Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of WILLIAM S. BARNETT 

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WILLIAM S. BARNETT represents another of Georgia's pioneer families, and 
is the grandson of a revolutionary soldier whose name he bears. That 
William Barnett was a Virginian and gave five years of faithful service 
to his country in that heroic struggle. At the end of this strife as he 
and a friend were on their way home, being in need of food and without 
any means of obtaining it, having no money, when they could no longer 
endure their hunger they chanced to see a calf, which they seized and 
killed, and almost before it had ceased kicking they had skinned a 
portion of it and were beginning to make a meal of it. Shortly after the 
revolution Mr. Barnett brought his wife, Mary Hewey, to Georgia, and here 
in Greene county in 1784 his son John was born and grew to manhood. He 
served in the war of 1812 and received a land warrant, and in 1827 he 
left his boyhood's home in Greene county and moved his family of Isaac T. 
and Penelope (Ousley) Moreland; the father, a native of Virginia, born in 
1784, came to Georgia at a very early day, where, in Jones county, in 
1834, his daughter Penelope was born. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett are faithful 
members of the Methodist church. Their only child, Ida, is the wife of 
Lee W. Bohannan. 

Late in the war, in 1864, Mr. Barnett joined the regiment known as Joe 
Brown's state troops, often referred to as "Joe Brown's pets." After the 
war he returned to his home in Coweta county, and has since remained upon 
the old farm. He began life in moderate circumstances, but has been 
greatly prospered, has been able to surround himself with an ample supply 
of the good things of life and to win the esteem of all who know him. He 
is a Mason, and one of the leading men of the county.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.