Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Barnes, Justus McDuffie February 10, 1836 - April 28, 1913
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Author: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, by Thomas McAdory Owen, Vol. III, published 1921, pages 100-101

Barnes, Justus McDuffie, teacher and Christian minister, was born February 10, 
1836, near Ada, Montgomery County, and died April 28, 1913, in Montgomery; son 
of Elkanah and Mary (Lumpkin) Barnes of Prince George County, Md., lived in 
Edgefield District, S.C., came in 1818 to Pintlala section, Montgomery County, 
and accumulated wealth by carpentry and acquired lands by entry, a farmer, 
merchant, surveyor, militia man, and one of the escort that received and 
attended General Lafayette during his visit to Montgomery; grandson of Henry 
and Ann (Lanham) Barnes, of Edgefield, S.C., and of Thomas and Jane (McIlwaine) 
Lumpkin of Lancaster, S.C., who located near Strata, Montgomery County.  His 
great-grandfather Barnes was a native of Holland who fought as captain in the 
Revolutionary War; great-grandfather Lanham was a relative of William Lanham 
who came to Maryland with Lord Baltimore, and great-grandfather Lumpkin was of 
English stock.  The McIlwaines were of Scotch origin.  The Guinns were Irish.  
Justus McDuffe Barnes was well educated, having received his preparatory 
training from Felix Tankersley at Strata, Professor Mangum, a native of Ireland 
and graduate of the University of Dublin who taught at Rocky Mount, now 
Highland Home, and from George C. Freeman who taught near Pine Level.  He 
attended Bethany college, Virghina, now West Virginia, 1854-56, and graduated 
with a degree of A. B. during the presidency of Alexander Campbell who founded 
the college.  He began teaching at Strata, in 1856, on his father’s plantation, 
with thirteen pupils, but his school quickly grew in favor and soon developed 
into the Strata high school with an enrollment of nearly two hundred students, 
of which his two brothers-in-law, Samuel Jordan and M. L. Kirkpatrick became 
joint proprietors.  The location was changed to Highland Home, with a change of 
name in 1881 to Highland Home Institute, changing again in 1889 to Highland 
Home college which remains as a monument to the vision and labors of its 
founders.  He resigned the presidency of this school in 1898 and removed his 
family to Montgomery where he established the Barnes school for boys, conducted 
for the past twelve years by his son, Ely Barnes.  He was one of the greatest 
community forces of his state and organized numerous civic and patriotic 
associations.  By giving the people clean pleasures, music, public speaking and 
social gatherings, he fought and helped destroy the liquor interests of his 
county and section.  In 1861, he assumed charge of his father’s estate and 
conducted all the farming interests thereafter.  In 1862, he was ordained to 
preach by the Church of Christ, and during the remainder of his life engaged 
actively in the ministry, having organized many congregations in Alabama and 
other states.  He was director of the old Montgomery southern railroad no part 
of the Atlantic coast line.  He was conscientiously opposed to war, believing 
it antagonistic to the principles of Christianity and was, on this account 
excused from military service during the war between the states by the governor 
of Alabama.  He was a democrat in sympathy but took no part in politics even 
declining to vote on the grounds that a Christian should be about “his Father’s 
business,” and not entangle himself with politics.  He was a contributor to the 
press for fifty years, mainly in church papers, and in early manhood wrote 
under the pen name of “The Little Man.”  At the time of his death, which was 
occasioned by an automobile accident, he was running several series of articles 
in “Word and Work,” New Orleans, La., and “The firm foundation,” Austin, Tex.  
For many years he wrote for the “Gospel advocate,” Nashville, Tenn., and made 
contributions to books of sermons, and also wrote occasional articles for the 
Montgomery papers on social economic and relitious topics.  Married:  (1) May 
23, 1869, near Strata, to Louisiana Ruff, widow of W. B. Culler, daughter of 
John Hayney and Harriet (Graham) Ruff, who lived near Lapine; the Ruffs came to 
Alabama about 1864 from Newberry District, S.C.; the ancestry was from Holland 
and were Lutherans; great-granddaughter of Rev. Meetze, a Lutheran minister who 
emigrated from Germany to South Carolina; (2) October 26, 1879, near 
Childersburg, to Ethel, daughter of John Potts and Sarah Cleveland Rawdon, the 
former a Missionary Baptist preacher.  Children:  by first wife:  1. Elly Ruff 
m. Ula Bowling (Q. V.); by second wife:  2. Mary Cleveland, m. J. M. Garrett, 
of Montgomery; 3. Frank Kirk, m. J. J. Campbell, Montgomery; 4. Justus Rawdon; 
5. Kanah Jordan, m. M. J. Bray, Montgomery; 6. Lanham (Lannie) Lumpkin; 7. 
Ethel Kathleen, m. H. V. Bell, Ramer; 8. Jean McIlwane; 9. Lucy Berna; 10. 
Harry McGuinn; 11. Hallen Quen; 12. John Potts.  Last residence:  Montgomery.

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