Collins, and has gone to stay, having sold his property in Atlantic.īarney must have made record time. Barney Harris has started overland for Ft. Collins, Colorado, which place they intend to make their future home. Wilson of Pymosa township this county, left Atlantic Sunday morning for Ft. The family's Iowa departure was noted in the May 15th, issue of the Atlantic Messenger (p. After less than 20 years, the west again called them, and Barney and Mary Jane, then age 61 years, hitched up the wagons, loaded their belongings, and went west to settle in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado. Once again Barney purchased land, in Pymosa Township of Cass County, and there most of the children grew to adulthood. And on 21 October 1847, Barney purchased lot #8, Block 4, in Huntsville.īetween the years 18, nine children were born to Barney and Mary Jane, all in Randolph County, Indiana Jonathan Arthur, born 28 June 1841 Edward Wesley, born 30 January 1843 Emma Jane, born 1 November 1845 William Henry, born 15 November 1847 George Asbury, born 26 January 1850 Martha Catherine, born Susan Elizabeth, born 28 October 1854, and died 31 August 1855 Lydia Ellen Harris, born, and died 7 July 1859 and Mary Abigail, born 21 October 1858.īarney and family remained in Randolph county, Indiana, until the early 1860's, when they migrated west to Cass county, Iowa, where many other Butler, Harris and Lamb families who had originally migrated to Indiana from Virginia with them had preceded them. On September 13, 1842, Barney purchased 40 acres of land from Elisha Gaddis - the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 3, Township 19 (West River), Range 13. Elizabeth was a sister to Barney's father Benjamin, so they were first cousins. Mary Jane was born on, in Campbell County, Virginia, the ninth child and last daughter born to Jonathan and Elizabeth Harris Butler. Shortly after their arrival in Indiana, a cousin, Mary Jane Butler, caught his eye, and on 24 September 1840, Barney took Mary Jane as his bride in Randolph County, Indiana. The move to Randolph county was a major change from the plantation style living they had been used to in Campbell county, Virginia. Moving "west" was to become a major influence in his life. Barnabas Arthur Harris, called "Barney", was the sixth child and third son born to Benjamin Butterworth and Susanna Eidson Harris, on 26 June 1818, in Campbell County, Virginia.īarney was about sixteen when his family joined several other families from Campbell county to go "west" to Randolph county Indiana to homestead.
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