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These three photos feature New York Giant players' wives, including Della Barnes of Jackson County, Kansas. Della was the wife of Virgil "Zeke" Barnes, a right-handed pitcher who played seven complete seasons at the major league level, primarily for the Giants.
Both Della and Virgil were reared in Jackson County. They married in July 1920 in Rochester, New York, where Virgil was playing for the minor league Rochester Hustlers. During the offseason, the couple lived in rural Jackson County. They had two children, James and June. In the mid-1930s, the family moved to Wichita, where Virgil died of a heart attack in 1958. Della died in 1984. Virgil and Della Barnes are buried in the Holton Cemetery.
Date: Between 1922 and 1928
Item Number: 227106
Call Number: B Barnes, Virgil *18, *19, *21
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 227106
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Sports - Baseball
Date - 1920s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Holton
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Jackson
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Places - Other States - New York
Type of Material - Photographs
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