From the History of Hardin County Ohio. I think this may be on pages 990 and 991 concerning Liberty Township.
REV. A. C. BARNES, A. M., was born in Summit County, Ohio, September 9, 1835. His father, Denison Barnes, was born in Hampden Co., Mass., September 6, 1801, and with his parents emigrated to Ohio in the spring of 1815. stopping one year in Trumbull County, and the 1st day of April, the following year, found them putting up their log-cabin on the ground in Summit County, Newton Township, which has now been the home of father and son for sixty-seven years. The parentage still further back on the paternal side were born of the sturdiest New England stock, and can be traced, in earlier times, to a, descent from a; united English, Welsh, and Irish origin. His grandfather, on the maternal side, Samuel Bodine, was born in Rockingham County, Va., and his ancestry on both sides is traced from New Jersey and Maryland to Holland and Germany. Samuel Bodine, having settled with his little family on the State line between Pennsylvania and Virginia, in 1817, moved to Wayne County, Ohio, in which county he lived until he died at the age of eighty-four years. Grandfather Barnes died at the age of eighty seven years. Nearly all of the ancestry on both sides raised large families and were, almost without exception, possessed of great tenacity of life. Many of them reaching eighty, ninety, and the maternal great-grandmother one hundred and one years. The childhood of our sketch was passed on the farm, going to the district school in winter, with hard work on the farm all the rest of the year. Commenced his college course at Baldwin University, Berea Ohio, at the age of sixteen, and often teaching alternate years, and working at home during the intervals, graduated in the classical course at the age of twenty-three. All his ancestry, so far as we have knowledge, embraced the Arminian form of theology, and were stanch members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The subject of this sketch was happily converted to God while at the University, at seventeen years of age, under the labors of Rev. Liberty Prentice. From a child, his thoughts had been turned toward the Christian ministry; but as he grew to manhood he conceived a great aversion to being led out in that direction. After his graduation, to escape the call to the ministry, he spent two years in the South and West, teaching and circulating books, in which, financially, he was very successful, but all the while harassed by the conviction that he ought to preach. At last, yielding to what he felt to he the order of Providence, he entered the traveling of Methodist Episcopal Church at the session of the Central Ohio Annual Conference, held in Kenton September, 1861. He was married, March 16, 1861, to Miss Harriet P. Gee. of Geauga County. Ohio, with whom he had studied side by side in the University, both graduating in the same class. On February 1866, while stationed at Wapakoneta, she joyfully passed to the land of eternal light and song, leaving her husband with two babies, one three years, and the other three weeks old. About one year after, he was married to Miss Jane E. Thrift, of Kalida, Ohio. During his pastorate, he has served four charges one year each, four charges two years each, and three charges three years each, coming to Ada and entering upon the pastorate here last September. The conference year thus far has been quite prosperous, sixty having been already received into the church, twenty-seven being heads of families.