Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Barnes, Richard Tilman 1928
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 08-17-1928, P. 1
RICHARD TILMAN BARNES

BRAVE SOLDIER AND GOOD CITIZEN DIED

   Richard Tilman Barnes departed this life August 7, 1928 at his home in 
Southampton County at the age of 87. He was a son of the late Jethro W. Barnes 
and Lydia Britt, his wife. He was born near Como, in Hertford County, N.C., 
June 5, 1841.

   He was still at school when North Carolina seceded, but he volunteered in 
April 1861, in the Hertford Light Infantry, 7th North Carolina Volunteers. 
After the capture of Fort Hatteras the reorganization of these troops 
occurred, and he became Orderly Sergeant of Company C, 17th North Carolina 
Troops. He was commissioned Ordnance Sergeant in September, 1864; was wounded 
in the last general battle of the war of Bentonville, N.C., and was patrolled 
near Greensboro, N.C., May 1, 1865.

   He was in the Army commanded by Lieutenant General J.E. Johnson, R.H. 
Hoke’s division, the brigade commanded successively by Generals James G. 
Martin, Pettigrew and W.W. Kirkland. The battles in which he participated 
included Bermuda Hundred and Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864; the defenses around 
Petersburg and Richmond in Virginia and Plymouth, Kinston, Wilmington and 
Bentonville in North Carolina.

  Mr. Barnes was charter member of the Urquhart-Gillette Camp of Confederate 
Veterans, and remained a member until his death, and his funeral was attended 
by L.L. Manry, Commander of the Urquhart-Gillette Camp, he being the only 
veteran who could be present at the funeral.

   In Southampton County February 26, 1873. Richard Tilman Barnes and Miss 
Devilla Edith Beale were united in marriage and have since lived in 
Southampton County near Sunbeam. He leaves to mourn their loss his wife, Mrs. 
Devilla Beale Barnes, daughter of the late John Evans Beale and Lydia W. 
(Bryant) Beale, and his six children: Mrs. Christie Barnes Saunders, one son, 
J.Garnett Barnes, Misses Emily, Marion and Norma Barnes and Mrs. E.R. 
Bonniville of Miami, Fla.

   He became a Christian when quite a young man and a member of Buckhorn 
Baptist Church, Como, N.C.  Soon after he was married he was made a deacon of 
the church and served in that capacity until he became too feeble to take an 
active part. He was a surveyor, but took more interest in farming and stock-
raising.

   Mr. Barnes was a man of unusually attractive personality, and possessed a 
wide circle of friends, both young and old. His undeniably warm heart, broad 
and transparently honest outlook on life, with a deep-rooted contempt for 
anything base or mean in conduct, which last characteristics his manly and 
chivalrous nature was incapable of comprehending – all these, with a deep, 
sincere and abiding regard for his friends, invariably won the hearts of those 
with whom he came in contact. In addition to these, a cheerful lightness of 
heart, an unquenchable optimism, an almost boyish gayety – sounded the keyhote 
of his life: an abiding contentment and joy, the outgrowth of a childlike 
trust in the Heavenly Father, upon whom he relied with an unquestioning and 
beautiful faith.

   He devotion to the cause of the Southern Confederacy was outstanding and 
undying, though carrying no taint of bitterness, of which his nature was 
incapable. His love for home, family and church mellowed and deepened with his 
advancing years, as did his abiding faith and joy. For in the last few days 
and hours of his life, seared as they were with almost constant and intense 
agony – he spoke often most happily and lovingly of the blessedness for which 
he longed, awaiting him on the other side; and even sang, over and over, his 
favorite hymns, other urging his children to unite their voices with his.

   The funeral from his home was attended by a crowd that filled rooms, 
porches and grounds. The casket, draped with the Confederate flag, was placed 
in the hall, where a simple service was conducted by his Pastor, Rev. J.L. 
Price. A duet, “The Lord is My Shepherd,” sung by J.W. and Mrs. J.T. Bryant, 
Mrs. Hugh Barrett accompanying at the piano, was followed by reading from 1 
Corinthians, 15, and St. John, 14, and a few appropriate remarks by the 
Pastor, relative to the life and character of Mr. Barnes, Rev. N.B. Foushee, a 
venerable Methodist minister, then spoke touchingly of the past thirty years 
of his life as Mr. Barnes near neighbor, and of the well-known influence of 
the latter’s life and character. The body was laid to rest in a shady, flower-
decked corner of the old family graveyard, some ten miles distant, at the 
beautiful home of his childhood, as seemed most fitting, where his father and 
mother lie sleeping. After the solemn words of committal, and the final 
prayer, and to the accompaniment of wind sighing through the magnolias, Mrs. 
And Mrs. Hugh Barrett, Mrs. J.T. Bryant and T.H. Barrett sang “Home of the 
Soul.”

    The body bearers were: J.B. and P.W. Majette, J.B. and C.E. Worrell, 
Rosser Bryant, Willie Prince, S.P. Winborne and G.C. Picot. The honorary 
pallbearers were: T.H. Barrett, Jas. R. Hart, V.K. Daughtrey, E.F. Drake, J.T. 
Bryant, John Railey, Jake Howell, Darius Howell, Jas. Railey, E.J. Railey, Dr. 
J.M. Bland and R.B. Bryant.


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