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Sallie B. <I>Howard</I> Barnes

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Sallie B. Howard Barnes

Birth
Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, USA
Death
26 Feb 1980 (aged 79)
Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Breathitt County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Written by Cris Brown.

Sallie B. Howard Barnes was reared on the farm where she is buried in the Leander Howard family graveyard at Noctor, Breathitt County, KY. Many of her brothers and sisters are buried in the same family plot.

She married John Sherman Barnes, son of Orlando and Lula Young Barnes and the marriage produced eleven children. Sallie Barnes was a resident of South Jackson for much of her married life and early widowhood. She never remarried. She lived in what was the former Haddix Hotel in South Jackson, which she bought as she made money renovating and flipping propertie sin Breathitt County. She ran a boarding house as the area was served by a railroad depot and the courthouse was busy with cases.

As a young girl she worked in the Robinson Lumber Company, Quicksand,KY as a wood grader and also rode a horse around to homes during the Spanish Flu epidemic to check on families, working with doctors at the time. She was a great story teller and her daughter, Faye, conducted a recorded interview with her in 1976.

Sallie was the daughter of Leander Howard [s/o George Howard and Elizabeth Barnett] and Louisa Elizabeth "Eliza" Mann Howard [d/o John Mann and Lucinda Craft].
Written by Cris Brown.

Sallie B. Howard Barnes was reared on the farm where she is buried in the Leander Howard family graveyard at Noctor, Breathitt County, KY. Many of her brothers and sisters are buried in the same family plot.

She married John Sherman Barnes, son of Orlando and Lula Young Barnes and the marriage produced eleven children. Sallie Barnes was a resident of South Jackson for much of her married life and early widowhood. She never remarried. She lived in what was the former Haddix Hotel in South Jackson, which she bought as she made money renovating and flipping propertie sin Breathitt County. She ran a boarding house as the area was served by a railroad depot and the courthouse was busy with cases.

As a young girl she worked in the Robinson Lumber Company, Quicksand,KY as a wood grader and also rode a horse around to homes during the Spanish Flu epidemic to check on families, working with doctors at the time. She was a great story teller and her daughter, Faye, conducted a recorded interview with her in 1976.

Sallie was the daughter of Leander Howard [s/o George Howard and Elizabeth Barnett] and Louisa Elizabeth "Eliza" Mann Howard [d/o John Mann and Lucinda Craft].

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