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From: Donnie Shackleford <>
Subject: [Barrington] John Madison Barrington
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:50:43 -0700 (PDT)


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. Johns
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 Cooks 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 Holland 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 Elizabeths 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, Florida
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 Magnolia
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 Mount.

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 childhood, 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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