Ninth Generation

17355. Rosetta "Nettie" Pennell was born on 10 May 1909 in Alexander Co., NC. She lived with G. F. Barnes in Alexander Co., NC on 16 April 1930. Nettie died on 12 July 2007 at the age of 98 at Brian Center East in Hickory, Catawba Co., NC and was buried at Taylorsville City Cemetery in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC on 14 July 2007.⁴³⁹³⁴

Obituary, The Taylorsville Times, Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC, Dec. 27, 2007

Rosetta "Nettie" Pennell Barnes, 98, a resident of the Taylorsville House died Thursday, July 12, 2007 at Brian Center East in Hickory following an extended illness.

She was born May 10, 1909 in Alexander County to the late Jefferson Pennell and Mary Jane Coffey Pennell. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Taylorsville and retired from Holly Farms.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Flake Barnes; an infant daughter, Sally Barnes; two sisters, Eve Land and Maggie Jolly and six brothers, Hugh Pennell, Jay Pennell, Ray Pennell, Hall Pennell, Doll Pennell and Lee Pennell.

Survivors include a number of nieces and nephews.

The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 14, 2007 at Adams Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Leon Rowland. Burial will be in the Taylorsville City Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at Adams Funeral Home.
Notes of sympathy may be e-mailed to the Barnes family at www.adamsfunerals.com.
Memorials may be given to the First Baptist Church Building Fund, P. O. Box 305, Taylorsville, NC 28681 or to Hospice of Alexander County, 50 Lucy Echerd Lane, Taylorsville, NC 28681.

Adams Funeral Home is serving the Barnes family.

The child nearest this birth year was named Etta in the 1920 census. She was 10 yrs. old at the time.

Rosetta "Nettie" Pennell and Garland Flake Barnes were married. Garland Flake Barnes, son of J. T. Barnes and Cora E. Burke, was born on 29 February 1888 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC. He registered for the WWI draft on 5 June 1917 in Helena, Lewis and Clark County, MT.⁴³⁹³⁵ He appeared in the census on 16 April 1930 in Sharpes Twp., Alexander Co., NC.⁴³⁹³⁶ Garland died of bi lateral broncho pneumonia on 21 February 1960 at the age of 71 at Broughton Hospital in Burke Co., NC and was buried at Taylorsville City Cemetery in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC on 23 February 1960.^43937,43938

Rosetta "Nettie" Pennell and Garland Flake Barnes had the following children: