HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY

Julia Murray Barnes

By Allan R. Ellenberger

You might be saying, “Who the hell is Julia Murray Barnes?” Hollywood Forever Cemetery has been called the “Cemetery of the Immortals” and is known for its celebrity and high-profile residents. However, there are many interesting, less well-known people that have made this their final resting place. Julia Murray Barnes is one of them.

Julia Murray Barnes was a “Real Daughter” of the American Revolution. A “Real Daughter” is one whose father “rendered aid to the cause of Independence” in the Revolutionary War.

Her father, Daniel Murray of Scotland, came to America in his youth and became a fervent worker for the cause of Independence. Murray, a close personal friend of George Washington, was living in Illinois and furnished supplies and munitions to General George Rogers Clark and his men as they marched across the state and captured Kaskaskia and Vincennes from the British. Murray was later shot and killed in a quarrel over some money affairs and is buried in Lebanon, Illinois.

Julia Murray was born in Baltimore, Maryland on August 5, 1817. When she was three years old, her father moved his family to Illinois, making Lebanon their home. There she married William Henry Barnes on October 23, 1836. He died in 1854.

Barnes eventually found her way to California, first living in Santa Rosa and then with her daughter, Mrs. S. A. Rendall, at 905 South Alvarado Street in Los Angeles, where she died 98 years ago today, on May 5, 1911. She was 97.

At the time of her death Julia Murray Barnes was one of only three surviving “Real Daughters.” Barnes sister, Caroline Murray Hypes, also a “Real Daughter,” had died three months earlier in Indiana.

Barnes was survived by four children, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A marker was placed on her grave by the Daughters of the American Revolution, naming her a “Real Daughter” of the fight for Independence.

Julia Murray Barnes’ grave is located in the southeastern section of the Chandler Gardens (Section 12) area of Hollywood Forever.

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BREAKING NEWS

Search Continues for Abducted 3-Year-Old

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) – Federal and local authorities kept up their search Tuesday for the 3-year-old boy snatched from his home by armed robbers who threatened to kill him.

After about 20 minutes, the men left with Briant, ordering his mother and the other children not to call police, the department said in a statement.

“They grabbed my kid, told me ‘I’m going to take the kid to Mexico and I’m going to kill him,”‘ the distraught Millan said in Spanish to reporters gathered in her front yard Monday night. “I said ‘Why? Don’t take my kid,’ and he told me to ‘turn around, I’m going to shoot you. Stop talking.”‘

The motive for the abduction was unknown.

“There has been no demand for ransom, there has been no contact with the family,” sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said Monday.

Miller said authorities along the Mexican border had been put on alert, and FBI investigators were helping in the investigation.

“It’s horrifying,” sheriff’s Lt. Rick Ells said. “I don’t think I could impress on you how rare a kidnapping like this is.”

Briant’s older brother said the men tried to steal the family car.

“Our keys were inside our car, cause we were about to leave,” 14-year-old Benjamin Barasa told a local television news station. “So they couldn’t find them, so they got mad. They took my little brother. He didn’t know what was happening so he wasn’t crying.”

One of the children — an 8-year-old boy — wiggled free from his ties and freed the rest of the family, authorities said.

Briant is the youngest of Millan’s seven children.

Her 16-year-old son was not home and another adult child does not live at home.

The boy’s father was at work at the time and the initial investigation pointed to the kidnappers being strangers to the family, Ells said.

The gunmen stole Millan’s cell phone, so she had to make the emergency call from a nearby liquor store, Ells said.

No witnesses saw the men’s vehicle.

The family lives in a modest, single-story home in a mainly lower-income area abutting the city of San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

Anyone with information about this case was urged to Sergeant Doug Hubbard or Detective Jon Minard with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department at (909) 387-3589.

SOURCE: www.knx1070.com

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OBITUARY

Dom DeLuise dies at 75; actor was a ‘naturally funny man’

The Brooklyn-born entertainer was a regular on TV variety shows in the 1960s and provided comedic support in movies for actors such as Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds.

By Dennis McLellan

Los Angeles Times

May 5, 2009

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Dom DeLuise, the mirthful, moon-faced comic actor who was a regular on Dean Martin’s television variety show in the 1970s and provided frequent comedic support in movies starring Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds, has died. He was 75.

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