John Barnes

Birth 5 Apr 1790 Cato, Cayuga County, New York, USA Death 12 Mar 1863 (aged 72) Ingham County, Michigan, USA Burial Greenwood Cemetery Aurelius, Ingham County, Michigan, USA Memorial ID 28846105 · View Source He was the son of John C. and Joanna (Mallory) Barnes and husband of Anna Abbott Barnes

Pioneer History of Ingham County-Aurelius Township and it's History writes that John Barnes, called Deacon Barnes, was the first settler in Aurelius Township coming from the State of New York in 1836 and his family came one year later. They had eleven children and nine of them taught school.