Polk County, Missouri Biographies - J. B.	BARNETT, Judge
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri 1889, published by Goodspeed, page 624
Polk County Biography Section

    Judge J. B. Barnett, cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants'
Bank at Humansville, Mo., was born on Blue Grass soil, near Bowling
Green, in Warren County, Ky., on the 28th of February, 1843, and 
there grew to manhood.  In 1861 he came to Missouri, and located
on Twenty-five Mile Prairie, in Polk County, but the same year 
joined the Home Guards of Missouri, serving about four months, 
until the battle of Wilson's Creek, after which he enlisted in 
Company C, Eighth Missouri State Militia, and was in active 
service until the close of the war, the most of the time being on
detached duty at Springfield, Mo. After peace had been declared 
he returned to his home and was married to Miss Susan Tillony, 
and, after spending about two months in Kentucky, he returned to
Missouri, and farmed in Polk County until 1870, when he came to
Humansville, and was a successful merchant until 1882.  In the 
meantime he had become interested in the banking business, and 
formed a partnership with O. W. Fisher, with whom he has since
been connected.  Mr. Barnett has been in public life a great
deal, and from 1868 to 1870 served as justice of the peace, and
from 1870 to 1874 was justice of the county court.  He is a 
prominent member of the Southwest Missouri Emigration Society, of
which he is third vice-president, and is one of its directors
from Polk County.  He is a member of the G.A.R., a Chapter Mason, 
and he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.  To their
union three sons and five daughters were born: Emma, wife of 
D. A. Murphy; Alice, wife of T. M. Callahan, of Washington; 
Hattie, wife of C. H. Ramsey; Carrie, a student of Baird College,
Clinton, Mo.; Jennie, Willie, Harry and Charles.  Judge Barnett's
parents, Elisha and Emeline (Skaggs) Barnett, were born in Kentucky.


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