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Subject: [Barrington] Children of Marion Madison Barrington
Date: 15 May 2002 16:18:41 -0600
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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. Alexander’s 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 m!
arriage 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 Barring!
ton 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. Lizzie’s 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. Lizzie’s 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 c!
ould 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 grandfather’s 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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