The daughter of John and Clarissa Jane Sockwell Owens, Alice is believed to have been named for the riverboat, Alice Gray, which regularly put into the port of Jefferson, Texas, and brought her father to Jefferson after the Civil War.
Alice married William Oliver Barnes, the son of Benedict Barnes, born at Avaton, in Harrison County, Texas.
(Avaton was on Little Cypress Bayou nine miles from Longview and twenty miles west of Marshall in western Harrison County. It had a post office from 1884 to 1902. In 1896 the community had a cotton gin and gristmill, a district school, and Methodist and Baptist congregations. Avaton was gone by the 1940s.)
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The daughter of John and Clarissa Jane Sockwell Owens, Alice is believed to have been named for the riverboat, Alice Gray, which regularly put into the port of Jefferson, Texas, and brought her father to Jefferson after the Civil War.
Alice married William Oliver Barnes, the son of Benedict Barnes, born at Avaton, in Harrison County, Texas.
(Avaton was on Little Cypress Bayou nine miles from Longview and twenty miles west of Marshall in western Harrison County. It had a post office from 1884 to 1902. In 1896 the community had a cotton gin and gristmill, a district school, and Methodist and Baptist congregations. Avaton was gone by the 1940s.)
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Family Members
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Bessie Jane Barnes Pinckard
1887–1965
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Eddie Lee Barnes
1888–1950
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John Orby Barnes
1891–1906
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Corp William Roy Barnes
1894–1984
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Rufus Guy Barnes
1897–1920
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Ruth Aline Barnes Mings
1899–1981
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Willie Kate Barnes
1902–1902
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Julian Paul Barnes
1904–1985
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Clarence Whaley Barnes
1907–1989
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Norman Earl Barnes
1910–1945
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Raymond Arden Barnes
1912–1993
