Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse

Barnes was born on September 1, 1862, in Lobo, Canada West, to Thomas S. Stonehouse (1826-1882) and Sarah Barnes (1825-1883).^[1] He then married Dollie Arminta Barlow and she filed for divorce in 1916.^[1][2]

Babe Eckhart started what she believed was a relationship with him. She played the calliope in his circus. When he refused to marry her, she shot herself just outside his private railroad car in Idaho in 1919.^[3]

In 1922 his divorce from Dollie Arminta was granted. He then married Sarah Jane Hartigan and they had three children before they divorced. He lastly married Margaret Goldsboro.^[3]

In January 1929, he sold his circus to the American Circus Corporation.^[1]

He died on July 25, 1931, in Indio, California. He had been ill for most of the past year with pneumonia.^[1][4][5]