Source World Family Tree Vol 7, Tree 2533
Since the days of Daniel Barry, whom Collins distinguishes as the 'Irish
Linguist,' Hopkinsville has enjoyed the advantage of many noted and
excellent educators. Barry taught here as early as 1812, and came from the
upper part of the State--perhaps Nelson County. Collins mentions him as
having taught the Hon. Ben. Hardin in that county. Here he had for pupils,
among others, James and Edward Rumsey, the former of whom afterward taught
here, and sent out into the various vocations of life many distinguished
men and women.
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Source Ted L Roberts, tedlroberts@@hotmail.com
Taught the family of John Heyland, Res. Glen Oak, County Antrim.Landed in Philadelphia Aug 1797
Daniel Barry born 1 August, 1769, near Bannbidge, County of Down, in the north of Ireland. studied for the priesthood (Catholic) but became disenchanted of that faith and left that occupation. Then lived with a relative, a druggist, with a view of studying medicine, became disgusted with the deception of that practice. Next took a position as a private tutor with a family of a gentleman by the name of Orr. His labors not heavy he had much leisure to improve himself through study and by the acquaintances formed here, he gained friends of such standing in society as to be of much benefit to him in after years. In about 1791 he obtained a situation as tutor, but of a high grade, in the house of a gentleman called Daniel Heyland, his residence known as Glen Oak, in the county of Antrim, near the home of Tolands, where he met Rosanna Toland, his future wife. He had the instruction of the daughters, sons, and other relatives here and secured the esteem and warm friendship of the entire family connection. I have seen many evidences of grateful feeling evidenced by presents marked with the names and written by the hands of the donors expressive of kind and grateful acknowledgements. His library was almost made up with presents of this kind and even after his living there till 1797. When he left for America he found boxes at the seaport, Belfast, forwarded without his knowledge by the friends left behind. The date mentioned above 1797 will show that his native land was involved in trouble for some time past. The spirit of the United Irishmen was aroused; parties formed, and a time had arrived when it was unsafe for men of that party to remain in their native land. My father's brother Henry, had been a warm partisan in the county of Down, had become a mark at which vengeance was pointed by government spies and he had gotten off by the aid of friends, come to Antrim was concealed there some weeks, and my father determined to carry out immediately his intention of going to America. It had been his desire for several years to make his home there ultimately, but he had delayed while his business was lucrative and his country peaceful. That time was over now. Daniel Barry and Rosannne Toland were married November 1793, remained at the home of her father near Glen Oak (Glen Oak is the name of a house where the Tolands lived). Aug. 1st, 1794 Valentine Derry (son) was born. named for a favorite schoolmate of Daniel Barry's. This schoolmate years after came to America and settled on Long Island and established a seminary of some note, of which he was principal. July 17, 1796 I was born (narrator Mrs. Rosa Barton Tyler of Holly Springs Mississippi, whose mother was a sister of Judge V. D. Barry, grandfather of W. V. Barry. This narrator writes in first person as if she were her mother). On the 3rd of June 1797 the family left Ireland for America. It was a heart rending event of Rosanne often in early years have i sat at my mother's knee and shed tears with her over the recital of the trial of that hour! How her father, distressed almost beyond endurance, was unable to leave his bed, drew her to his breast, kissed her and exclaimed, "Oh, my Rosa, my child, how much rather would I lay you in your grave!" The death of his son Arthur, who had emigrated a few years before and of whom the news of his death had recently reached his family served to render the old man less hopeful for any more of his children who went to the same country. My uncle died suddenly in the same town in Pennsylvania, as my mother learned when she arrived in Philadelphia. We left my native land accompanied by my uncle, Henry Barry, Miss Ann Galt and two of her nieces, who were coming over under care of my father to her brother-in-law, a Mr. Simmes, in Fincastle, Bott tourt County, VA. Mis Galt was a relative of the Heyland family where my father had taught for several years. I can remember reading her letters to my father and mother and one to myself in answer to one written by me when not more than six years of age. Our voyage across the Atlantic was tedious. We were ten weeks on the sea, two weeks becalmed. My mother, worn down by distress and the effects of the sea, took a severe fever and was not expected to live during the greater part of the voyage, She was however spared to pass through an eventful life. When we arrived in Philadelphia she was barely able to walk. Supported by my father's arm to a boarding house. Here she commenced her new era of life, meeting with wonders innumerable and of every kind. Father offered several opportunities for employment, but determined to make his way to the new state of Kentucky. He secured places for his wife and two children in a wagon and set out himself by foot to pursue his way westward. This mode of travel will appear to some tedious, but to the emigrant, everything was new and interesting. even to the gambos of the squirrels on the trees and fences and an occasional sight of a snake was one to raise both curiosity and horror in one from the land where no serpent can exist. Thanks to St. Patrick! My uncle, being unmarried, chose to remain behind. He also taught but wished to be nearer his old home, ready if circumstances worsened. His career was short he came at the end of one year to Kentucky, where he spent a year, assisting my father in school. His yearnings for home then became so strong he determined to go back and act as the times might require. His return was marked by spies and his arrest determined on. His fate, if arrested, was certain the same as that of Emmet. This fate had been in his mind before his emigration and the strong resolve never to submit to it was settled. I do not recollect the name of the town in which he had stopped at an inn where the officers of Tyranny were placed on his track by spies and came up stairs to his room. He was ready with arms, met his foes promptly, shot five of them and with the sixth and last pistol, put an instant end to his own existence. Better suicide than the gallows had long been his conclusion. SKIPPED SOME OF THE NARRATION HERE: ADDITIONAL NARRATION OF FILM: John Barry'S wife Eleanor Diamond Barry lived in Nowry County of Down, in Ireland. Both had been married before. He had by his first wife one daughter Eleanor and two sons David and Michael. She had one dau. also named Eleanor. After they married they had three sons Daniel, Henry and John. Daniel married Rosanna Toland her father was Henry Toland and her mother Elizabeth (McAlpin) Toland, who lived in the county of Antrim, near the southwestern Extremity of Bough Naugn, ten miles form Belfast Ireland. Rosanna's parent had 11 children, John, William, Hugh, Roger, Arthur, Henry and daughters, Elizabeth, Rosanna, Catherine, Nancy Alice and Jennie. Daniel Barry and Rosanna Toland married in Nov. 1793. They had two children before they came to America Valentine D. and Mary Jane, both born in Ireland. They left for America June 3, 1797, landed in Philadelphia, Penn. after ten weeks at sea. Children of Daniel and Rosanna Barry 1) Valentine Daniel Barry b. Aug. 1, 1794 in Ireland He married Martha Adams Feb 11, 1816 2) Mary Jane Barry born Jul 17, 1796 in Ireland married Wm. Killebrew april 1817 and moved to Mississippi. 3) Eliza Barry b. Sep. 1798, Bardstown, Ky m. Samuel Orr.* 4) Henry Barry b. May 4, 1800, Bardstown, Ky d. Jul 1822 at home of John Rowan in Louisville, Ky 5) Nancy (called Ann) b. Feb 18, 1802, married John T., Johnson d. Dec 26, 1851. 6) Eleanore (Ellen) married James Killebrew moved to Mississippi. 7) Eudora, born Oct. 19, 1813, married Roger Barton. ************** Children of Valentine D. and Martha Barry 1- William A.F. Barry born Nov 23, 1816 Springfield, Tn Died Feb. 13. 1882. 2-Henry Allen Barry born Feb 2, 1819 at Springfield Tn. 3-Martha (mae) Barry born Aug. 25, 1821 Springfield Tn 4-Eudora Barry born Mar. 11, 1826 at Boliver Tn. 5-Valentine Daniel Barry born Nov. 10, 1830 at Boliver. *************************************************************** Dr. William A. F. Barry first married Frances Taylor May 27, 1841 Children: 1-Daniel Barry b. Dec 17, 1842 at Raleigh N.C. 2-William Henry Barry b. Feb. 9, 1845, died when 3mos. old May 27, 1845 at Purdy Tn. 2nd Marriage of William A. F. Barry Frances Taylor Barry died May 17, 1845 and Dr. William Barry married her sister Jane Taylor on Feb 26, 1846. Children: 1-Frances Lewis Barry b. Feb 20, 1847, Albatross, La married Dr. Ewiny. 2-Dr. Thomas T. Barry b. Jan 30, 1850, Potacot, Tn married Mima Peace. 3-Williah Jane Barry b. Jan 8, 1853 Potacot, Tn died as infant. 4-Laura Eudora Born Dec 7, 1851 Clifton, Tn, married J. W. Jones 5-Julia Darling Barry born Jul 23, 1859 Clifton, Tn married Charles Ferrell. 6-Mennie Christian Barry born Feb 13, 1862 Clifton, Tn. married D. S. Walker. ************************************************************ *page 19 as told by Mary Ann Barry Killebrew In September, 1818, Sister Eliza married Mr. Samuel Orr. Of this marriage I will write nothing more than it was an unfortunate one for her; she died in 1840 leaving 8 children. The oldest were daughters, both of whom married before her death. Her six sons were reared by her bothers and sisters. Only two are now living. Sister Eliza was buried in Stewart County, Tennessee. *page 19 as told by Mary Ann Barry Killegrew Children of Daniel and Rosanna Barry 1) Valentine Daniel Barry b. Aug. 1, 1794 in Ireland He married Martha Adams Feb 11, 1816 2) Mary Jane Barry born Jul 17, 1796 in Ireland married Wm. Killebrew april 1817 and moved to Mississippi. 3) Eliza Barry b. Sep. 1798, Bardstown, Ky m. Samuel Orr.* 4) Henry Barry b. May 4, 1800, Bardstown, Ky d. Jul 1822 at home of John Rowan in Louisville, Ky 5) Nancy (called Ann) b. Feb 18, 1802, married John T., Johnson d. Dec 26, 1851. 6) Eleanore (Ellen) married James Killebrew moved to Mississippi. 7) Eudora, born Oct. 19, 1813, married Roger Barton. In September, 1818, Sister Eliza married Mr. Samuel Orr. Of this marriage I will write nothing more than it was an unfortunate one for her; she died in 1840 leaving 8 children. The oldest were daughters, both of whom married before her death. Her six sons were reared by her bothers and sisters. Only two are not living. Sister Eliza was buried in Stewart County, Tennessee.
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Source: History of the Barry Family
Written by Benjamin Patton of Hopkinsville, KY
Mortuary
Died--On the 19th instant, after a lingering disease of some months continuance, in the meridian of life and usefulness, Daniel Barry, President of the Sparta Academy in this county.(Christian Co., KY) He was a son of the Emerald Isle. He had taken a conspicuous part in her politics on the side of Liberty and when the storm of power and persecutions arose, he fled to the sanctuary of the persecuted man--to America. With an intellect, vigorous and inexhaustible fount of science and solid learning, he became a profitable instructor of youth and many of the rising professional characters of the day, who were his disciples afford simple testimony of the success with which he reared the tender thought. In politics, Sidney: and in morals, Addison, was his model. In generous, sincere friendship, his heart was warm; and in every situation he was manly and independent. He had left a large and respectable family to mourn their irreparable loss and the Genius of Literature will long weep the ruin of a favorite votary. Enough.
Peace to the mandes departed worthy!
Can thy feeble eulogist recall thee from the tomb?
"Can storied urn or animated bust back fro the tomb recall the fleeting breath?
Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust or flattery soothe the dust cold ear of Death?
Oh! No, "tis impossible, I will then venerate thee.
Tho' thou art gone, and strive to imitate thy worth, The best monument to thy memory.
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Kentucky Will Index Book C
Name: Daniel Barry
OSPage: 51
Date:: May 1816
County: Christian