1st Cousin to Judge John Martin, Circuit Judge for the Coosawattee and Amohee Districts and Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation until 1837 when he emigrated to Oklahoma. He sold his Plantation in South Murray County to his 2nd Cousin and best friend Farish Carter which he renamed "Carter's Quarters". (US Army Corps of Engineers Special Report June 1995 John Martin's Home: Historical and Archaeological Investigations) Mary stayed with him after the death of Amos in 1846 where she is found on the 1850 census and died in 1857. Carter buried her beside Amos in the family cemetery there.
Document #1:
US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratories
USACERL Special Report 95/05 June 1995
John Martin's Home: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of Site 9Mu56, Murray County, Georgia by Elizabeth Arnett Fields and Steven D. Smit
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA296622.pdf
Document #2:
1840 Murray County Georgia
House 7 - Amos Barnett
House 8 - Tamer Barnett (widow of Sheriff James Carter Barnett and mother-n-law Mary A. Martin Barnett. Unknown why she is in her daughter-n-law's house and not with Amos. They could have been fuss'n at the time who knows? )
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1813247:8057?tid=&pid=&queryId=e0ca86554f9a7aa70bdf28cc0388fae3&_phsrc=bwT60&_phstart=successSource
Document #3:
1850 Census Murray County Ga
Mary A. Martin Barnett
Farish Carter
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/18833892:8054?tid=&pid=&queryId=cb2cecb964ceb9b8fedbc17a6dda07f3&_phsrc=bwT58&_phstart=successSource
1st Cousin to Judge John Martin, Circuit Judge for the Coosawattee and Amohee Districts and Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation until 1837 when he emigrated to Oklahoma. He sold his Plantation in South Murray County to his 2nd Cousin and best friend Farish Carter which he renamed "Carter's Quarters". (US Army Corps of Engineers Special Report June 1995 John Martin's Home: Historical and Archaeological Investigations) Mary stayed with him after the death of Amos in 1846 where she is found on the 1850 census and died in 1857. Carter buried her beside Amos in the family cemetery there.
Document #1:
US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratories
USACERL Special Report 95/05 June 1995
John Martin's Home: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of Site 9Mu56, Murray County, Georgia by Elizabeth Arnett Fields and Steven D. Smit
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA296622.pdf
Document #2:
1840 Murray County Georgia
House 7 - Amos Barnett
House 8 - Tamer Barnett (widow of Sheriff James Carter Barnett and mother-n-law Mary A. Martin Barnett. Unknown why she is in her daughter-n-law's house and not with Amos. They could have been fuss'n at the time who knows? )
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1813247:8057?tid=&pid=&queryId=e0ca86554f9a7aa70bdf28cc0388fae3&_phsrc=bwT60&_phstart=successSource
Document #3:
1850 Census Murray County Ga
Mary A. Martin Barnett
Farish Carter
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/18833892:8054?tid=&pid=&queryId=cb2cecb964ceb9b8fedbc17a6dda07f3&_phsrc=bwT58&_phstart=successSource
Gravesite Details
Unmarked
Family Members
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James Carter Barnett
1794–1835
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Ann Elizabeth "Eliza" Barnett Simmons
1795–1877
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Thomas "Tom" Barnett I
1796–1857
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CAP Joseph Martin Barnett I
1798–1840
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Nancy Adeline "Nannie" Barnett Harlan
1800–1900
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John Barnett
1802–1829
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Susannah Elizabeth "Susie" Barnett Bell
1802–1840
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Mary Rebecca "Polly" Barnett Carter
1804–1876
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William "Billy" Barnett
1808–1834
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David Marcus Barnett
1810–1836
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