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Subject: [Barrington] John Madison Barrington
Date: 6 Sep 2002 16:48:02 -0600


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John Madison Barrington was born June 28, 1862 in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, and died August 26, 1901 in Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama. He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Eleanor Moore June 16, 1888 in Ivey Creek, Crenshaw County, Alabama, daughter of William Moore and Martha Holland. She was born May 14, 1869 in Ivey Creek, Crenshaw County, Alabama, and died March 04, 1952 in Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama.

John Madison Barrington

John Madison Barrington 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 Black Rock community of Crenshaw County.

John married just short of his 26th birthday on June 16, 1888 in the Ivey Creek community, which is near Black Rock. 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. Their daughter Ivey "Uva" Lee Barrington is buried at the Black Rock 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.

The Census Years 1880-1930

Tracing the family of John Madison Barrington begins with the 1880 Federal Census of Crenshaw County, Alabama. In this census John is listed as 15 years of age and is living with his parents, Marion Madison and Anne Margaret Barrington near the township of Rutledge. As with many of the census records, errors were a common problem. The 1880 census also bears its share of error. In this census it list the birthplace of John as Georgia, the same with his siblings. John’s parents had lived in Georgia but this was prior to the birth of their children, at the time of their births they were living in Barbour County, Alabama. In 1880 the family of Elizabeth Eleanor Moore were living in the area of Crenshaw County known as Cook’s Stand near Ivey Creek. They are listed as living in the Rutledge-Roberson area of Crenshaw County, Alabama in the 1900 Federal Census. Her father, William M. Moore is listed as 55 years of age, born April 1845 in Georgia and his wife Martha H!
olland is listed as 54 years of age born in February 1846, born in Alabama. At the time of the census there were still four children living at home. This census was taken several years after Elizabeth’s marriage to John Madison Barrington.

By the time of the 1900 Federal Census, John Madison Barrington and his family are also listed living in the Rutledge-Roberson area of Crenshaw County. This census list John M., as age 37 and his wife Elizabeth as age 31. There are six children listed, Arthur age 10, Annie age 8, Ferman age 6, Bessie age 4, Caty age 3 and son Reedy less than 1 year of age. There was one other child Ivey who died in 1891. John Madison Barrington died the year after this census was taken and by 1910 Elizabeth had moved with her children to the southern part of Crenshaw County were they settled in the township of Dozier. In the 1910 census Elizabeth is listed as age 40 and widowed. With her are all of her children. Arthur is listed as J. Arthur age 20, Annie is listed as Annie V., age 17, Ferman is listed as David F., age 15, Bessie as Bessie M., age 14, Caty as Katy B., age 12 and Reedy as George R, age 10. Not listed in the 1900 census but listed in the 1910 census was the last child of John !
Madison Barrington Sr., John Madison Jr. John is listed as John M., age 8 years of age. John Madison Jr., was born about seven months after his father died. John Madison Jr., was born in Dozier so it can be assumed that Elizabeth moved to Dozier soon after the death of her husband.

In the 1920 Federal Census, Elizabeth and several of her children are still living in Dozier, Crenshaw County, Alabama. In this census she is listed as 50 years of age. The children still at home are her sons Ferman, age 25, Reedie (spelled Rhedie) age 20 and John M., age 18. By this time four of her children had married and were no listed with their mother. James Arthur had married Fannie Lou Weatherford, Annie Valera later married Bedder Nall and Bessie married later married James Marion Taylor. Caty married Thomas Jefferson Bryan in 1920. Nearly thirty years after the death of John Madison Barrington Sr., is wife Elizabeth and never remarried and was still listed as widowed and living in the town of Dozier where she is listed in the 1930 census. In this census she is listed as 60 years of age and living with her is her son George Reedie Barrington and his wife Floy Pitts. Reedie is listed as 30 years of age and Floy is 25 years of age.

The children of John Madison Barrington and Elizabeth Eleanor Moore:

1: James Arthur Barrington was born in the Ivey Creek Community of Crenshaw County, Alabama on July 16, 1889. James married in the Dozier Community of Southern Crenshaw County on September 11, 1915 to Fannie Lou Weatherford.

Fannie Lou Weatherford was a daughter of John William Weatherford who married Martha Melvinia Jackson , born in Crenshaw County, Alabama on May 24, 1891. Two of John Weatherford's sisters also had connections to the Barrington family, they were Adaline Augusta and Elizabeth Prudence. Adaline was a wife of Thomas Benjamin Sport and they had children Eva Oleta and Marvin Thomas. Eva and Thomas married into the Dean family of Dozier who were descendants of Annie Iola Barrington, a daughter of Marion Madison Barrington. Elizabeth Prudence Weatherford married John P. Coe. John was a son of William A. Coe who married Permelia Hastings and he was a son of Isaac Coe and Rebecca Champion. William's brother Isaac W. Coe married Elizabeth "Eliza" Olive Barrington who was a sister of Marion Madison Barrington.

At the time of the 1920 Federal Census, James Arthur and his wife were still living in the southern area of Crenshaw County but soon after they moved to Grady, located in the northern section of the county. Here they remained until after the birth of their daughter Peggy in 1923. By the time of the birth of their last child Thomas in 1926, they were living in Wewahitchka, a small community of North Central Florida. Here they remained until their deaths. According to tombstone inscriptions, James died on November 23, 1962. Fannie died in October 1973. They are buried in Wewahitchka.

2: Ivey "Uva" Lee Barrington was born October 15, 1890 in Ivey Creek in northern Crenshaw County, Alabama and died when she was one year of age on November 07, 1891 in the Black Rock Community north of Rutledge in Crenshaw County, Alabama. She is buried at the Black Rock Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.

3: Annie Valera Barrington was born April 26, 1892 in Ivey Creek, Crenshaw County, Alabama and died January 19, 1966 in Clewiston, Hendry County, Florida. She married Beder Elliot Nall after 1920 in Crenshaw County, Alabama. Bedder was born about 1882 in Crenshaw County, Alabama and died in 1955 in Clewiston, Hendry County, Florida. After her marriage to Beder Nall, they moved to Clewiston, Florida where they both died and are buried. They did not have any children. Bedder was married prior to his marriage to Annie and there were children with his first marriage. Census and other records do show another marriage and several children. In the 1910 Federal Census for Crenshaw County, Alabama in the township of Dozier, Bedder is listed with this family that includes his first wife. Beder's first wife was Beaulah Campbell whom he married in Dozier, Crenshaw County, Alabama in 1898, she is listed in this census as Bulah M., age 27 born in Alabama. Beaulah died in Winter Haven, Fl!
orida in 1964. In the 1910 census there are 5 children listed. Another child was born after the 1910 census a son by the name of Bedder Euclid Nall, his birth date was April 25, 1911.

4: David Ferman Barrington was born December 24, 1893 in Ivey Creek, Crenshaw County, Alabama and died February 25, 1968 in Bradenton, Florida. He married Bessie Mary Culbreth August 16, 1922 in Crenshaw County, Alabama. Sometime after their marriage they moved to Bradenton, Florida where they both died and are buried. They did not have any children.

5: Bessie Margaret Barrington was born December 09, 1895 in Ivey Creek, Crenshaw County, Alabama and died February 14, 1941 in Brandenton, Manatee County, Florida. She married James Marion Taylor June 1923 in Crenshaw County, Alabama. James was born September 09, 1874 in Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama and died December 18, 1946 in Brandenton, Manatee County, Florida. After their marriage they moved to Bradenton, Florida and in 1941 Bessie committed suicide, her body was returned to Alabama and she was buried at the Magnolia Cemetery, Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama. James died in 1946 in Bradenton and his body was also returned to Andalusia, Alabama where he was also buried. Bessie and James did not have any children between them, however, there were three children born to a previous marriage of James Marion Taylor to Claudia Mabel Mahoney who born January 26, 1877 in Brundidge, Alabama. Claudia died in 1922 in Rose Hill, Alabama and is also buried at the Magno!
lia Cemetery. James Marion went into the automobile business that would go on to become the Taylor Auto Parts and Supply Company in Andalusia.

6: Katie Belle Barrington was born the Ivey Creek community of Crenshaw County, Alabama on November 30, 1897. Katie, known as "Belle" married in 1920 in Crenshaw County to Thomas Jefferson Bryan. Thomas was a son of John Lumpkin Bryan and Ella Ophelia Mills. The Bryan family was originally from the neighboring county of Pike where they lived in the Brundige community prior to the birth of Thomas. Thomas and Belle lived their entire lives in Crenshaw County. As a small child I personally remember the home where Belle resided in Brantley and often I remember my mother visiting her. Thomas had died many years prior to Belle. He died on August 26, 1938 and Belle never remarried, living out her life with the companionship of her friends. She died at the Luverne Nursing Home in Luverne, Crenshaw County, Alabama at the age of ninety on January 17, 1988. Bele and Thomas are buried in Crenshaw County. Thomas and Katie had two children, Elizabeth and Terry. Elizabeth married Dennis M!
ount.

Of all of the Barrington descendants I have spent many hours on researching, other than those of my immediate family, it is the family of Elizabeth Ophelia Bryan and Dennis Richard Mount that I can remember. Spending my childhood in Brantley, the Mount family lived only a few blocks away, residing for many years on what was known as Main Street, a section of US 331 that passed through the small township of Brantley. It was here that Dennis and Elizabeth raised their four children, and successfully operated a family owned business known as "Mount Hardware". This small hardware business lay in the middle of the western block of downtown Brantley, the town so small it only had one block that served as the business district. Even though small, all of the needs of the community could be found here.

Dennis Mount came to Brantley in the year of 1946, moving there from the nearby town of Luverne, where he worked in Steve Hicks Department Store. While there he formed a partnership with Mr. Billy Hicks of Luverne and though Dennis and Mr. Hicks were partners, he and his wife Elizabeth had the responsibility of day to day running of the business. A year or so later, he bought Mr. Hicks out and the store became known as Mount Hardware, the Hicks-Mount sign stayed up for a while after he purchased the store and many of the old-timers thought that Dennis' name was Hicks Mount and would call him Mr. Hick Mount or Mr Hicks Mount. Mount Hardware Store, from at least six years before my birth to some thirty years plus after my birth, the Hardware store remained in business. Though out my childhood, my father, Zeddie "Zed" Shackleford, purchased most of his tools and equipment needed for his plumbing business from this store. Dad also maintained a vegetable garden during my childh!
ood, as did most who lived in Brantley, you can be sure the tools needed to maintain this garden also came from Mount Hardware. I would venture to say that probably for a period of nearly fourty years that any plumbing, carpenter work or any garden tools most likely came from this store.

Elizabeth died at the age of 76 years on June 03, 1997. Dennis Mount is still living, having reached the age of 92 years, many of those years spent serving and providing for the citizens of his life long home town.

7: George Rhedie "Reedy" Barrington was born July 26, 1899 in Ivey Creek, Crenshaw County, Alabama and died December 14, 1933 in Crenshaw County, Alabama. He married Floy Pitts December 18, 1925 in Crenshaw County, Alabama. Floy was born about 1905 in Alabama. George Reidde "Reedy" Barrington married and died at a young age. Mrs. Eva N. Shackleford of Brantley, Crenshaw County, Alabama (born 1916) and who is still living stated that she remembered her mother's first cousin, known only as "Reedy" and at this time she was probably around ten years of age.

8: John M. Barrington Jr., was born February 08, 1902 in Dozier, Crenshaw County, Alabama, some seven months after the death of his father. He died May 20, 1962 in Dozier, Crenshaw County, Alabama. John married Janie Atkins December 21, 1924 in Greenville, Butler County, Alabama, a daughter of William Atkins and Jessie Knight. She was born July 16, 1904 in Monterey, Butler County, Alabama, and died February 21, 1987 in Dozier, Crenshaw County, Alabama.



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