Autauga County AlArchives Biographies.....Barnes, Walter Herbert October 4, 1864 - 
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Author: Thomas McAdory Owen, Vol. III, published 1921, page 101

Barnes, Walter Herbert, business man, was born October 4, 1864, at 
Lowndesville, Abbeville County, S. C.; son of James Theophilus and Emma 
Josephine (Moseley) Barnes, a native of Barnes’ Mills, Abbeville County, who 
lived at Barnes’ Station on the Savannah Valley railroad of which he was a 
director for a number of years; grandson of Christian and Susan Barnes, the 
former a native of Virginia, later a resident of South Carolina, and of J. M. 
Moseley of that state a descendant of the Montague family of Virginia.  Walter 
Herbert Barnes was educated at Anderson, Lowndesville, and Fair Play, S. C., 
and graduated at Lexington, Ky., 1888, with honors.  He clerked in a dry goods 
store in Anderson, S. C., for five years and in 1889 removed to Anniston, from 
which point he accepted a similar position for the Daniel Pratt gin company.  
Two years later he was made manager of that company’s victory at Memphis, 
Tenn., with the direction of the sales department in five Southern states.  He 
is a Methodist and a Knight of Pythias.  Married:  November 26, 1895, at 
Prattville, to Dora Adelaide, daughter of Merrill E. and Julia Adelaide (Smith) 
Pratt (q. v.).  Children:  1. Julia Adelaide; 2. Emma Josephine; 3. Walter 
Herbert, jr.  Residence: Memphis, Tenn.

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