Gideon "Uncle Giddy" Barnes

He was in the 3rd. Regiment (Wimberleys) GA. Militia War of 1812

Fought in the Indian Wars.

He and Sarah C. Raiford Barnes are founders of the city of Barnesville Ga. Pike Co.

Note added 1/1/2009

Gideon Barnes, the founder of Barnesville, initially settled in Jones Co., GA where he married Miss Sarah Crawford Raiford. In 1826 he moved to Pike County and built a home at the intersection of two Indian trails. What he began as a trading business, grew into a stage coach line to Columus, a tavern and, eventually, a hotel. Meanwhile a village grew up around his property and began to be called Barnesville.

Note added 1/4/2009

Gideon Barnes was a PVT in the War of 1812 and is also known as the founder of Barnesville, Ga. He acquired Barnesville by trading one Indian pony for it, and set up a Tavern, Trading post and Inn. It was set up along the stage coach line coming from the trains from Macon. From there it grew into the town it is today.

He married Sarah Crawford Raiford on April 2, 1823. Together they bore 5 children: Millicent W. Barnes, Augustus H. Barnes, Fredrick N. Barnes, Maria Lousia Barnes and Sarah Virginia Barnes. His wife, Sarah died in 1861 and he remarried Huldah Ann Aldridge in 1862.

Barnes, Gideon, Biographies of Lamar County Georgia, Genalogy Trails

Barnesville, Historical Gazetteer of the United States by Paul T. Hellmann (2006)