FOURTH GENERATION

123. Joseph BARNETT was born on 20 Jul 1886 in Barnett Ridge, Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio. He died on 14 Aug 1986 in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia at the Camden Clark Hospital. He was buried on 18 Aug 1986 in Barnett Ridge, Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio in the Barnett Ridge Cemetery. He belonged to the Barnett Ridge Wesleyan Church where he was treasurer.. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Elk Valley Lodge 54 of Hinton, West Virginia. Joseph went to work when he was 15, logging above Lowell. His grandfather {James Stevens} and uncle, John Stevens, owned a portable mill. To obtain a high school education he lived with grandfather Stevens near Camp Hervida, logging with a yoke of oxen and walking to school at Waterford a distance of 3.5 miles.

He graduated from the commercial college in Marietta and went to Weston, West Virginia, as a bookkeeper and then to Charleston where he kept books for the Knights of Pythias for three years.

Joseph returned to Barnett Ridge and began hauling coal into the quarries and stone out for $3 a day, team and man. Compared to $1.25 a day for the men working in the quarries, this looked pretty good. He recalled hauling a 5-ton stone from the quarry near McAvan to the railroad station. This stone was about 6 feet in diameter and 3 feet thick, and was the largest one he hauled. There weren't many stones quarried out of the McAvan quarry but they were large. The McAvan quarry was opened after the Tretchell quarry in Tunnel. There is no lease recorded for this quarry, nor is there one for the short-lived quarry on the Ransom place at the corner of Barlow Township Road 267 and County Road 27. Dick Ransom leased the land to the Cleveland Stone Company, and Joseph Barnett hauled stones from there up over the ridge to Henry's Crossing. He carries to his grave a scar where a horse kicked him on a trip out of that quarry.

He was married to Lucy Jane MALE (daughter of Reverend Henry MALE and Mary L. SELLERS) on 10 Jul 1909 in Marietta, Marietta Township, Washington County, Ohio. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Male of Vincent celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary Saturday, December 2, 1933. The weather was ideal for the occasion and many participated in the affair. At noon a delicious dinner was enjoyed. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Miller and children; Esta, Clayton and Elanor; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barnett and children: Virgil, Rachel, Ruth and Naomi; Junior Patterson, Melma Miller, Pearl Cowen, Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Male, Maxine Barnett, Daniel Male, Mr. and Mrs. John Hill, Lenora Barnett, Mary Barnett, Myrtle Croston, Willard Corston, Lucille Striblin, Fidella Male and Kathleen Allender. Lucy Jane MALE was born on 12 May 1886 in Barnett Ridge, Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio. She died on 8 Dec 1969 in Washington County, Ohio. She was buried on 10 Dec 1969 in Barnett Ridge, Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio in the Barnett Ridge Cemetery. Joseph BARNETT and Lucy Jane MALE had the following children:

+389 i. Cecil Henderson BARNETT.
390 ii. Delbert A. BARNETT was born on 9 Apr 1911 in Washington County, Ohio. He died on 25 Jul 1911 in Washington County, Ohio. He was buried in Barnett Ridge, Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio in the Barnett Ridge Cemetery.
+391 iii. Virgil BARNETT.
+392 iv. Rachel Veldine BARNETT.
+393 v. Ruth Geraldine BARNETT.
+394 vi. Naomi Regina BARNETT.