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MRS. E. W. BARNES was born in Washington County, Vt.. in 1809, daughter of Enos and Lavina Miner. She was marned
in 1829 to Joseph A. Barnes, Wartsfield. Vt. They came to Cook County in 1833, and located for the first winter
in Chicago. They bought a lot and built a house on Kinzie Street. near Canal, for which they paid $50, and sold
it twenty three years later for $9,000. In the spring of 1834 they located in Elk Grove, on a farm containing 400
acres. Mrs. Barnes was the first white woman in Elk Grove Township. Mr. Barnes died in 1881, at the age of seventy
six years. Mrs. Barnes still lives on the old homestead where she has lived for fifty years. She has had three
children, one now living. Mary died at the age of six years, Adaline Roziene, of Charles City, Iowa, and Amelia
Rassel. deceased, at the age of thirty eight years. She is a member of thc Congregational Church. They started
with teams from Montpelier. Vt., on the 13th day of August, 1833, the party consisting of eleven persons, Dr. Miner
and wife, Mrs. Lavina Wilder, Mrs. Barnes and six children from one to twelve years of age. They arrived in Chicago
the 28th day of September. Mr. Barnes preceded his fanuly about six months, he, in company with Eli Williams and
family, arriving in Chicago in April.
FROM:
History of Cook County, Illinois
From the earliest period to the present time.
BY: A. T. Andreas
A. T. Andreas, Publisher
Chicago 1884.
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