ROANE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BARNES, Edgar W.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
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October 1, 1999
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History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927
William H. Bishop, Esq.
p 443

BARNES:

Edgar W. Barnes was born in Harrison County, Western Virginia, October 3, 
1833, the son of John and Frances (Vincent) Barnes, Virginians by birth. 
Edgar W. Barnes, now an M. D. and a graduate of one of the Eastern scho~s of 
medicine and surgery, came to Roane County about the year 1856 or 1857, for 
it is observed that on May 28, 1857, he and Eleanor, daughter of Josiah and 
Elizabeth Hughes, were wedded. She was born in Marion County, Western 
Virginia, April 8, 1838. Two young people these were. He twenty-four and she 
nineteen. Dr. Edgar W. Barnes so far as we can learn was the first regular 
practitioner of medicine to locate in Harper District. He enlisted and served 
through the Civil War as a Confederate soldier.  In the year 1880, in an 
interview, he mentioned with some pride his farm on which be resided and from 
which he attended to the duties of his profession. He and Eleanor raised only 
the child; Leslie D., born January 1, 1862; Married M. Starcher June 11, 1883.


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