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Clifton. One of the sisters, Earle (later Mrs.
W.T. Lofland), helped him set type by hand
when she was not attending Sam Houston
State University in Huntsville.
Mrs. Baldridge, youngest child and only
daughter of the four children of William
Lawrence Payne and Ellen Ship Payne, was
born 1883, on a ranch several miles from
Adamsville in Hamilotn County. She attend-
ed the public schools in Lometa and a private
school at Lampasas.
When she was eighteen years of age, Mrs.
Baldridge's father, who then ranched near
and lived in Junction, invested in variety
stores at Clifton and Meridian. She received
permission from her father to spend a
summer working in those stores and she liked
Bosque County folks so well that she stayed
longer. Even after her father disposed of his
store interests, she remained and was em-
ployed in other Clifton mercantile establish-
ments.
The Baldridges were married in Junction
in April, 1905. They were the parents of two
children: a son, Robert Lee Baldridge, Jr.,
and a daughter, Dorothy Ellen (Mrs. J.C.
Kincheloe), both of Clifton.
Mrs. Kincheloe and her husband presently
own and reside in what still is known by older
Clifton residents as the Baldridge home in
the Edgewood Addition. The Baldridges and
their children moved into that house, which
was built a year or so earlier by Mr. and Mrs.
Neal G. Grimland, Sr. in May, 1919. They
made one addition to the home prior to their
moving and three others during later years.
During the Baldridge family's 65-year
ownership of The Clifton Record the newspa-
per missed only one week of publication.
That week followed the fire in 1907 that
destroyed it along with all the other buildings
in the downtown block between West 5th and
West 3rd Streets. It was after that fire that
the newspaper was moved across the street
to its present location.
Only The Clifton Record's subscription list
and business ledgers were saved during the
conflagration. Following the fire Mr. Bal-
dridge left on the train, which stopped in
Clifton at that time around midnight, to go
to Dallas to purchase all new plant machin-
ery. However, the new machinery could not
be installed soon enough to prevent the
newspaper's missing one week of publication.
by Mrs. J.C. Kincheloe
BARNES, ROBERT SAMUEL
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Robert Samuel Barnes was born in Tennes-
see, in 1815. He came to Texas in the fall of
1835 with two older cousins, Lee R. and
Hiram E. Davis. They came by boat to
Matagorda and enlisted in the Texas army.
They were in San Antonio in December at the
Battle of Bexar when Colonel Ben Milam was
killed. From there they went to Milam
County where some of their relatives had
settled.
In the latter part of 1836, a Ranger
Company was formed in Milam County
under the command of Captain T.H. Barron.
In March, 1837, Robert S. Barnes enlisted for
a period of twelve months. After serving his
time, he settled near Little River in Milam
County.t ,
Robert Samuel Barnes.
In May of 1845, he accompanied George B.
Erath to Waco Village to assist in surveying
some lots. Some fourteen months later,
Barnes enlisted for a period of six months in
S.P. Ross' Mounted Volunteers. He was
discharged in 1846 at Bushy Creek. The
company was mustered out of service by
General Wool. In Austin, 1847, B.S. Barnes
enlisted in S.P. Ross' Company for a period
of twelve months. He served the full term and
was discharged in 1848 at Bosque Station.
From there he went on detached service to
the U.S. Draggons at Fort Graham as a guide.
R.S. Barnes took up a claim in Bosque
Territory on Steele Creek in 1852. He
married Elizabeth Oakes Barton, widow of
Albert Barton, in 1852 at Fort Graham, and
Elizabeth moved from her place near Fort
Graham to the cabin of Barnes.
When Bosque County was created from
McLennan County territory by an act of the
state legislature in February, 1854, Barnes
was active in the organization of the new
county. At the first election held in Bosque
County on August 7, 1854, R.S. Barnes
presided at the ballot box located at the
junction of Steele Creek and the Brazos River
where five qualified voters cast their ballots.
Barnes was elected a county commissioner.
During the Civil War, R.S. Barnes enlisted
in the Tenth Texas Regiment in May of 1862,
and went to Camp Nelson, Arkansas. There
he was wounded; and after his discharge in
November of 1862, he returned to Bosque
County.
He joined up with the local Texas Militia
in early 1864 with the rank of Captain. It was
just less than a year later that Captain R.S.
Barnes was killed in the Dove Creek Indian
Battle near Mertzon, Irion County. The
bodies of the men killed in this battle were
buried at the site. Robert S. Barnes spent
most of his life of fifty-five years serving his
country, state, and county.
by Albert S. BarnesF60
Prentice Hall Barnett, born 1878 at the old
family farm on Hog Creek, married in 1901,
Nellie Lane, born 1884, daughter of Radford
and Naomi (McCuistion) Lane. Prentice
delivered mail for a few years, before return-
ing to farming. In 1916, the family moved to
Post, Texas, to try farming in that west Texas
community. About two years later, discoura-
ged by drought conditions there, the family
moved back to the Valley Mills area in a
mule-drawn covered wagon - a trip of eleven
days. Prentice bought a truck and hauling
business, but after a few years returned to the
farm business, taking over his father's farm,
where he remained the rest of his life.
Prentice and his family were active members
of the Presbyterian Church in Valley Mills.
Prentice and Nellie were the parents of nine
children: William Curtis, born 1902, Mary
Ethel, born 1907, Lela, born 1910, Lane Odle,
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Elizabeth Oakes was born in Tennessee in
1825. She was the first child of Charles H. and
Susan Neal Oakes. Elizabeth came to Texas
with her parents in 1836, and they settled in
what is now Falls County near Marlin.
In 1842 or 1843 she married Albert Barton.
They had two children: Josh,born in
1844,and Tea,born in 1847.
The Bartons moved to a farm on the west
side of the Brazos across from Fort Graham
in 1850. Albert also operated a ferry on the
river on the Fort Graham-Fort Gates road. It
was in June of 1850 that Albert Barton was
drowned in the Brazos when his ferry capsiz-
ed. His body was never recovered.
Elizabeth continued to live on the farm and
sold her surplus corn to Fort Graham for feed.
In 1852 she married Samuel Barnes who had
settled in the area on Steele Creek. To them
were born eight children: Andrew, Samuel,
William, Jeff, Ann, Mollie, Sallie, and Rob-
ert. The youngest child, Robert, was born
after his father's death in 1865. Elizabeth also
raised a granddaughter, Roberta, daughter of
Tea. Tea died in 1880 leaving the infant.
In the 1860 census, Samuel Barnes was
listed as a stock raiser, but some farming had
to be done also. Elizabeth had to manage the
place and keep things in order. She continued
to live in the Barnes cabin after Barnes was
killed in the Battle of Dove Creek.
Elizabeth was granted a pension in 1887
and had a new house built in 1888. A stone
in one of the chimneys bore that date. The
railroad came through her property; that
probably helped more than the pension. She
now had a way to travel to Waco and other
places. Elizabeth visited her daughter, Mol-
lie, at Ozona in the 1890's. While there she
met a man who had been in the Dove Creek
Battle with Captain Barnes.
Some family members lived with Elizabeth
Barnes during her later years. She died in
1899 and is buried at Kopperl. Although
neither of her husbands are buried there, all
six of Elizabeth's sons are buried in the
Kopperl Cemetery.
by Albert B. Barnes
BARNETT,PRENTICE HALL
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