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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 46)

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John N. Barnes was born in Adams county, Ohio, on the 16th of January, 1828. His father, Luther Barnes, was born in Parkersburg, Virginia, in 1800. At twenty-one years of age he moved to Ohio, where he married Nancy Wear. They had a family of ten children, of whom John is the sixth. Luther Barnes came to Fulton county in 1835, and died in 1860. His wife lived until 1867. 
   
In 1850 John Barnes made a trip to California, where he remained three years. On his return he engaged in farming, and in 1866 he married Elvira Bolman. They have one child, Lydia Belle.