“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


ARIAL BARNES, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Hebron; born in Otsego Co., N. 
Y., Feb. 3, 1793; his early life was spent in his native State; at 18, he 
removed to Rockland Co., N. Y., where he married Miss Sarah Johnson 
in 1814, who died Sept. 8, 1868, leaving eight children - Hester A., 
Mary, James, Arminda, Hiram, Arial and William T.  Mr. Barnes lived 
in Cayuga Co., N. Y., twenty-five years as a farmer, and came to 
Jefferson Co., Wis., in 1855, locating on the farm he now owns of sixty-
five acres, which he has improved and on which he now lives with his 
daughter Mary, the widow of Alexander Carman, who died Aug. 3, 
1877, leaving four children - Antoinette, Jay, Eleanor and Charles.  Mr. 
Barnes is a stanch Democrat; he united with the M. E. church at the age 
of 19, of  which he has since been an earnest and active member.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)