Barrett, Edmond

BARRETT

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 6/27/2019 at 18:44:54

Edmond Barrett born 1836

EDMOND BARRETT resides on sections 33 and 34, Eden Township, where he settled in 1866. His farm contains 160 acres. But few improvements had been made when he purchased it. A log cabin had been built in which the family lived four years. Mr. Barrett then put up a small frame house. He was born in Otsego County New York, March 12, 1836. His parents were BENJAMIN and POLLY BARRETT, the former a native of New York and the latter of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandfather came to the county as a soldier in BURGOYNE’S army in the days of the Revolution. The parents resided in New York during their lives. Edmond came to Missouri in 1859. He enlisted in the Third Missouri Cavalry, and served with the Third and Seventh Cavalry for three years, in active service the greater part of the time. At the close of his term of service he returned to Missouri and was married April 1, 1866, to MARTHA MALONE, daughter of ANDERSON and MELISSA MALONE, who was born in Mercer County, Missouri, in 1842. Her father is still living. Her mother died May 16, 1879. Mr. and Mrs. BARRETT have five children – POLLY ANN, WILLIAM A., JOHN H., FREDERICK and MELISSA. RICHARD E. died at the age of nine months. Politically Mr. BARRETT is a Republican. While in the army he received a gun-shot wound from which he suffered severely.