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- From "FORGOTTEN TRAILS"
1939 "DANIEL GARLAND BARNES, of Skipperville, was born June 20, 1893, six miles north of Ozark. He is the son of Jacob and Callie Donia (Ard) Barnes, of Barnes Cross Roads, Dale County: grandson of Edward and Ann (Lammon) Barnes, also of Barnes Cross Roads, the former having served as captain of the Home Guardsduring the War Between the States, and of Reuben Norman and Mary Ann (Barber) Ard, of Dale County, the former having served for four years in the Confederate States Army and surrendered with Lee.
"Representative Barnes received his early education in the private and public schools of Dale County. Due to the fact that his high school education was interrupted by a necessity of having to work every other year he did not graduate until 1914. He taught for two years in his native county and entered the Alabama Polytechnic Institute [now Auburn University -- EBL] in 1916. He graduated with honors in May, 1919, and in August 1936, received the M. S. degree in school administration. He taught a year at Brantley, Crenshaw County, and Pittsview, Russell County. He was principal of the high school at New Hope, Madison County, 1931-1932, Clayton, Barbour County, 1932-1935, Ranbourn, Cleburne County, 1935-1936, and at Coffee Springs, Geneva County, 1936-37. He is now managing his farms around Skipperville. During the World War he served as private of [the] Chemical Warfare Service, Field Testing Section, Long Island, N. Y., having been drafted May 1918, and discharged January 2, 1919. He is a Democrat, a Methodist, a Mason, a member of Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity and Kappa Delta Pi educational honorary fraternity.
"Married: August 5, 1920, at Skipperville, Shellie May, daughter of John Andrew and Mary Ellen (Burdeshaw) Whigham, of that place. Children: 1. Mary Ellen; 2 and 3, twins, Ruth Ard and Nancy Whigham. "
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1893 - 1978 (85 years)
