A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Jeanette Jane Barnum received a homestead patent in Arizona. The patent description in BLM records is as follows: Patentee: Jennette Jane Barnum; Survey State: Arizona; Acres: 159.91; Metes/Bounds: No; Title Transfer Issue Date: 11/15/1916; Land Office: Phoenix; Cancelled: No; US Reservations: Yes; Mineral Reservations: No; Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392); Document Nr.: 016447; Misc. Doc. Nr.: 0; Accession/Serial Nr.: 554521; BLM Serial Nr.: AZPHX 0016447.
From the Arizona Independent Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, 11 May 1935: Mrs. Barnum. A resident of Arizona before Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, even before the close of the Civil War, Mrs. Nettie Jane Barnum died early yesterday morning in the family home at 1007 East Polk street. She was 86 years old.
Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock this morning in the J. T. Whitney chapel with the Rev. Walter L. Barr officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Memorial Park.
A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Barnum came to Arizona as a child with her parents, 77 years ago. The Barnums first settled in Prescott.
Sixty-five years ago Mrs. Barnum moved to Phoenix, where she since had resided. She witnessed the building of a modern city from a struggling desert town.
Surviving are five sons, E. N., J. R., L. H., and L. B. Barnum of Phoenix and W. H. Barnum of San Antonio, Tex.; two daughters, Mrs. Hattie E. Barnett of Phoenix and Mrs. Lula Kline of California; a brother, Neri F. Osborne, Phoenix, and two sisters, Mrs. Rose Copeland and Mrs. Sadie Kramer, residing in California.
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