Andrew J. Barnett, a farmer of Greene Township, was born in Muskegon County, Ohio, October 5, 1884, a son of George and Mary (Boyer) Barnett, natives of the State of Pennsylvania, the former of Irish and the latter of German descent. The family consisted of thirteen children, all but one of whom lived to rear families. Their names in the order of their birth are as follows – Valentine, now Illinois; William died in Muskegon County in 1879; John lives in Bartholomew County, Indiana; George lives in Ross County, Ohio; Thomas J. lives in Missouri; Andrew J., our subject; Mrs. Catharine Wood lives in Morgan County, Ohio; Mrs. Barbara Maines lives in Iowa; Mrs. Susannah Barnett died in Illinois; Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens lives in Missouri; Mrs. Sidney Ann Graves lives in Stark County, Illinois; and one daughter died in childhood.
The parents died in Vinton County, Ohio, the father in 1872
and the mother several years earlier.
Andrew J. Barnett was reared in
Ohio, removing with his parents to Vinton County when fifteen years of age,
living there until 1865, when he moved to Ross County and from there in
October, 1880, came to Jay County.
He bought a farm on section 15, Greene Township, and from there moved to the farm where he now lives on the same section, which contains seventy-five acres of choice land with good improvements.
Mr. Barnett was married in Vinton County, Ohio, September 14, 1857 to Eliza Ankrom, a native of Vinton County, born September 11,1 838, a daughter of Richard and Tacy (Miller) Ankrom, both of German descent. Her father was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania July 7, 1815 and when sixteen years old went to Vinton County, Ohio, where he was married August 16, 1837 to Tacy Miller and both are now deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Barnett have had nine children, six of whom are
living – Richard Clinton, George M., Andrew J., Myrtie, Seymour, Tacy M.
Three died in infancy.
Biographical && Historical Record
of Jay County Lewis Publishing Company, 1887
Transcribed by Jim Cox