Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Barnes, George Washington 1938
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VIRGINIAN PILOT – 09-17-1938, P. 7
GEORGE WASHINGTON BARNES

  Franklin, Sept. 16 – George Washington Barnes, 92, a Confederate veteran 
and member of Beaver Dam Chapter, Confederate Veterans, and Franklin’s 
oldest citizen, died at the home of his son, J.B. Barnes, on High Street, 
this morning after a short illness. He was the son of Henry and Margaret 
Whitley Barnes, of Hertford County, North Carolina. At the age of 16, he 
enlisted in Company K, a Hertford County outfit of the sixty-eighth North 
Carolina Regiment, organized at Murfreesboro in July, 1863, under Colonial 
Hinton of Whitford’s Brigade, Hoke’s Division in the armies led by Gen 
Joseph E. Johnston. Mr. Barnes was a life member of Newsoms Baptist Church. 
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. B.G. Ferguson and Mrs. I.J. Jones, 
of Suffolk, and Mrs. W.L. Beale, of Portsmouth; three sons, J.H. Barnes, of 
Boykins; G.D. Barnes, of Severn, N.C., and J.B. Barnes, of Franklin; 22 
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be 
conducted Sunday afternoon a 3 o’clock at the home of J.B. Barnes by the 
Rev. R.D. Stephenson and the Rev. C.P. Cleveland. Burial will be in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery.


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