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Jackson Walker
b. 01/22/1854
d. 02/09/1924

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Date: November 14, 2000

My cousin and I are doing family history research, and I hope that someone reading the information we have about our Strickland ancestor may recognize her and her family.
Family stories have said that the wife of my great great grandfather, James Barnes, was a Nancy Eugenia Strickland from Georgia. She and James had two sons: James Charles, George Wesley (or Westley) and possibly one daughter, Nancy J. James Charles and George Wesley were born in Holmes County, Florida. Nancy Strickland Barnes died in Florida. Her husband, James, subsequently remarried. Eventually he and his descendants immigrated to Texas.
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The following comes from a family bible:
Grandfather Barnes came from South Carolina. He had three brothers, names - - Cornelius, William and Wesley. His name was James. He came from South Carolina into Georgia and thence to Florida and Alabama stopping at Mobile. He was a ship carpenter. William and Wesley also came south to Alabama and Mississippi. My grandmother Barnes was named Nancy Strickland before her marriage.
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The following comes from a letter written in 1967 by a granddaughter of George Wesley, son of James Barnes and Nancy Eugenia Strickland):    My grandfather (George) died about 1934 at 92. When he was living it didn’t enter my mind to ask him any family history and now there are so many things I’d love to know. This is what I know:   His father was overseer on a
large plantation (I am not sure where but think it was in Georgia). The plantation owner, Mr.Strickland, had a daughter named Nancy and she and Great Grandfather Barnes fell in love and ran off and got married. Her family never heard of her
again. I think they went to Florida where Great Grandfather Barnes worked as a ship builder and where I think George and Jim were born. Nancy died when the boys were young. My grandfather said he could remember very little about her but remembered her going out in the yard one day when her husband was killing hogs. Grandfather said she had a red scarf over her head and she was the prettiest thing he’d ever seen. She died soon afterward and he and little brother Jim were
frightened and confused and hid up in the fireplace and watched the people who came to the house. Then later when their father married again (a woman named Harriet) the stepmother was mean to them and my grandfather ran away from home. I don’t know if Uncle Jim did too or not. My mother was named for her father’s mother - Nancy Eugenia.
    The late Senator Tom Connelly of Marlin was related to the Stricklands but I don’t know how. Many years ago he asked my grandfather if he was the Barnes connected to the Nancy that ran away and married a Barnes. He said for many years he’d asked every person with the name Barnes with whom he came in contact if they were any offspring of Nancy and had given up hope of finding any trace of her. Her family was apparently very sad not to have ever heard of her after she left home - and that is an awful thing to happen.
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    We have found our James Barnes listed in the 1850 Holmes County Census. He is listed as 5 years old in the household of James Barnes of South Carolina, age 36, Farmer. Also listed were a female, Nancy J., age 10 born in Ga. and a male, George, age 7, born in Florida. Nancy Strickland is not listed so we assumed she died between 1845 and 1850.
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    A biographical entry about George Barnes of McLellan Falls, Texas states that his mother was Nancy Strickland of Georgia and that her father was James Strickland.
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I have found a Nancy Strickland, daughter of James Strickland, born in Pierce County at approximately the correct dates.
I hope that in reading this information, perhaps, someone will recognize some of the names or the story of the runaway daughter and will have information to help us explore our Strickland line. Anita Lowen roglow@aol.com

Date: August 23, 2004 Earl Cleland

My family of Clelands originated in Pierce County with the arrival of JOHN CLELAND from Beaufort Co., S.C. in the mid-1800's. All of his children were born in Pierce County, and most of them lived and died there-- With the change of boundary lines and migration to "work locations".. some ended up in Ware and Brantley Co.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabrantl/cleland.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabrantl/clealfsr.html

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