Samuel Gann of Winchester Va Family

Jacob BarnesAge: 88 years18191907

Name
Jacob Barnes
Given names
Jacob
Surname
Barnes
Birth February 20, 1819
MarriageLydia A. (Liddey) GannView this family
October 18, 1874 (Age 55 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Sarah Jane Barnes
about 1878 (Age 58 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Kate A. Barnes
August 7, 1879 (Age 60 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Nancy Ann Barnes
February 1882 (Age 62 years)
Birth of a daughter
#4
Margaret Aldine Barnes
November 12, 1886 (Age 67 years)

Death of a daughterMargaret Aldine Barnes
May 23, 1906 (Age 87 years)

Death June 15, 1907 (Age 88 years)
Burial
Family with Lydia A. (Liddey) Gann - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: October 18, 1874Hamilton Co, TN
4 years
daughter
19 months
daughter
3 years
daughter
5 years
daughter
Steven H. Jones + Lydia A. (Liddey) Gann - View this family
wife’s husband
wife
Marriage: June 21, 1866Hamilton Co, TN
Divorce:

Note

From Phyllis Horsman, 1032 River Hills Circle, Chattanooga, TN 37415 9/5/96.

Jacob's parents were killed by Indians in Rhea Co, TN. Jacob's brother William was taken and raised by a family in MO (returning to Hamilton Co, TN to live), and Jacob was mentored by Major Robert Clark McRee, Sr., a farmer, miller and pioneer settler in north Hamilton Co. They sent him to school, and after he reached manhood, gave him $300, a horse and new saddle and told him he could go anywhere he wanted to. He replied that he was at home there and was going to stay. He lived next door to Maj. Mcree and Col. William Clift throughout the 1800's. Col. Clift was Hamilton Co.'s first millionaire, making his fortune in steamboat trade. William Clift married Jacob and Lydia.

At his 87th birthday, noted in a Soddy Banner newspaper, Jacob Barnes "tipped the beam at 105 pounds," was not very tall and had white chin whiskers down to his waist. He had raised 15 children. He could "lift a bushel of grain with ease" and had been a miller for over 60 years, half of that time at Clift Mill situated on Soddy Creek. He was an ardent Republican and "still exercised the elective franchise."

The earliest settlers of the area, including the short-lived James County, crossed the Tennessee River on the Igou Ferry at Blue Springs (near where Dividing ridge is today, south of the Salem community and bordered by the Tennessee River on the west) to get their grain ground at the older established mills, such as the Clift Mill run by Jake and Lydia. The farmers in the area were known for raising corn, wheat, and hay from oats, millet and soybeans. There was usually no monetary exchange; the custom was for the miller to take a measure of grain call the "toll," usually an eighth of the total amount. Blue Springs was one of five steamboat landings in the Soddy to James County area. Blue Springs became an early trading center due to its location near the landing for the Igou Ferry from the west side of the Tennessee River and its proximity to the Harrison-Birchwood Road. The Igou Ferry (former Teenor Ferry) provided transportation across the Tennessee River to Dallas, the earliest county seat of Hamilton County.