Youngest of 11 children to John Perry Barnett and Elizabeth Self. He was born near Millersburg, Nicholas County, Kentucky on 24 Jul 1809. In 1822, his family moved to one mile north of Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana. He was twice married; first to Mary Lympus, daughter of Enoch Lympus, on 9 Apr 1829. He married Sophronia Riggs (1817-1911) on 3 May 1840.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 22, 1885, Volume XXV, Number 47, page 3 column 1

"Ambrose Barnett died at his home in Nineveh township, on Wednesday, of catarrh, at the age of seventy six years. He was one of the oldest citizens of the county having lived within its borders since a small boy. His remains were interred in the family burying ground near his home yesterday afternoon."

[Submitted by Mark McCrady & Cathea Curry]


Franklin Jeffersonian, Thursday, May 28, 1885, Volume 41, Number 22, page 2, column 2

Obituary

Ambrose D. Barnett, the subject of this sketch, was born in Kentucky on the 24th day of July 1809, and resided there until October 1822, when in company with his father’s family he removed to the wilds of Johnson county Indiana settling near Edinburg; in the forks of Blue River and Sugar Creek, and has lived in the county, excepting a few years absence in the northern part of the state, up to the day of his death, May 20, 1885. The deceased was married twice; children of both marriages and his widow still survive him. He was a man of more than ordinary educational and business attainments. His opportunities for attending school, like all the pioneers of the county, were very scant, but by self-application he became proficient in all the necessary requirements of a business life. Coming from a long lived family he bid fair to have lived fifteen or twenty years longer had it not been for the local trouble, Catarrh of the head, poisoning the life current. The deceased was the youngest and last surviving child of John D. Barnett, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and who was a minister of the Baptist church at the time of his death.

The subject of our sketch was only sick about one week, though he had been in failing health for some weeks before his death. From the day of his first serious ____ he felt that the time was at hand for his departure. He said the future was clear to him and he did not fear to enter on the long journey into the shadows. He talked of his religious faith, asked to have those present sing to him, which they did, and sang some himself. He said his tears had all dried up and he could not weep. He died without a struggle in the presence of his bereaved wife and children. He lived a pure life, free from taints of vice, and God gave him a peaceful hour in which to die.

[Submitted by Mark McCrady & Cathea Curry]