Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Barnes, Elly Ruff August 12, 1871 - November 10, 1953
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Author: Thomas McAdory Owen, Vol. III, published 1921, page 100

Barnes, Elly Ruff, teacher, was born August 12, 1871, at Strata, Montgomery 
County, son of Justus McDuffy [sic] and Louisiana Rutherford (Ruff) Barnes (q. 
v.).  Elly Ruff Barnes received his entire education at the hands of his father 
whose schools he attended at Strata and Highland Home, graduating from the 
latter college June, 1891.  He spent four summer vacations in normal study 
under distinguished specialists.  He began teaching immediately upon 
graduation, assisting his father for seven years in his Alma Mater, and removed 
to Montgomery in 1898 where he taught one year in the city boy’s high school.  
He again joined his father and together they conducted the Barnes school for 
boys in Montgomery, founded in 1898, and became principal of the school after 
his father’s retirement.  He is a Democrat and member of the Church of Christ.  
Married:  June 9, 1897, at Highland Home, to Ula, daughter of Temple and Ladie 
(Anderson) Bowling who lived at Russellville, and formerly in Adairville, Ky.; 
granddaughter of judge Robert C. Bowling of Logan County, Ky., and a descendant 
of Jonathan Clark who was the brother of George Rogers Clark both of whom were 
heroes of the northwest territorial history.  The Andersons lived at Lebanon, 
Tenn., and were of Revolutionary ancestry.  Col. Paul Anderson, uncle of Mrs. 
Barnes, commanded a Confederate regiment known as "Paul’s People."  She had 
five uncles who were officers in the C. S. Army.  Children:  1.  Justus Mac, 
jr.;  2. Robert Bowling.  Residence:  Montgomery

Additional Information:

Elly Ruff Barnes is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery County, Alabama
with his wife, Ula.  Ula was born July 04, 1878 and died April 20, 1957.
They share a tombstone.

Also buried in the same plot is their son, Justus McIlwane Barnes, born
December 02, 1902, died January 03, 1980.  He became a physician.  Buried
with Justus is his wife, Frances Shakleford, born March 16, 1909, died
August 08, 1974.  They also share a stone.  

This plot is the family plot of James Madison Garrett, Jr., son of James 
Madison Garrett and his wife, Sophronia Arabella "Belle" Garrett of Mount 
Willing, Lowndes County, Alabama.  James Madison Garrett, Jr. married first 
Lucy Tankersley on September 29, 1889.  She died September 21, 1910 and
is buried in this same family plot.  James Madison Garrett, Jr. married
second Mary Cleveland Barnes, daughter of Justus McDuffie Barnes and
Ethel Rawden, their first child and half-sister to Elly Ruff Barnes.  
They were married September 06, 1911 in Montgomery, Montgomery County,
Alabama.  James was born September 24, 1864.  He was the city engineer
for a time with his son, Roy.  James died December 20, 1943.  Mary
Cleveland Barnes Garrett was born January 05, 1881 and died 
March 22, 1930.  They are buried in the family plot and share
a stone.

Elly & Ula's son, Robert Bowling Barnes, earned a PhD and went on
to teach at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.  He married
Eva Hoffman.  Robert was born June 9, 1906 and died August 7, 1981.


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