Mary Rosina Barnes
Mary Rosina Barnes was born on 3 June 1833 in South Carolina. Her father was born in North Carolina and her mother in South Carolina, as she told the census taker in 1880. On 16 January 1853, in Thomas County, Georgia, she married Terrel M. Fielder. He was a widower of about thirty, the Terrel Fielder of twenty-eight found in Thomas County in 1850, and he had married a Susan Wilson there in 1850. His son Thomas, born about 1852, was in her household in 1860. Her husband was a carpenter, and in 1864 he served as a private in the Georgia Reserves.
A family tree gives her seven children born between 1854 and 1871: Lucius, James Marcus, Milton, Ella Mae, Terrell Elmer, Mary Elizabeth and Maggie M. Lucius, called Len, was born at Thomasville a year after the wedding. Terrell Elmer was born at Quitman, Georgia, in 1865 and became sheriff of DeSoto County, Florida. His death certificate of 1934 gives his mother's maiden name as "Sarah Barnes," born in South Carolina, from the information of his widow.
By 1880 she was at Lake City, Florida, keeping her family as a dressmaker. The census of June 1880 lists Mary R. Fielder, forty-seven, as head of the house and widowed, with "Loushious" (Len) 26, James 23, Ella May 18, Mary E. 12 and Maggie 10, all born in Georgia. Terrell Elmer, then fifteen, was not with them.
The move into Florida began about 1872. Her eldest son, Len, born at Thomasville, Georgia, in January 1854, came to Florida at eighteen and lived mostly in Columbia County, around Lake City. Her husband was not dead. By about 1876 he had left for a new household in Gadsden County, Florida, with Margaret, a woman born in 1859. In June 1880 the census found him there, a wheelwright of fifty-seven, with Margaret, two small sons of theirs and Mary Rosina's son Terrell, then fifteen. He died in 1887 and was buried at Sneads, in Jackson County, under a stone he shares with Margaret. Her daughter Maggie died in 1889 at eighteen. Mary Rosina died on 8 February 1897 and was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery at Lake City, Florida, inside an iron-fenced plot. It was the family lot. When Len died at Live Oak at the end of 1904, his body was brought back to Lake City and buried there, and his obituary named his brother J. M. Fielder of Lake City, his sister Mrs. W. J. Perry of Lake City, a sister in Kissimmee, and "a brother, Sheriff Fielder, of Arcadia." Her headstone reads: "MARY R. / WIFE OF / T.M. FIELDER / JUNE 3, 1833 / FEB. 8, 1897."
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Cite: Heirology, "Mary Rosina Barnes (1833-1897)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/mary-rosina-barnes-1833-1897-de854e.