SECOND GENERATION

5. Elizabeth BARNETT was born in 1832 in the Common Wealth of Virginia. She immigrated on 27 Oct 1845 to Washington County, Ohio. She reached Parkersburg, Virginia on the morning of the 27th of October, 1845. Before crossing the river to Ohio, she and her father, brothers and sisters again had to show their " free papers" and have their wagons searched.

She died in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio. The record here was originally created in response to a 1793 Virginia law which required all free people of color to register with the town or county clerk, and get a freedom certificate to carry with them at all times as ready proof of their free status. The following is the wording of Liz's.

"State of Ohio No. 222 Elizabeth Barnett's Certificate of Freedom, Virginia, Augusta County Court Clerks Office to Wit: Registered in this office by virtue of an order of the County Court of Augusta, entered on the 25th day of August 1845.

Elizabeth Barnett aged about thirteen years (born circa 1832) bright mulatto a wen on the back of each hand immediately below the wrist, five feet 2 3/4 inches high, and born free.

In testimony whereof I, Jefferson Kinney, Clerk of the County Court aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Stauton this 10th day of October 1845, and in the 70th year of the Commonwealth. Jefferson Kinney, Clerk Attest J. Smith, a Justice of the Peace."

She was married to William J. "Preacher Bill" NORRIS (son of Samuel "Fiddler" NORRIS and Phebe VAN HORN) on 5 May 1853 in Washington County, Ohio. William J. "Preacher Bill" NORRIS was born in 1821 in the Common Wealth of Virginia. Elizabeth BARNETT and William J. "Preacher Bill" NORRIS had the following children:

+33 i. Eliza NORRIS.