken he and family
were living in Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama,
which is only a few miles from Ivey Creek. John died
on August 26, 1901 at the age of thirty-nine, Lizzie
lived to an older age of eighty-two, dying on March
04, 1952, also in Rutledge. Their daughter Ivey "Uva"
Lee Barrington is buried at the Blackrock Cemetery yet
John and Lizzie are not listed there. They are both
buried somewhere in the area where they lived in
Crenshaw County, possibly near Ivey Creek.

7: Anna "Annie Iola" Lee Ola Barrington: She was the
seventh child of Marion Madison Barrington and Anne
Margaret Heidt. She was born in Eufaula, Barbour
County, Alabama on July 24, 1866. Annie moved with her
parents to Crenshaw County when she was about six
years of age where they settled in the Blackrock
Community in the northwest section of the county. Here
the father of Annie became aquainted with Charles
Sumpter Dean Sr. Both the Dean and Barrington families
became members of the Blackrock Primative Baptist
Church. Annie married Samuel MacDonald Mack Dean, a
son of Charles Sumpter Dean and Edna Walker, on
September 05, 1882. There marriage was performed in
the Ivey Creek Community, the home of her brother John
Madison Barrington. Annie and Samuel had four
children, all born in Blackrock, the last born in
1888.

Samuel Mack Dean made a living off the land, farming
and logging. Following the logging camps throughout
Alabama they moved from northern Crenshaw County to
the southern section of the county to an area rich
with hardwoods and prime for logging. This area was
along the Connecuh River just south of the newly
formed township of Brantley. Annie and Mack settled on
the south side of the river and other Deans and
Barringtons settled north of the river. Today this
area is still accessible, depending on the weather. On
a rainy day one would probably need at least a 4-whell
drive vehicle, and in order to pass from the south
side to the north side of the river would require many
miles of driving. However, in those days one could
cross the river by ferry and shortly be at a place
known as Bradley's Mill which provided jobs for many
in the area during the first half of the 20th Century.
It provided housing and even had a Commissary where
employees and their families could do their shopping.
Today, it remains only as old ruins and memories for a
select few.

The old home of Annie and her husband Mack Dean still
remains but is nothing more than a shell and an almost
ghosly reminder of the past. Only a few hindred yards
away is the Old Morgan Cemetery. Annie died at this
home on in 1894 from tuberculosis and was buried at
the cemetery.


After her death Mack Dean remarried to Emma Marlow in
1899 and soon after moved back to the north side of
the river near the town of Dozier. With his marriage
to Emma there were six other children born. They were
Ozell Dean who married Loustacy Harville, Alma,
Fannie, Rosy Belle, Velma and Nina Pearl. The Loustacy
Harville that married Ozell Dean was a daughter of
John Thomas Harville who was a son Hillary "Red"
Harville and Savannah Hicks. They were also the
parents of Amanda Harville who married Marion Robert
Dean, a son of Annie Barrington and Mack Dean.

At the time of the death of Samuel Mack Dean in 1929
he was living in a house where the Clark Grocery Store
is now standing, between Brantley and Dozier, Crenshaw
County, Alabama. However his actula place of death was
acroos the county line in Covington. Samuel had
requested that upon his death that he was to be buried
next to Annie at the Morgan Cemetery but because of
severe floods in the area which made this impossible
he was buried at the Live Oak Hickory Grove Cemetery
between Opp and Andalusia in Covington County,
Alabama, next to his second wife Emma who had died a
year earlier.

Samuel MacDonald Mack Dean and Anna Iola
Barrington were my great grandparents and even with
the fact my mother was born after her grandmother died
she always talked about her grandfathers love for his
first wife, always known to her and her siblings as
Granny Iola.

8: Willis Jordan Barrington: He was the last child
born to Marion Madison Barrington and Ann Margaret
Heidt. He was born in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama
on December 24, 1868. By the time of his fourth
birthday his parents relocated to the Blackrock
Community of Creshaw County in south central Alabama.
Willis married about 1890, possibly in Georgiana which
is located in Butler County, Alabama. It has been
speculated by some that he was married in Crenshaw
County, however, his wife Mittie Fadonia Bradley was
from Georgiana so this is the most likely place of
their marriage. Willis and Mittie possibly had seven
children. Trying to locate the exact birthplace of
their children has been an illusive project and
leaves me at best only with only a guess as to where
they were born. The best possible way of trying to
locate their place of birth has to take into
consideration of where Willis and his family were
residing at the time.

I know of his place of birth which was the Blackrock
Community in Creshaw County, and again his speculated
place of marriage, which was in Butler County. I have
not been able to find Willis in the 1900 Census for
Crenshaw County which indictes his moving from there
prior to 1900. Possibly his first three children were
born in Crenshaw but by the birth of his fourth child
Emma in 1903 they were no longer in Crenshaw County.

The next record that provides proof of the location of
Willis Barrington is in the following land deed when
he purchased land in Santa Rosa County, Florida on
June 01, 1903. This is documented was located in the
Florida Land Office in Gainesville, document number
16724, Statutory Reference: 12 Stat. 392 . Entry
Classification: Homestead Entry for a total of 80.22
acres. At the same time this land deed was filed, the
older brother of Willis (Albert Alexander Barrington)
moved from Covington County, Alabama to the same area
in Santa Rosa County, Florida. Maybe the few years
between the birth of the third child of Willis in 1897
and 1903 he was living in Butler or Covington County
or possibly even gone to Geneva County where his
father died in 1909.

The next record of Willis is found in the 1920 Federal
Census and he and his family are found in Miller
County, Georgia. This census mentions three children,
General, Grace and Voniceal. The Grace mentioned in
the census is Emma Gratis Barrington. She married in
Miller County, Georgia in 1920 to William Magruder
Henry Sr. This leads me to believe that the child Emma
Gratis and the child Grace mention as a child of
Willis and Mittie are possible the same person .

Later Willis and Mittie moved to Hillsbourough County,
Florida where they died. They were at one time living
in Tampa. Willis died on May 08, 1957 and Mittie died
September 28, 1951. They were buried at Bloomingdale
in Hillsbourough County.


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