Pendleton-Barnes Family Papers

Archive

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Walsh History Center - Camden Public Library

Name/Title

Pendleton-Barnes Family Papers

Entry/Object ID

WHC 2013.13

Tags

Cataloging review

Scope and Content

Box of letters, photographs and ephemera from the Pendleton home on Barnestown Road in Hope. Some are letters to and from Philip Pendleton during his service in the South Pacific in World War II. Also included are 2 large framed portraits of Pendleton and Barnes family members and one charcoal portrait by Will Hall of William Barnes, great-great-grandfather of the donor. Will Hall was a talented artist who married Sarah "Effie" Barnes, daughter of William Barnes. There is also one cardboard matted picture of Edna St. Vincent Millay, aged about 15, with 2 adults and several high school classmates including Henry Treat Pendleton. Pages from family bible recording birth, marriages & deaths. According to the donor, "William Barnes was the father of Clifford Barnes. Clifford Barnes married Nellie Morton - they were the parents of Evelyn (Evie) Barnes and Florence Barnes. Evie Barnes married Cliff Taylor, and they ran the Taylor Inn on Elm Street in Camden, Maine. Florence Barnes married Henry Pendleton, my grandfather. Henry grew up on the old Pendleton homestead on Howe Hill Road. There were about 6 Pendleton boys, the old Pendleton house ended up with one of the brothers, Louis. Louis sold the Pendleton homestead (in the 1950's?), the house is now the site of the Rockefeller's Bald Mountain Farm. Florence and Henry Pendleton lived at the house on Barnestown Road. At one time, there were Barnes' living across the street and I believe there was another house in the area (that is long gone) and the area came to be known as Barnestown (and hence the name of the road). The old house was built sometime in the late 1790's. We have a deed from 1834 where it was transferred from one Barnes to another - we assume this was a generational transfer and the house was built by the original Barnes sometime before that. From the saw marks in the attic it has been estimated at 1790's."

Collection

Pendleton-Barnes Family Papers

Cataloged By

Heather Moran

Acquisition

Accession

WHC 2013.13

Source or Donor

Ms. Susan H. Pendleton

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

In Memory of: Pendleton-Barnes Family

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Families, Farms, Correspondence, Bibles, Photographs, Schools, Charcoal drawings, Documents, Pictures, Ephemera, Portrait drawings, Houses, School children, Farm life, Malaria

Search Terms

Barnestown Road, Camden, Hope, Maine, World War II

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Collection

Archive Details

Creator

Pendleton and Barnes families

Date(s) of Creation

1862 - 1945

Archive Size/Extent

.42 linear feet (1 box) 2 framed portraits

Archive Notes

Date(s) Assembled: 1862-1962 Publication Notes: See also: vertical file "Hall, Will L." System of Arrangement: Temporarily arranged in folders according to original arrangement of donor.

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Other Number

Other Number

MS 009

Location

Location

Container

MS 009 Box Pendleton-Barnes Family Paper

Shelf

Shelf 3

Cabinet

Vault Shelving Unit 1

Room

Storage Room

Building

Walsh History Center

Category

Permanent

Date

October 21, 2025

Location

Container

MS 009

Room

Storage Room

Building

Walsh History Center

Category

Permanent

Moved By

Heather Moran

Date

February 21, 2014

Inventory

Inventoried By

Wyatt Berry

Inventoried Date

Mar 27, 2018

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Date Examined

Apr 25, 2013

Examined By

Heather Bilodeau

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Barnes, Abel

Person or Organization

Barnes, Benjamin

Person or Organization

Barnes, Benjamin

Person or Organization

Barnes, Evie

Person or Organization

Barnes, Florence Adella

Person or Organization

Barnes, William Clifford (later reversed to Clifford W.)

Person or Organization

Barnes, William Ellison

Person or Organization

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Person or Organization

Morton, Nellie Florence

Person or Organization

Pendleton, Henry Treat

Person or Organization

Pendleton, Philip Winston

Person or Organization

Taylor, Clifford

General Notes

Note

Tag Date: 2014-02-19 15:32:36 Status: OK Status By: Heather Moran Status Date: 2016-02-06

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

April 25, 2013

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

October 27, 2025