Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . n (or Oleyine)Fay (or Fry), and she became the mother of Henry,Adelbert Forester, Emeline, Evelyn, Clariette, AliaVelorous (called in the record of his death A. De-forest), Warren Jonas and others. Henry Barnes was born in Hardwick, January21, 1844. He wasreared and educated in his nativetown, and as a young man was employed as an as-sistant upon various farms in Hardwick and Peter-sham. About the year 1870 he purchased the prop-erty in t
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . n (or Oleyine)Fay (or Fry), and she became the mother of Henry,Adelbert Forester, Emeline, Evelyn, Clariette, AliaVelorous (called in the record of his death A. De-forest), Warren Jonas and others. Henry Barnes was born in Hardwick, January21, 1844. He wasreared and educated in his nativetown, and as a young man was employed as an as-sistant upon various farms in Hardwick and Peter-sham. About the year 1870 he purchased the prop-erty in the last-named town, where he has ever sinceresided, consisting of a productive farm, togetherwith a substantial residence built in the colonialstyle of architecture, and located in close proximityto the village. Here he gives his principal atten-tion to dairy farming and the retail milk he acts with the Republican party. Heattends the Unitarian Church. In 1885 Mr. Barnes was united in marriage withMrs. Vernon S. Cook, nee Sprague, daughter ofOtis and Harriet E- (Cook) Sprague. Mr. andMrs. Barnes have had three children, namely: #/. ^,^^^.^^^^ WORCESTER COUNTY 283 Edith, bom September 30, 1S85, wile of Harry of Petersham; Harold, born March 7,1887, residing at home; and CHfton, born May i,1892, died in early childhood. JOSEPH E. RICKEY, of Petersham, Massachu-setts, was born at Barre, Worcester county, Massa-chusetts, January 2, 1833, son of Asel and Lucrctia(Upton) Rickey, and grandson of Robert Rickey,born in 1746. Asel Rickey, lived the greater part ofhis life at Petersham, to which place he moved in1836. He died there March 2S, 185S. He marriedLucrelia Upton, born February 24, 1805, died Marcli 18, 1885, in New Salem. The children born to themwere: l. Joseph E., see forward. 2. George, bornSeptember 24, 1834, married Oir-t) Hulda Batch-elder, by which union there were no children; hemarried (second) Jane Flint, by whom he hailGrace G., Walte
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