More about that in a moment. Grandmother Day was born Ada Rene Barnes. He died in Cove in Oregon's Union County. According to family records, W.G. Barnes was born in Morgantown in Indiana's Morgan County. Our records say his father, George Warren Barnes, was born in Morgantown in 1760 and died in 1853.
Genealogical research is an exercise bound by geography and history.
Reading my account of the Barneses thus far, some of you already may have raised an eyebrow. I hope so. First I consulted Everton Publishers' The Handybook for Genealogists and found that Morgantown didn't exist when G.W. was born in 1760. Indeed, Indiana Territory wasn't organized until 1800. Prior to that, the area now called Indiana was part of the old and unsettled Northwest Territory.