Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hopkins Co.

JOHN D. BARNHILL was born in North Carolina, July 12, 1829, and is 
a son of James B. and Emma (Wynns) Barnhill, natives of North 
Carolina, and of English extraction.  James B. Barnhill was 
married in his native State, where be farmed until 1836, when he 
removed with his wife and family to Henry County, Tenn., where be 
remained one year.  He then came to what is now Webster County, 
then a part of Hopkins County, bought wild land near Providence, 
and improved a farm upon which be resided until his death in 
October, I880, in his seventy-fifth year; he and wife were for 
many years members of the United Baptist Church.  John D. was 
employed on his father's farm until be attained his majority, when 
his father gave him a partially improved farm, which he afterward 
sold.  He then bought another farm adjoining, but in Nebo 
District, Hopkins County, upon which be still resides.  He was 
married in 1853 to Miss Nancy F. James, a native of Tennessee; 
eight children - five sons and three daughters - all living, have 
blessed this union.  Mr. Barnhill is a member of the United 
Baptist Church, and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South.  He is an earnest advocate of the temperance cause.  In 
politics. he is a Democrat.

Barnhill James Wynns
=
NC Henry-TN Providence-Webster-KY

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