| Name |
Nancy Anna* Hardin (or Harder) |
| Birth |
Abt 1770 |
Virginia  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Residence |
1818 |
Barnhill Twp, Wayne Co, Illinois |
- History of Wayne County
The Barnhills were the first settlers in this part of the county. A tradition is rent that Gen. Hargraves and his rangers encamped at a spring in 1813, near the northwest part of the present town of Fairfield, and that some of the Barnhills were with him. The tradition is further authority for the fact, that while the rangers were encamped here, the Barnhills selected the lands upon which they afterward settled. In the absence of the authentic information to the contrary, we will give them the credit of being the first settlers here, and of dating their coming back to the year mentioned above. The elder Barnhill, the patriarch of the tribe, died in Gallatin County, where he had located very early, but his widow came here with her family, and settled in the north or northwest part of this township. The Widow Barnhill has a grandson living in Fairfield, now quite an old man. Another grandson was killed in the late civil war, but at the time lived in Xenia, Clay County. The older members of the family are all gone, and nearly forgotten, too, by the growing up generation. They came here because of contry, although but a wilderness was beautiful to behold, and the abundance of wild animals gratified their passion for hunting. They flinched not from the contest that met them on the wild border, and even their women and children often performed deeds from which the iron nerves of manhood might well hav shrunk in fear. In their death passed away some of the landmarks that divide the past from the prsent. Their names should not be suffered to sink in oblivion, but as the pioneers of this immediate vicinity, they should be kept in bright remembrance.
pg 195
|
| Census |
7 Aug 1820 |
Wayne Co, Illinois |
- Name: Mc Anna Barnhill
COUNTY: Wayne
State: Illinois
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Males - Under 10: 2 aft 1810
(children of couple)
Free White Males - 10 thru 15: 2 1805-1810
bro2, bro3
Free White Males - 16 thru 25: 4 1795-1804
Audley, John, Felix, Jefferson's father
Free White Males - 26 thru 44: 1 1776-1794
Free White Females - 26 thru 44: 1 1776-1794
Free White Females - 45 and over: 1 1775 or less Anna
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2
Number of Persons - Engaged in Commerce: 1
Free White Persons - Under 16: 4
Free White Persons - Over 25: 3
Total Free White Persons: 11
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 11
Looks like Anna living with another couple who are married and have 2 children under 10; and 6 other sons still at home.
Felix, John and Audley easily still home in 1820.
1 son listed in age group 16-25 not accounted for.
Although history of Wayne co said Felix was older, he was older of the three brothers that they talked about, Felix, John and Andley. However, the book also mentioned Jefferson was grandson. His census records had him b 1817 or 1818. Felix was at 1800 or 1801 from his census records. Jefferson said his parents were from SC; but Katherine and Martha said their father was from KY or PA - not SC. Had to be an older brother that the article didn't include. Perhaps he had died early on and not in the picture.
|
| Census |
28 Nov 1820 |
Wayne Co, Illinois |
| Illinois Census |
- Name: Anna Mrs. Barnhill
State: IL
COUNTY: Wayne County
Township: Nov. 28, 1820
Year: 1820
Record Type: State or colonial census
Page: 326
Database: IL 1820 State Census Index
|
| Religion |
1827 |
Wayne Co, Illinois |
| Presbyterian |
- History of Wayne County
Patton camp ground where preachers conducted a meeting in 1822. ... At these early meetings, though, denominational in their character, theCumberland Presbyterians and Methodists usually united in bearng the burdens for the occasion and the labors of the altar; sometimes Methodies, at other, Presbyterian; their denominational features were only determined by the minister in charge.
In the summer of 1827 and for some years afterward, the Methodists held a camp meeting near a spring on the Porter place, one and one half miles northeast of Fairfield, under the charge of Jacob Delap, the pastor. It was here that Charles Slocumb preached the funeral of John Barnhill and his wife. ...
Coming to this meeting, John Y. Bradshaw, then a boy, was driving an ox team, when approaching the creek the thirsty oxen suddenly made a dash for the water, upsetting the cart, and turning the box upside down, with old Mrs. B. and the camp provisions on the under side.
A vessel of honey was spilled on Mrs. B., when she hollowed lustily for dear life, declaring that she was already killed dead, mashed flat, every bone in her body crushed into splinters, and that she was all covered with blood. When realeased, unhurt, she seemed greatly disappointed at finding no real blood, and left in high dudgeon, saying it was an unpardonable sin to attend a Methodist meeting anyhow and that this was a judgement sent on her for doing so. She was never afterward seen in an ox cart riding to a Methodiest camp-meeting.
pg 110
|
| Census |
1830 |
Wayne Co, Illinois |
| w/ Felix |
- Name: Felie H Brockus
[Felix H Barnhill]
Home in 1830: Wayne, Illinois
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 (1816-1820) son 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 3 (1801-1810)
Bro1? , Bro2? Felix
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 (1791-1800)
Jefferson's father
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 (aft 1825) dau1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1(1801-1810) Mrs. Felix
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1(1761-1770)
Anna
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 5
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 8
It looks like they have two children, a boy over 10 and a girl less than 5.
Looks like they are living with one of their mothers with three sons 20 to 29 (1801-1810) and
Felix is the 1800 slot.
based on 1840 census, Felix is b 1801; so 29 yrs old
wife is same or younger
|
| Census |
1840 |
Wayne Co, Illinois |
| w/ Gson Jefferson |
- Name: Jefferson W Barnhill
COUNTY: Wayne
State: Illinois
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Jefferson
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 mother
Free White Persons - Females - 70 thru 79: 1 Anna,grandmother
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 3
|
| Death |
Aft 1840 |
of, Wayne Co, Illinois |
| Notes |
- History of Wayne County
"It is an accepted tradition---a tradition borne out by local facts---that the first house in Fairfield was built by the Barnhills. They had entered the land from the Government, upon which the town was laid out, and had lived there for some time before, and thus may be termed the first settlers of the town, as well as the first of the township. This first house stood a little north of the present bank building, but on the opposite side of the street, near the marble factory. It has passed away with other landmarks of the pioneer days, and the spot now is only known by a few of the older citizens. The house was torn down by Mr. Womack, who built a residence upon the site which is still standing, but which has been considerably enlarged and improved, and is now owned by Mr. Smith. John Barnhill built the second residence in Fairfield, on the lot where Mr. Thomas L. Cooper's handsome brick residence now stands. It was of logs, and was built by Barnhill just after his marriage, which took place about the time of laying out the town. The elder Barnhill, the patriarch of the Barnhill family, died in Gallatin County before any of the family moved to this section, as we have stated in a preceding chapter, and his widow came here with her children among the earliest settlers of the county. Hardin Barnhill was the eldest son, and John, mentioned above, was the second, while Audley was the third and youngest. The family at one time was a rather numerous and prominent one---prominent in business and local affairs, but of no particular pre-eminence. They were honest, industrious, honorable, faithful and accommodating---kings among their kind, fine types of their class, with instincts keenly whetted in their struggle for existence against the wild game, the ferocious beasts and the murderous savage. The Barnhills have now been dead for many years, with no lineal descendants surviving them nearer than the grandson of the Widow Barnhill---"Jeff" Barnhill, as he is called. Even he is growing old, and is becoming bent with age and infirmity. There is much in the history of the Barnhills that recalls a type of that day. They had been admirably trained, or had trained themselves, for their place in life, and in security and content had lived out their span, filling to fullness their measure of ambition."
pg 179-180
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| Person ID |
I32301 |
Roots |
| Last Modified |
24 May 2016 |
| Family |
John* Barnhill, b. 15 Feb 1760 d. 1817, Gallatin Co, Illinois (Age 56 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1796 |
| Children |
| + | 1. (father of Jefferson) Barnhill, b. Abt 1797, South Carolina d. Bef 1845, Fairfield, Wayne Co, Illinois (Age ~ 47 years) |
| + | 2. Felix* Harder (Hardin) Barnhill, b. Abt 1800, Kentucky or New Hampshire or Pennsylvania d. Aft 1845, Wayne Co, Illinois (Age ~ 46 years) |
| | 3. John W. Barnhill, b. 1800, Greenville Co, South Carolina d. Dec 1828, Fairfield, Wayne Co, Illinois (Age 28 years) |
| + | 4. Audley Hamilton Barnhill, b. 22 Dec 1804, York Co, South Carolina/North Carolina d. 28 Dec 1881, Ashland, Saunders Co, Nebraska (Age 77 years) |
| | 5. (Felix bro 2) Barnhill, b. Abt 1806 d. Aft 1830, of, Wayne Co, Illinois (Age ~ 25 years) |
| | 6. (Felix bro 3) Barnhill, b. Abt 1808 d. Aft 1830, of, Wayne Co, Illinois (Age ~ 23 years) |
| | 7. (Felix bro 4) Barnhill, b. Abt 1809 d. Aft 1830, of, Wayne Co, Illinois (Age ~ 22 years) |
|
| Family ID |
F11329 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
20 Apr 2011 |
Abt 1770 - Aft 1840 (~ 71 years)