Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Barnes, George Washington 1938
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 09-23-1938, P. 1
GEORGE WASHINGTON BARNES

LAST ACTIVE COUNTY CIVIL WAR VETERAN GEO. W. BARNES, DEAD

   George Washington Barnes, the last surviving member of Urquhart-Gillette 
Camp, United Confederate Veterans, and the last Confederate Veterans, and the 
last Confederate in Southampton County who saw active service in the armies of 
the Gray, passed quietly last Friday morning at the home of his son, J.B. 
Barnes, on North High Street. A large number of relatives and friends followed 
his casket, draped with the beloved battle flag of the old Confederacy, to its 
last resting place in Poplar Spring Cemetery Sunday afternoon, where scores of 
his comrades who followed Lee and Jackson and Johnston sleep as peacefully as 
he.

   Mr. Barnes was a native of Hertford County, N.C., in the Maney’s Neck 
community, the son of the late Henry and Mrs. Margaret Whitley Barnes. As a boy 
of 16, he enlisted in Company K, a Hertford County command of the 68th North 
Caroline Regiment, C.S.A., under Colonel Hinton of Whiteford’s Brigade, Hoke’s 
Division, in the army led by General Joseph E. Johnston. A gallant soldier, true 
to the South, he served faithfully until the surrender at Appomattox, and like 
so many others of his comrades walked the weary miles back to his home from that 
fated field. 

   It is a pleasure to say of him as the writer knew, respected and admired him, 
that he was a true Christian, a man of uncompromising honesty and integrity, as 
good and as patriotic an American as he was formerly loyal to the South. Until 
failing eyesight about two years ago prevented it, he was a constant reader and 
kept fully abreast of the times, watching with the keenly interested eye of the 
former soldier the troubled days of World War and the tense military situation 
as it has long existed in Europe.

   Mr. Barnes was at first a member of Buckhorn Baptist Church at Como, about 40 
years ago removing his membership to Newsoms Baptist Church where he held his 
membership until the end. He married Miss Sarah Williams of the Como community 
who died December 27, 1920 and since that time he had made his home here with 
Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Barnes. He is survived by three sons, J.H. Barnes of Boykins, 
G.D. Barnes of Severn, N.C. and J.B. Barnes of this town; by three daughters, 
Mrs. B.G. Ferguson and Mrs. I.J. Jones of Suffolk and Mrs. W.L. Beale of 
Portsmouth; 22 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, besides a host of 
friends.

   Funeral rites were conducted from the home Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock by 
his pastor, Rev. C.P. Cleveland of Newsoms Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. R.D. 
Stephenson of the local Baptist Church. Two of his favorite hymns, “The Home 
Over There,” and “Jesus Savior Pilot Me” were sung by Paul Nicholas and Mrs. 
Samuel B. Cutchins, with Mrs. Henry Duck accompanying.

   The active pallbearers were eight grandsons of Mr. Barnes; J.B., Jr., 
Carroll, Ralph, Wilson, Howard and Garland Barnes; George and Irvin Ferguson. 
Honorary bearers were selected from a number of friends of the family.

   Among relatives and friends from out of the county who attended Mr. Barnes’ 
funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Lankford, E.M. Rogers and W.J. Rogers of 
Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Chinn, Jack and Herbert Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Kirsch, 
of Portsmouth; W.E. King, N.T. Poarch and Mr. Warren of Suffolk; P.M. Fleetwood 
of Jackson, N.C.; Larry Pruden of Seaboard, N.C.; Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Watson, Mr. 
and Mrs. E.T. Britt, Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Barkley, Mr. and Mrs. E. Howell, A.M. 
Fleetwood, J.R. Taylor, Misses Margaret Watson, Jessie May and Della Barkley and 
Margaret Morgan, W.J. Barkley, Dudley Barnes, R.P. Watson, H.C. Rogers, Sam 
Britt, Jim Griffin, W.S. Clark and Mrs. R.I. Woodard of Severn, N.C., besides 
many friends from Boykins, Newsoms and Capron.


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