Descendants of John William Barnett, Sr. Jean Brand Generation No. 1 1. John William8 Barnett, Sr. (James7, James6 Barnet,Sr, James William5 Barnett, James4, John3, William2, William1) was born 1829 in Big Ridge, Scott Co., Va., and died 1901 in Maxwell, Indian Territory (now Pontotoc Co., OK). He married Elizabeth Adeline Johnston April 16, 1852 in Scott Co., VA., daughter of George Johnston and Sarah Barnett. She was born 1826 in VA., and died 1881 in Orlando, Rockcastle Co., KY. Notes for John William Barnett, Sr.: 1860 Rockcastle Co., KY (Census) age 31 ( Mt Vernon) with husband John Barnett 30, b. VA: James W. 6, Sarah J., 5, George 3, and Martha 1. More About John William Barnett, Sr.: 1: 1888, Muskoga, OK is the date and place George Robinson has for John's death. Burial: Maxwell Cemetery, Maxwell (now a ghost town) Census: 1870, Rockcastle Co., KY list District 1, age 42, born VA Occupation: 1870, Census has John listed as a farmer, preacher. He plowed 200 ac farm with a cow and ox. Notes for Elizabeth Adeline Johnston: Marriage by Rev. Rhoton Some say we are what, I don't think so: Who were the Melungeons? Researchers have long struggled with the question of who were the Melungeons and where did they come from? In simple terms, the Melungeons were a group of dark-skinned people with European features found living in the mountains of Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia by explorers as early as the mid-1600's. These people were farmers living in cabins and speaking broken english. They were clearly not Native Americans nor black or white. They practiced Christian religion and when asked who they were they replied that they were 'Portyghee.' No one has proven where the term Melungeon originated, however, it was long speculated to be of French origin meaning melange or mixture. Recent linguistic experts have shown that phrases with similar pronounciation to Melungeon (me-lun-juhn) existed in old Turkish/Arabic meaning cursed soul or one who's luck has run out. Over the years this mysterious group of people was pushed further west and higher up in the mountains as Scotch, Irish, English, and other settlers moved into the areas where the Melungeons had been living for years. During the struggle for land, the white settlers declared that the Melungeons were "Free Person of Color" or "mulatto." In many cases, this legal designation stripped the Melungeons of many of their rights including the right to vote, to send their children to school, and to defend themselves in a court of law. This led to the new settlers taking the land of the Melungeons. The loss of political rights and land caused many Melungeons to start over in new areas where no one knew them as Melungeons and they could "pass" for white and enjoy legal rights and education for their children. These families denied that they were Melungeons and told people they were "Black Dutch, Black Irish, Black Italian, etc." or Native American, ususally Cherokee, to account for their darker coloring or refused to talk about their ancestors at all. As generations passed, people accepted the stories that grandparents handed down about who their ancestors were and the term Melungeon came to be applied mainly to isolated groups in Hancock Co., TN, and Wise, Lee, and Dickenson Co., VA. It was here that researchers found them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and began speculating anew on their origins. The most popular traditional theories on the origins of the Melungeons were: Survivors from the Lost Colony of Roanoke; Tri-Racial Isolates (isolated groups of intermarried white, black, and Native American populations); Survivors from Portuguese shipwrecks; Descendants of the Welsh explorer "Madoc"; Descendants of one of the "lost tribes" of Israel; and Descendants of early Carthaginian or Phoenician seamen. Current popular theory suggests that the Melungeons were descendants of Spanish and Portuguese settlers who abandoned the Spanish settlement of Santa Elena in South Carolina during the late 16th century. These settlers eventually mingled with several Native American tribes including Powhatans, Pamunkeys, Creeks, Catawbas, Yuchis, and Cherokees. They may have also mingled with the survivors of several hundred Moorish and Turkish galley slaves and Portuguese and Spanish prisoners left on Roanoke Island (in modern North Carolina) by Sir Francis Drake in 1586. The final chapter on the Melungeons has not yet been written and the theories have not been proven so we invite you to join us in the search for our ancestors and the origins of the Melungeons. More About Elizabeth Adeline Johnston: Burial: Barnett Cemetery, Wolf Creek Rd, Orlando Census: 1870, Rockcastle Co., KY, lists her age 44, born VA Children of John Barnett and Elizabeth Johnston are: 2 i. James Wallace9 Barnett, born 1853 in Big Ridge, Scott Co., VA; died February 15, 1924 in Wolf Creek Rd., Orlando, Rockcastle Co., KY. He married (1) Abigail Ball 1879 in Rockcastle Co., KY; born 1859 in KY; died in Wolf Creek Rd., Orlando, Rockcastle Co., KY. He married (2) Mary Elizabeth Chasteen 1885 in Rockcastle Co., KY; born 1867 in Rockcastle Co., KY; died March 12, 1933 in Wolf Creek Rd., Orlando, Rockcastle Co., KY. Notes for James Wallace Barnett: Rockcastle Co., Cemetery book by Jeanne Snodgrass Bonham, page 501 marker has James born 1862, this isn't correct, he was born 1853 Big Ridge, Scott Co., VA. More About James Wallace Barnett: Burial: Barnett Cemetery, Wolf Creek Rd, Orlando Caste: 1880, Rockcastle Co., KY, list 26, born VA, his parents also born VA. Census: 1870, Rockcastle Co., KY, list his age as 17, born VA. More About Abigail Ball: Burial: Barnett Cemetery, Wolf Creek Rd, Orlando Census: 1880, Rockcastle Co., KY, list 21, born VA, her parents also born NC. More About Mary Elizabeth Chasteen: Burial: Barnett Cemetery, Wolf Creek Rd, Orlando 3 ii. Sarah Jane Barnett, born April 1855 in Big Ridge, Scott Co., VA; died 1906 in Pauls Valley,Garvin Co., Indian Territory. She married Fanteroy M. Malicoat December 21, 1879 in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle Co., KY; born 1860 in Madison Co., Ky.; died July 25, 1927 in Pauls Valley, Garvin Co., Ok.. Notes for Sarah Jane Barnett: Sarah Jane sure had a hard life being married to Fanteroy. He would take off and marry another woman, never bothering with divorce. Maybe he chased around because he was younger than Sarah Jane, or was he just a great lover? Sarah Jane was with child,(Frank, died very young) when Fanteroy took off and married wife # 2 woman. Sarah held a great love for Kentucky, she instill her love for the Blue Grass state in her children. Oh how she hated to leave Kentucky . She had 2 small children and another one on the way ( Sarah Elizabeth) ,as she made her way across the country to join her husband in Texas. Fant had shot a man for slapping Sarah Jane, the sheriff gave him the choice of leaving the county, never to return or going to jail. Fant left his wife and children in the care of his father-in law, sister and brother-in-law, ( Eli Wallace & Phoebe (Malicoat) Barnett. The man was a known trouble maker. Oct., 1995, Sara L. (Davis) Allen and I were driving through the hills of Kentucky, talking about our Granny ( Sarah Elizabeth (Malicoat) Davis), about the love Sarah Jane had for Kentucky, remembering Granny saying she always wanted to see the Blue Grass of Kentucky, when I looked up to heaven and said," Granny look through my eyes and see the beauty of the Blue Grass of Kentucky". >From all the years of research I have done, I feel I have the right to state how I see Fanteroy M. Malicoat, my great grandfather. More About Sarah Jane Barnett: Burial: Clabber Flat Cemetery Census: 1870, Rockcastle Co., KY, list her age 15, born VA Fact 1: Sarah Jane and Eli Wallace Barnett are siblings Notes for Fanteroy M. Malicoat: Chickasaw Nation Census 1900 lists Sarah Jane Malicoat as Head of House with 6 children. (one being my grandmother, Sarah E.) Name is under spelling Malicot and family number 205-182, copied from Pauls Valley library, Pauls Valley, OK. 1910 census lists Frank Malicoat as head of house, age 55, no wife. Fantroy was a playboy, he was still married to Sarah Jane [she was carrying Frank in her womb] when Fanteroy ran of and started living with a "old Lady Blue". When this lady became pregnant and Fanteroy refused to marry her, she took the life of her unborn child and her own. After her death, Fanteroy returned yet to took another wife, Elizabeth George and started yet another family. Records show proof on the same 11-13-1900, Fanteroy took yet another wife, Millie Beard in Maxwell, Indian Territory. No divorce has ever been found for Fanteroy. I found Fanteroy M. Malicoat and Elizabeth George's son Luther Malicoat and his son, Travis Malicoat living in CA. 7-1996. Three of Fanteroy and Sarah Jane [Barnett] Malicoat's daughter's married three sons of James Robert Finley and Millie[Blackwell] Davis in Indian Territory. Fant Malicoat age 39 & Laura Moore age 16 Maxwell, I.T. 2-17-1900 More About Fanteroy M. Malicoat: Burial: Clabber Flat Cemetery Census: 1880, Rockcastle Co., KY, list age 20, born KY, parents born TN. Fact 1: February 17, 1900, Chickasaw Groom Index states: took license to marry Laura Moore age 16, unused. 4 iii. George W. Barnett, born 1857 in Big Ridge, Scott Co., VA; died in Rockcastle Co., KY. He married Rose _______. Notes for George W. Barnett: Signs & Superstitions If you break a mirror, seven years of bad luck will follow. If you drop a fork, a man will come to visit you. If you drop spoon, a woman will come to visit you. If a bird flies into your house a death will occur. If you sweep under someone's feet, they will never marry. When your palm itches, you will come into some money. Two deaths in the community will be followed by a third. Never say "thank you" when someone gives you a plant or it will die. If you carry a hoe, spade, or shovel in the house, you must carry it out the same door you came in by, or a death will follow. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) If all the food on the table is eaten it will be a clear day tomorrow. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) If all of the biscuits were gone before the next day, the weather would be fair. (Oleen Pollard) If you start to go somewhere and come back for something you will have bad luck. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) If you count the number of rigs in a funeral procession you will soon have a death in your own family. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) If two forks are laid at a plate with no knife you will be invited to a wedding. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) Cats go crazy when a death occurs in their environment and consequently are kept out of the house on such occasions. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) If you drop a dish towel on the floor, a worse housekeeper than yourself is coming to visit you. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) Never begin a task on a Friday that you can't finish that week, or expect ill. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) If your ears itch or burn, someone is talking about you. A peculiar noise heard three times in succession at night, means someone will die. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) If you spilled some salt, you picked some of it up and threw it over your left shoulder to stop bad luck from coming. (Kay Blanton) When a black cat ran across the road in front of you, you would say BREAD & BUTTER ON MY TABLE, CUT IT WITH A BUTTER KNIFE if you could not turn around and go another way, or bad luck would come to you. (Kay Blanton) Dirt was never swept out the front door after the sun went down or bad luck would come to your home. (Kay Blanton) If a sparrow flew into the home, it had to be killed or someone in the family would die. (Kay Blanton) You never walked under a ladder or bad luck would come to you. (Kay Blanton) You could not step on a crack in the sidewalks, because it would break your mothers back. (Kay Blanton) If salt was borrowed from anyone, you paid it back with sugar or bad luck would come to you. (Kay Blanton) If you broke a mirrow you would have seven years of bad luck (Kay Blanton) A baby was never allowed to look in a mirror before it was a year old or it would die. (Kay Blanton) You always say so long or I'll see you later, & never goodbye, when leaving family members or you might never see them again. (Kay Blanton) If a woman was pregnant she never went to a funeral or she would mark her baby. (Kay Blanton) You never tickeled a baby's feet because it would make it stutter. (Kay Blanton) Weather Predictions When leaves on trees turn up, a storm is coming. When chimney smoke goes to the ground, bad weather will follow. A ring around the moon means that rain will come in three days. If big black storm clouds came up you take an axe, hold it up towards the sky and bring it down. This cut the clouds into so they would go away. (Kay Blanton) Planting Signs and Superstitions Plant peas on February 14th. Plant vegetables which grow underground, i.e. potatoes and carrots, in the dark of the moon and plant vegetables which grow above ground, i.e. corn and beans, in the light of the moon. On New Years day, the gender of the visitors into the home would determine whether the Spring chicken hatching was roosters or pullets. Female visitors meant pullets and male visitors meant roosters would be born. If the company was mixed, say 1 male and 2 females the greater percentage of chickens hatched would be pulletts. (Oleen Pollard) Folk Remedies The first snow of March should be collected and used to take the sting out of burns and other skin problems. Dream Interpretations Usually what you dreamed meant just the opposite. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection.) If you dreamed of a wedding, it meant a death. A death meant good luck. If you dreamed of a muddy river it meant bad luck was dogging your trail. If the river was clear, you need have no worries, your luck was good. More About George W. Barnett: 1: bur: beside his mother at Barnett Cemetery on Wolfe Creek Rd. Burial: Barnett Cemetery, Wolf Creek Rd, Orlando Census: 1870, Rockcastle Co., KY, list his age 13, born VA 5 iv. Martha Barnett, born 1859 in Wolfe Creek Road, Orlando, Rockcastle Co., KY; died in OK. She married Napoleon B. "Uncle Poe" Barnett February 14, 1882 in Rockcastle Co., KY; born 1858 in Laurel Co., KY age 52, name spelling Barnette.; died in OK. Notes for Martha Barnett: Married 2-1882, witnesses: EW Barnett & F Malicoat. They left Rockcastle Co., KY and went to Tulsa, OK. More About Martha Barnett: Census: 1870, Rockcastle Co., KY, list age 11, born KY Notes for Napoleon B. "Uncle Poe" Barnett: Napoleon moved to Oklahoma in February 1890. This line is from Kathryn Morris, Berea, KY More About Napoleon B. "Uncle Poe" Barnett: Census: 1880, Rockcastle Co., KY, list age 21, living at home. 6 v. Eli Wallace Barnett, born December 1861 in Wolf Creek Rd, Orlando, Rockcastle Co., KY; died 1921 in Elmore City, Garvin Co., OK. He married Phoebe D. Malicoat March 14, 1882 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky; born May 13, 1862 in Rockcastle Co., KY; died July 03, 1946 in Carlsbad, NM. More About Eli Wallace Barnett: Burial: Elmore City Cemetery Caste: 1870, Rockcastle Co., KY, list 9, born KY Census: 1880, Rockcastle Co., KY, list age 19, living at home More About Phoebe D. Malicoat: Burial: Elmore City Cemetery, OK DC # 14872 7 vi. John William Barnett,Jr., born February 14, 1863 in Rockcastle Co., KY; died May 03, 1933 in Ada, Pontotoc Co., OK. He married Celia Ann Johnston Bet. 1891 - 1892; born August 20, 1865 in Rockcastle Co., KY; died September 10, 1954 in Ada, Pontotoc Co., OK. More About John William Barnett,Jr.: 1: May 03, 1933, Death date taken from his headstone. Burial: Maxwell Cemetery Census: 1870, Rockcastle Co., KY, list 7, born KY Notes for Celia Ann Johnston: Ada Evening News Sunday September 12, 1954 pg 2 Mrs. Celia Barnett: Mrs. Celia Barnett, 91, of Route 2, Ada, died Friday at 3 p.m. at a local hospital; funeral today, Sunday, at 2, grave side, Maxwell Cemetery, Rev. Haskins: Criswell Funeral Home. Surviving are a son, Kelly Barnett of Ada; daughters, Mrs. Mary Buchanan, Mrs Pearl Johnson, Mrs Rhoda Berry of Ada, Mrs. Bertha Carmichael of Benecia, CA. brother Johnnie Johnson; several grandchildren and great grandchildren. More About Celia Ann Johnston: Burial: Maxwell Cemetery