{"id":48817,"date":"2019-03-21T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=48817"},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:19:32","slug":"david-p-barnes-stage-coach-driver-civil-war-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/david-p-barnes-stage-coach-driver-civil-war-veteran.html","title":{"rendered":"David P. Barnes \u2013 Stage Coach Driver & Civil War Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking in one of our old family Bibles over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Credit: Thomas Jay Kemp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the Bible, Edward and Sarah Wright, my 3rd great-grandparents, were married on St. Patrick’s Day, 17 March 1827, in Mahopac, Putnam County, New York \u2013 192 years ago.<\/p>\n

The Bible also recorded the marriage of Edward\u2019s sister Marium Wright<\/a> to David P. Barnes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Searching for more information in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, I found David\u2019s obituary.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, New-York Daily Tribune (New York City, New York), 17 January 1900, page 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What a great life.
\nHe was a stage coach driver for the \u201cRed Bird Line.\u201d (When the Harlem Railroad began running, they had railroad coaches called Red Birds. That probably was a tip of the hat to these early stage coaches.)<\/p>\n

David served in the Civil War \u201cin Company B, 6th New York Heavy Artillery.\u201d He joined with those that served after the war in the \u201cCromwell Post No. 466, G. A. R. [Grand Army of the Republic], of White Plains,\u201d New York.<\/p>\n

He was the first fire chief of White Plains, New York.
\nHe was chief of police of White Plains, New York.<\/p>\n

Was there anything he didn\u2019t do?<\/p>\n

Dig into GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> and search for the history of your family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches old newspapers to learn more about the interesting life of a member of his family tree: David P. Barnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,2020],"class_list":["post-48817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/illustration-0321-2019-featured-graphic-stage-coach.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}