The Mansfield News
April 15, 1903Mrs. Heziah Payne Barrett was born in Berkshire county Massachusetts, Sept. 18, 1809 (sic April 18). In 1828 she was married to Haskell Barrett. In 1858 they moved to Ohio, Hardin county, one year; Mansfield, two years; Plymouth, one year; Lexington in 1861 and lived there 16 years and moved to Belleville O., in 1877, where she has lived ever since.
She is the mother of five children, four of whom are dead. Her son M. H. Barrett, was a soldier in the Civil War, serving his country three years.
She often heard Charles G. Finney, the noted Evangelist, preach the gospel in Hinsdale, Mass. Also heard Henry Ward Beecher preach in Pittsfield, Mass. She was raised a Presbyterian, but united with the Methodist church in Hinsdale, Mass., in Nov. 1839, and continued a regular communivant in that church until about 1880, when she changed her church connection and united with the Presbyterian church in Belleville during the pastorate of Rev. W. W. Anderson. She has ever been a firm believer in the great truths of the gospel and until old age and infrmity incapacitated her, she was a regular attendant upon all the services of the sanctuary.
In 1889, June 23, her husband died leaving her to continue the journey of life alone. They had lived together in happy domestic relations during 60 years. Her eyesight is about gone, but her hearing is still good and she is in the usual health of persons of advanced age. Her greatest enjoyment is in her Saviour. Her mental faculties are in perfect order and her conversational powers far beyond the average. She has been a reader of the best religious literature from her early childhood and her bible has been a daily companion.
The great extent of her life is seen when we consider that the "Clermont" had made her trip on the Hudson only 19 months before Mrs. Barrett was born. James Madison was president when she was an infant in the cradle. Ohio was only six years old at her birth. She has lived under the administration of every president of the United States excepting two, Washington and Jefferson. She has experienced the privilege of living during all the wars of the United States, except the revolution. When she was a year old the Third United States census was taken and the population was about 7,000,000, and there were but 17 states. John C, Calhoun was a member and Henry Clay was a speaker of the house of representatives when she was two years old. She was a woman before the Battle of New Orleans. she was six years old. When "Old Hickory" fought steam, electricity, the phonograph, telegraph and many other modern appliances were brought into practical use. [some of the preceding seems to be missing ]Long may she live, as a testimony to the power of trhe gospel in old age.
The following is taken from a letter written by Charles Lucius Barrett to John Randolph Barrett, III, dated April 1918.
He left his home in Massachusetts at an early age and settled first at Paxinos, Pennsylvania, where he taught school for a short time and then disappeared (he was an alcoholic). His whereabouts were unknown until about 1852, when he was located in Philadelphia, PA by his elder brother John.
After leaving Paxinos, he settled at Pottsville, Schuylkill County. After his marriage he moved to Philadelphia, then to Montoursville, PA and engaged in boating on the West Branch Canal with his nephew Charles L. Barrett. He later moved to Howard and finally to Mill Hall, Clinton County, PA. he died of old age. His wife died about a year earlier of paralysis.
14700. George Washington Barrett
George became a baker and caterer. After service in the Civil War, in which he received a wound, he moved to Erie, Pennsylvania, but a few years later returned to the home of his parents in Mill Hall, PA where he engaged for a brief time in painting and paperhanging and later opened a bakery and restaurant. His property was subsequently destroyed by fire and he abandoned the business. He was small man, of mild manners and pleasing personality.
6224. Charles Chandler Barrett
Charles mastered fancy boot and shoe making at an early age, while still attending school periodically. He and his wife first lived at Dalton, MA (two years), then moved to Root, Montgomery County, NY (ten years), then to Sharon Springs, Schenectady, and Chaumont, NY. They next moved to Limerick, then Oneida, and finally Parish, where he died of old age. He was a man of most regular habits, of quiet, gentle disposition; an exponent of simple life.
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Lowell S. ThomasCASPER J. REED, deceased, was born in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1809, son of John Reed.
He was a mason by trade, and at one time was engaged in the mercantile business at Snufftown, Pennsylvania, in connection with A. C. Barrett. He also constructed a portion of the old railroad between Sunbury and Shamokin. He subsequently located in Rush township and engaged in farming, purchasing one hundred eighty acres, where he resided until his death in 1885; his wife died in 1889.
He was married in 1834 to Alice C., daughter of Nathan Barrett, of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and by this union they were the parents of thirteen children: Angeline, deceased, who married Doctor Snyder; Gillman; James; Mary A., wife of Peter V. Johnson; Matilda, wife of R. B. Ammerman; Rebecca, wife of Henry Kimbler; Rosetta, wife of Marshall Davison; Alice, wife of D. Rockefeller; Florence, wife of Joseph Gulick; Lafayette; Howard M.; Elizabeth, deceased, and Esther, deceased.
Pittsfield Sun
April 30, 1873Deaths at Hinsdale, 27th inst. Charles E. Watknins, age 55 [sic died on 26th]
Silas became a blacksmith and also did farming and shoe making. The family resided at Hinsdale, Pittsfield, Belchertown, and Warren, MA. In December 1882, Silas went to the Pacific coast with his daughter Mary to join her husband, George N. Shumway, who had settled a year earlier on a timber tract near Belfast, WA. The journey was made by rail to San Francisco, thence boat to Seattle, boat to Edison, then by oxen into the sparsely settled interior of Washington. He resided here until his death eight years later of paralysis.
Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
Name: George N. Shumway
State Filed: Washington
Widow: Mary B. Shumway
Invalid filed Apr 20, 1897, application # 1189712, cert # 976054
widow filed July 19, 1916, application # 1069444, cert # 815625
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At the time of their marriage he was engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements. A short time after their marriage, he went to the state of Washington and pre-empted a tract of 160 acres of fir and cedar timberland near Belfast, Skagit County. He built a log house, and about a year later was joined by his wife and her father, Silas James Barrett. The Puget Sound country was the very sparsely populated and the nearest settlement of white men was some seven miles distant.After twenty-five years the tract was cleared of timber, and they removed to the town of Anacortes and engaged in retailing hardware. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in Company H of the 46th Massachusetts Infantry; a member of the Masonic Fraternity and G.A.R., and a strong supporter of the Congregational Church. He was a prominent and highly respected citizen of Anacortes.
Norwich Courier
4 February 1818Died - At Canterbury, very suddenly, on Wednesday night last, Capt. John Baldwin, aged 39 years. The deceased ritired to bed apparently as well as usual.