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Mary <I>King</I> Barnes

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Mary King Barnes

Birth
Somerset County, Maryland, USA
Death
25 Oct 1739 (aged 24–25)
Somerset County, Maryland, USA
Burial
Westover, Somerset County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of the King family of Beverly on King's Creek.

This ancient cemetery is located on private property sitting close to King's Creek and is accessible by either Revell's Neck Rd or Stewart Neck Rd. It is located adjacent to the Widdowson farm.

It is very near the Maryland Eastern Correctional Institution.

From Ancestry.com:

Colonel Abraham Barnes was born about 1715 in either Richmond County or Westmoreland County, Virginia. According to a deed filed in Westmoreland Co., VA in 1744, he was the "son and heir of Thomas Barnes, deceased". He married first, about 1735, Mary King, daughter of Robert and Priscilla (Covington) King of "Kingsland", Somerset County, Maryland. Mary (King) Barnes died October 25, 1739 and is buried at "Kingsland". Her tombstone reads "Mary, wife of Abraham Barnes, Merchant, died 25th October, 1739 in the 25th year of her age." There was one child born to this marriage, Mary King Barnes (1737-1771). Mary King Barnes married Thomson Mason (1732-1785), son of George Mason and his wife, Ann Thomson of Stafford County, Virginia. .
Daughter of the King family of Beverly on King's Creek.

This ancient cemetery is located on private property sitting close to King's Creek and is accessible by either Revell's Neck Rd or Stewart Neck Rd. It is located adjacent to the Widdowson farm.

It is very near the Maryland Eastern Correctional Institution.

From Ancestry.com:

Colonel Abraham Barnes was born about 1715 in either Richmond County or Westmoreland County, Virginia. According to a deed filed in Westmoreland Co., VA in 1744, he was the "son and heir of Thomas Barnes, deceased". He married first, about 1735, Mary King, daughter of Robert and Priscilla (Covington) King of "Kingsland", Somerset County, Maryland. Mary (King) Barnes died October 25, 1739 and is buried at "Kingsland". Her tombstone reads "Mary, wife of Abraham Barnes, Merchant, died 25th October, 1739 in the 25th year of her age." There was one child born to this marriage, Mary King Barnes (1737-1771). Mary King Barnes married Thomson Mason (1732-1785), son of George Mason and his wife, Ann Thomson of Stafford County, Virginia. .

Inscription

Here _________ the remains of

MARY

The wife of Abraham Barnes, Mercht

The sweetnefs of whose Temper

Was only equaled

BY

Her good __________ & Discretion

_______ _________ __________

In which __________ placed her

_______ ________ ________

Friend, Loving Wife,

A good Christian

VIRT___

That mig___

Had not yet supreme (?)

Determined in otherwise

Long have _________

________ her Person

________ the ________ _______

Veneration__________

All _________ __________ Her

Life ye 25th day of October

1739 in the 25th year of her Age.


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