Fitch Reed Barnard

1852 - 1911  (59 years)

• Name	Fitch Reed Barnard
  Birth	01 Jan 1852	Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Apr 1911	Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA
  Burial	Union Cemetery, Livonia, Livingston Co., New York, USA
  Notes	Register of Marriage Services Officiated by Rev. S. Mills Day Pastor of the Congregational Church of Honeoye In Livonia, NY, Jan. 29, 1879, Fitch R. Barnard, Richmond, NY to Sarah J. Jerome, Livonia . ******************************** Ontario County Journal Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. April 14, 1911 Honeoye, N. Y. - Fitch R. Barnard, a prominent farmer of Richmond, entered the higher life, after a short illness, on April 5, in his 59th year. His death was due to a stroke of apoplexy which prostrated him the week before. Mr. Barnard was the son of Peter and Fannie Reed Barnard and was born at the old homestead where his brother now lives. He was graduated from the Genesee Wesleyan seminary and in 1879 was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Jerome, of Livonia, who with two children, Mrs. F. W. Herman of Renssalaer and Solon H. Barnard, are left to carry on the work he has laid down. There are also two grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. R. C. Beach, and one brother, P. Pitts Barnard, left to mourn his loss. The funeral was held at the house Saturday and the burial was in Livonia. Mr. Barnard had the confidence of all who knew him and his death is a great loss to the community. ******************************** Fitch Reed Barnard, Richmond, was born January 1, 1852. His father, Captain Peter Pitts Barnard, was born in Livonia in 1812, and died in 1876. For the last forty years of his life he held two hundred acres of land in this town and seventy adjoining in Livonia. The stone house in which he lived, now occupied by his son and namesake, was built by him in 1850. His wife was Fanny, daughter of John F. Reed, and their five children were: Ellen A., wife of M. H. Ray; Elizabeth M., wife of J. P. Ray; Franc A., wife of R. C. Beach; Fitch R. and Peter Pitts. He married, second, Abby Jane Olney (Gray), who survives him. She resides in Rochester. Chauncey, father of Peter Pitts Barnard, was a native of Connecticut, and married Nancy, daughter of Captain Peter Pitts, of Richmond, and came to Livonia, where he lived and died. His father was Samuel, of Litchfield county, Conn. Fitch R. was married in 1879 to Sarah J. Jerome, daughter of Myron D. Jerome, of Livonia, and they have two children: Fannie E., born December 13, 1881, and Solon H., born December 10, 1887. Mr. Barnard is a Republican. Mrs. Barnard's father was born in this town, where Isaac B. Green now lives, and his father, John Jerome, married Sarah Aiken, whose family was among the first to settle at Allen's Hill. P. Pitts Barnard was born November 13, 1859, and married, October 21, 1885, Clara Jerome, daughter of Samuel Jerome, of Livonia, and their children are: Glenn H., born January 21, 1889, and P. Ray, born November 28, 1891. History of Ontario County compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; Published 1893; ********************************
  Person ID	I32120	OurNorthernRoots
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Peter Pitts Barnard,   b. 20 Jan 1812, Livonia, Livingston Co., New York, USA d. 5 Oct 1876, Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Fanny Reed,   b. 7 May 1818, Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA d. 5 Jun 1871, Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	1837
  Family ID	F16151	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Jane Jerome,   b. 09 Oct 1856   d. 1939, Livonia, Livingston Co., New York, USA (Age 82 years)
  Children	1. Fanny Barnard,   b. 13 Dec 1881, Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA + 2. Solon Howard Barnard,   b. 10 Dec 1887, Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA d. 13 Feb 1942, Rochester, Monroe Co., New York, USA (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F11836	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 01 Jan 1852 - Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA Death - 5 Apr 1911 - Richmond, Ontario Co., New York, USA Burial - - Union Cemetery, Livonia, Livingston Co., New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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