Barnabus Arthur

Barnabus Arthur was the son of William A. Arthur and Ann Murray of Bedford County, Virginia. In 1755, Barnabus married Martha Talbot (b. 08/1740), daughter of Matthew Talbot and Jane Clayton. Martha was the aunt of another Matthew Talbot, who served as a Jeffersonian governor of Georgia in 1819 and is buried in Wilkes County, GA.

Barnabus and Martha had six children:

  1. William
  2. Matthew, born 1756; married Caty ____; son Lewis.
  3. Martha, Junior
  4. Jane, married John Routen.
  5. Talbot
  6. Lucy "Nancy", married James McElroy.

Barnabus died circa 1786. Martha and the five youngest children relinquished their share of his will to eldest son William, and may have moved to Wilkes County, GA.

Sources: Records of Elizabeth Jarrett Walton; The Probert Encyclopaedia.

© 2000 Philip Wendell Moore