Ruth Irene Barnes

Ruth married Roy Winston Williamson on 13 Jan 1923 in Rocky Mount, NC. Roy was born on 19 Aug 1892 in Wayne Co., NC; died on 19 Mar 1968 in Nash County, NC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Roy Winston,Jr. Williamson was born on 31 Dec 1925 in Rocky Mount, NC.
2. Eleanor Grace Williamson was born on 14 Nov 1929 in Rocky Mount, NC.

John married Elinor Josephine Mildau about 1896. Elinor died in Dec 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harvey married Elizabeth Ann Betty Gardner. Elizabeth (daughter of James Lafaette Gardner and Elvira Cornwell) was born on 27 Nov 1847; died on 5 Feb 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Military Service: Civil War.

Notes:

From Clevelamd Gardner's notes: James Gardner and his wife Elvira Cornwell settled on the west side of First Broad River in Cleveland County, N.C. Their farm was about one mile south of Zion Baptist Church and on the farm later owned by Frank Cornwell and Charlie Cornwell. They lived here until the death of his young wife. She was buried on the crest of a hill a few hundred yards north of where they had lived. On a stone slab marking her grave is the inscription: ELVIRA GARDNER Who died July 2nd, 1854 Aged 32 years, 6 Months, 21 days Colonel Grigg and wife Carrie (James' sister) took in the two year old daughter Katherine upon her mother's death. Captain Ed Dixon of Fallston, N.C. at the age of 96 years spoke with P. Cleveland Gardner about James Gardner: He said that the age limit of military service in the Civil War was 45 years, and James Gardner was called into service in 1862 with the Senior Reserves. After the death of his wife he moved with his family to the old mill place of Andrew Beam situated on Buffalof Creek about two miles southeast of Fallston, later known as the Mike Baker old mill place. In speaking of James Gardner, Captain Ed Dixon says: " James Gardner ran Andrew Beam's mill about the year of 1857; I was teaching school at Carpenter's School House at that time, which stood near where the Julius Hoyle old home was situated. I taught school for a salary of $18 a school term of three months and boarded amoung the 'Scoolars' free of charge. I spent several nights at the home of James Gardner. His children, Rufus, McDuffie, and Kendall, and probably others, attended my school. It was a custom then to hold public debates at school houses at night. We held weekly debates at the Carpenter school house, and James Gardner attended our debates. He was a deep thinker, and one of our best debaters. James Gardner later moved down near Kings Mountain to the Hill Farm, on January 15, 1858."

James married Elvira Cornwell about 1835. Elvira (daughter of Micajah Cornwell and Lydia McEntire) was born on 23 Dec 1814 in Rutherford County, North Carolina; died on 2 Jul 1854 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Cemetery:
on the crest of a hill on her homeplace one mile south of Zion Baptist Church and on the farm later owned by Frank Cornwell and Charlie Cornwell.