Olive LNU

Olive was born on July 28th, 1784. She died at the age of 79 on April 3rd, 1864.

General Notes
- b. SC
  m. (SC) abt. 1806 to Ezekiel BARNETT
  children b. 1808-1830 in SC
  d. Lauderdale Cty, AL
  buried Barnett Cemetery, Lexington, Lauderdale Cty, AL
  
  buried alongside husband Ezekiel, Elvye and Tomas; birth/death dates on tombstone
  
  Tony Malta on tombstone, 6/06:
  Two of the oldest gravestones in the Barnett Cemetery have to be that of Ezekiel Barnett and the one next to his (photo has Fran trying to read the stone) for somebody named Olive (Barnett) -- it is too weathered to make out much more than that first name.
  
  Ezekiel's stone however, is very readable:
  
  "EZEKIEL BARNETT
  DIED
  JULY 17, 1871
  AGED 92 YRS" the "92" looks like it had been re-cut over "99".
  
  The "92 YRS" looks like it was added later -- or at least not at the same time as the other engraved words -- it is in a different typeface that the other wording and looks a bit cleaner. Perhaps somebody re-cut the stone to correct a typo or the wrong number since the "2" actually can be mistaken for a "9" (Aged 99 yars?) which may have been what it
  originally read ...
  
  Fran really tried to see anything else on the "Olive" stone but it is badly weathered and the stone is too soft to even tell anything else.
  
  CMB 3/07: I searched for YANCEY (soundex) in SC in 1810, coming up with Cyrus YANCEY in Pendleton, btwn J[oseph] ANDERSON and J[oseph] MC COLLIXTER, 30010-20010-00 thus Cyrus = age 26-45 (b 1765-1784), conceivably old enough to be father of Olive 1784 SC, Ezekiel's wife. Nothing more to go on, though, and couldn't find Cyrus in 1800. 1820 for Pendleton has Dabney, Louis and Miles YANCY, first names we don't find in our BARNETT line.

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