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CARNES-JONES

    James H. Jones, Sr. author of the arithmetic made in 1795-1796, m. Sarah
Wyley. Ch.: (1) James Hardwick, Jr. b. Feb. 22, 1812; d. Dec. 1. 1902, m.
Elizabeth Hickey; (2) Garland; (3) George d. 1890 unmarried. Garland's heirs
mentioned as beneficiaries in the will of this brother George (recorded in
Chattahoochee Co.) viz: John, Jesse, and Ambrose Jones, also Wm. Trippe. (4)
Sarah, d. soon after finishing college; (5) Martha Laird m. Dr. Robert Watkins
Carnes; 11 ch., among them John H. Carnes.

(Following data furnished by Mrs. Berta Carnes Dudley)
   John Howard Carnes came to Chattahoochee Go. about 1850 and always made his
home at Pine Knot Springs.

    Ch. of John Howard and Mary Forester Carnes: (1) Alice m. Wm. B. Carhart;
one son Lewis H. Carhart of Atlanta; (2) Apolis Forester, now living in Orlando,
Fla.; (3) Alexander Stephens m. Sara Wiley of Sparta, Ga. one son, John Howard
Carnes, (4) John Rhodes, d. in 1911. (5) Lila Harrell m. Harry DuVall of
Norfolk, Va., d. July 1912. (6) Emily Roberta m. 1st Clifford Rushin of Buena
Vista, Ga.; two sons, J. Frank and Merrell Carnes Rushin (dec'd). Clifford
Rushin, a Spanish-American War Veteran d. May 1911: Emily Roberta m. 2nd Frank
J. Dudley of Columbus, Ga. in 1929; J. Frank Rushin m Rosa Lucile Mehaffey in
1926; 2 ch. viz: Francis Lucile and Evyline Roberta Rushin. (7) Robert DeWitt m.
Alice Albertina LaFontaine, 2 ch.: Robert DeWitt Jr. and John Rhodes Carnes.
This family lives in Columbus, Ga.

History of the Carnes Name.    Variation, Carne, Cairn.
Racial Origin, Welch.    Source, a Locality. 

    Here is a case of a family name in which the tradition actually fits in with
and supports the probable source of origin as determined by investigation and
research in the field of language and social history.

    In the Cymrie division of the Celtic tongues, to which division the Welch
language belongs, "carne" or "cairn," as we find it most frequently in English
writings, meant a heap of stones or rock. The word carne has become associated
in the English mind with the orderly arrangement of great rocks to be found in
various part of Britain which are known to be remains of the old Druid temples
of pre-Christian days; and the ancient Britons were racially identified with the
Welsh rather than the Gaels of Ireland and Scotland.

    In one branch of the Carnes family is the addition that Shamus, son of King
Ithel of the ancient kingdom of Ghent (now Monmouthshire) was brought up at
Pencarne ("Pen" meaning headland). He adopted the surname of Carne from this
place, and his descendants have maintained its use as a family name. There is no
reason to doubt this explanation, as the family records do trace it back to
ancient times with little-interruption. (Copied from Public Ledger).

CARNES

    Thomas Peter (or Petters) Carnes, born in Bladensburg. Prince George County,
Maryland, removed to Georgia when quite a young man, where he became a prominent
citizen and a distinguished lawyer and judge. He was granted land by the State
of Georgia for services in the American Revolution.

   After the war he was one of the three members of Congress from Georgia,
1793-5; Judge of the Western Circuit from 1795-9. He held the office of trustee
of the University of Georgia, 1799-1807. He was again elected Judge, 1807-13.

    After the war he was one of the three members of Congress from Georgia, 1793-5.

    In 1806, with Thomas Flournoy and William Bennett he was appointed by the
Georgia Legislature to find the 35th parallel of N. Latitude and run the
dividing line between the States of Carolina and Georgia. Died 1822. Buried in
Milledgeville.

    The following is taken from Clark's Diet of American Biography; Thomas Peter
Carnes, Jurist, born in Md., 1762, died in Milledgeville, Ga., May 8, 1822.
Removed to Georgia where he attained high rank as a lawyer. He became
successively, Solicitor General, Attorney General, Judge of the Superior Court,
Member of Congress, 1793-5."

    He married Elizabeth Bostwick, daughter of Chesley Bostwick. One of his
sons, Dr. Robert Watkins Carnes, married Martha Laird Jones of Hancock Co., and
after living for a few years in Sparta removed to Muscogee Co. near Columbus,
where they reared a large family of sons and daughters. One of the sons, Mr.
John Howard Carnes, became an honored citizen of Chattahoochee County.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
By N. K. Rogers

Dedicated to

KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C.

and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers.

Copyright 1933

by N. K. ROGERS

PRINTED   BY
COLUMBUS  OFFICE  SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA.

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