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The Barnard families of Rush and Shelby County, Indiana, descend from the Quaker whaling families of Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. Other families migrating from Nantucket to North Carolina and then to the Northwest Territory included Gardner, Macy, Swain, Worth, Coffin, Starbuck, Folger and Hussey. Our line links to the Mayflower Society through an indentured servant, John Howland.
Barzillai Gardner Barnard and Rachel Roberts moved to Rush County about 1830. Of their eleven children, nine stayed in the Rush-Shelby area. One son, Leander, moved his family to Bond County, Illinois; another son moved to Washington state.
David Elmore Barnard (son of Barzillai and Rachel) and his wife, Louisa Jennie Swain raised their family near Manilla, Rush County, just east of the Shelby County line.
Their children were Allie Swain Barnard (died young)
Omar Barnard who married Lulu Macy,
Marshall Swain Barnard who married Lillian Pearl Taylor and
Roy French Barnard who married Minnie Schliessmann.
John Paul Barnard was their only son and
Elizabeth French Barnard was their only daughter.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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