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Persoonlijke opmerking
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Thomas Pierce, son of John and Eliza Ann (Thayer) Barnefield, was born March 25, 1844, in Boston, Mass., and was educated in the public schools of Massachusetts.His father died when he was eight years old, and his mother was married to Martin Snow, of North Bridgewater, now Brockton. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the 35th regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers and served with his regiment in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, and Jackson, and was mustered out at the close of the war with the rank of first lieutenant. In 1865 he located in Pawtucket, and entered as a student in the law office of Pardon E. Tillinghast, now associate justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Oct. 8, 1870, he was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced his profession in Pawtucket. In 1871-72 he was elected by the general assembly a judge of the magistrates' court for Pawtucket and vicinity; and was appointed judge of the Probate Court of Pawtucket for the years 1879-80-81. He was elected a member of the General Assembly from Pawtucket for the sessions of 1880, 1881, 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1887. In 1884 he was appointed town solicitor of Pawtucket, and, upon the organization of the city government in 1886, he was elected city solitior and held that office until 1896. He is, by appointment of the supreme court, one of the standing masters in chancery for the county of Providence. In 1880 he was appointed assistant judge advocate general of the state, with the rank of captain. He is a member of the Congregational church and for the last eighteen years has been superintendent of the Sabbath school. From October, 1892, to October, 1894, he was president of the Congregational Club of Rhode Island; and in 1895 was chosen a director of the Rhode Island Home Missionery Society. Since 1888 he has been a trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank. In 1871 he was married to Clara Josephine Paine, by which union there are three children: Florence May; Harold Chester; Ralph Tillinghast. Mr. Barnefield is descended in the
ninth generation on his mother's side from John Alden who came to America in the Mayflower in 1620. His father, formerly of Gloucestershire, England, is a descendant of John Barneveldt, who was Grand Pensionary of Holland in the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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BARNEFIELD
John
BARNEFIELD Ruth ( 1914 - ? )
