Benjamin J. Barrett

✦ direct ancestor — my children's 4×-great-grandfather · Ramsay line, the Woodall–Ramsay side — their mother's people

Marriage & children

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1860 U.S. census, population schedule, Precinct 3, Butler County, Alabama, post office Oakey Streak, page 149 (NARA M653 roll 3; image via Ancestry coll. 7667)

1860 census, Precinct 3, Butler Co., Ala., p. 149, dwelling 1092, family 1092, lines 8-15; Ancestry coll. 7667 image 4211176_00151 (11 of 16), rec. 12810566

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[Read on the image 8 Oct 2026 (register K966): lines 8-15, columns name, age, sex, occupation, real and personal estate, birthplace, school. No relationship column in 1860.] Dwelling 1092, family 1092: B. J. Barrett, 36, m, Farmer, real estate 1200, personal 500, birthplace BLANK on the image; E. Barrett, 32, f, born Georgia; W. S. Barrett, 13, m, born Alabama, at school; M. F. Barrett, 11, f, at school; T. J. Barrett, 9, m, at school; S. Barrett, 7, f; J. T. Barrett, 5, m; A. J. Barrett, 2, m (birthplaces after W. S. by ditto).

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Confederate pension application no. 1499 (widow), Elizabeth Barrett, Franklin County, filed 3 July 1899; Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Confederate Pension Applications, roll 387 (image via Ancestry coll. 1677)

Texas Confederate pension file 01499, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett, widow of B. J. Barrett, 1899; Ancestry coll. 1677 rec. 218542, images 32241_1020703347_1206-00298 and -00299 (299-300 of 469)

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[Read on the images 8 Oct 2026 (register K967): the jacket and the first page of the sworn application, to the company question; the later pages, the affidavits and the county judge's certificate not read. The applicant's surname is written Borrett throughout.] Jacket: Elizabeth Barrett, Franklin County, post office Mt Vernon, Tex.; Comptroller's file no. 1499; approved 28 Sept 1899. Application: she is a resident citizen of Franklin County, Texas, the widow of B. J. Borrett, deceased, a Confederate soldier. What is your name? Elizabeth Borrett. Age? 71 years. County? Franklin County Texas. How long resided, post office? 26 years, Mount Vernon Texas. Applied before? No. Physical condition? I am debilitated by age. Name of your deceased husband? B. J. Borrett. Married to him before March 1, 1866, and where? yes, in Apr. 1846 in Butler Co. Ala. Date of his death? Killed in 1863 in last days Battle of Chickamauga. Unmarried since? I am, I have. Company and regiment? Company B, 4th Bat. [rest not read]

Texas State Board of Health, standard certificate of death, registered no. 20 (stamped 15788), Thomas Jefferson Barrett, d. 18 May 1919, Mt. Vernon, Franklin County (image via Ancestry coll. 2272)

Texas death certificate, Thomas Jefferson Barrett, Mt. Vernon, 1919, stamped 15788; Ancestry coll. 2272 rec. 40124496, image 33154_B061856-00387 (Franklin, 1919, Apr-Jun, 4 of 6)

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[Read on the image 8 Oct 2026 (register K964): items 1-14, 19-20 and the physician's signature; the medical items read only for the cause.] 1. County: Franklin; city: Mt Vernon. 2. Full name: Thomas Jefferson Barrett. 3. Male. 4. White. 5. Married. 6. Date of birth: November 15th 1851. 7. Age: 67 years 5 months 27 days. 8. Occupation: Farming. 9. Birthplace: Butler Co. Alabama. 10. Name of father: Benjamin Barrett. 11. Birthplace of father: [blank]. 12. Maiden name of mother: Mary Elizabeth Pitts. 13. Birthplace of mother: Georgia. 14. Informant: Nannie Barrett, Mt Vernon, Tex. 16. Date of death: May 18, 1919; cause general senility; physician J. M. Fleming, M.D. 19. Place of burial: Providence, 5/19/19. 20. Undertaker: M. L. Edwards & Co., Mt. Vernon, Tex.

Research notes

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Research note · 8 Oct 2026

AUDITED 8 Oct 2026 - BENJAMIN J. BARRETT, farmer, of Butler County, Alabama; killed in 1863 in the battle of Chickamauga. In the 1860 census (Precinct 3, Butler County, page 149, read on the image, register K966) he is B. J. Barrett, 36, farmer, real estate $1,200, his birthplace left blank, with E. Barrett, 32, born Georgia, and six children. His widow Elizabeth's Texas Confederate pension application, no. 1499 (Franklin County, 1899, K967), names him as "B. J. Borrett". It says they married in April 1846 in Butler County and that he was killed in 1863 in the last day's battle of Chickamauga, serving in "Company B, 4th Bat." His son Thomas Jefferson Barrett's 1919 Texas death certificate (K964) names him "Benjamin Barrett". His daughter [3423] Mary E. Holder is attached as his child by ARGUMENT; see her note, which explains why her own certificate's "J. T. Barrett" is taken as an error. Only [3423] is attached in this tree. Find a Grave gives him 1825-1863 (K253, compiled, not adopted). His middle name and parents are unknown.

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