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The Barnes & Blair Family

Five generations of the Barnes and Blair lines in Clay County and Macon County, Illinois, anchored on the marriage of Georgia Hope Blair (b. 1922, d. 1991) and Leland L. 'Bud' Barnes (b. 1922, d. 1982, WWII Coast Artillery Corps veteran with four Bronze Battle Stars from Normandy through Central Europe). The Blair line walks back through Garnet Othal Blair and Margaret Angeline Zink to Stephan Blair Sr. + Martha J. Walker. The Barnes line walks back through Ora J. 'Jay' Barnes and Bessie May Glasgow Barnes to James A. Barnes + Amanda Byrnes. Most of the family is buried at Iola Cemetery, Iola, Clay County, Illinois. Hope eventually remarried Robert Deister of Decatur and is buried at Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, alongside Robert and their daughter Jill.

Primary sources

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