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.
Bill Hindman, 1945 Syracuse to 2025 Fountain Hills
William John 'Bill' Hindman was born 12 December 1945 at Syracuse Memorial Hospital, Onondaga County, NY. His father Boyden William was a Precision Casting Co. engineer; his mother Barbara F Rice traced back through 12 generations of the Rice line to Edmund Rice, Sudbury 1638. Middle of three siblings: Bob (1940 Connecticut), Bill (1945 Syracuse), Brenda. Bill grew up, lived a life, raised his own family, and ended his days in Fountain Hills, Arizona. He died in 2025. Brant Hindman, his son, is the spearhead of this memorial site, the documented endpoint of the line that runs from a Reverend John Hindman in Ireland around 1720, through Pennsylvania, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, and Arizona, and from Edmund Rice in Sudbury in 1638, through Massachusetts, Pittsfield, Manhattan, Virginia, Oak Park, and the same Arizona endpoint. This site was started in June 2026 to hold all of it in one place.
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