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Barbergenealogy
genealogy of the Barber family of Texas, Alaska, and Idaho |
Histories
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| 1 |  | Barber Family in Louisiana Samuel Barber joins the Army in 1801, arrives in Louisiana by 1806, marries in 1813, and moves his family to Texas in 1829. Though written in 1997, this still represents my best thinking about Samuel Barber's life from the time he joined the Army in 1801 until he left Louisiana for Texas in 1829. | |
| 2 | | G. L. "Lee" Barber After growing up on the family farm in Bee County, Lee Barber marries a local girl and moves first to Barbers Hill then to west Texas. As a grocer, restaurateur, sheriff, and road contractor, he’s the first Barber ancestor who is not a rancher. | |
| 3 | | Jake Carothers's last letter to his wife. My great grandfather, A. V. "Jake" Carothers, wrote this short letter to his wife from the hospital. He died seven months later. | |
| 4 | | John Lyon v. Reuben Barrow lawsuit In 1807 my fifth great grandfather, Reuben Barrow, was sued by a neighbor, John Lyon, for defamation. Lyon asked for $500 compensation for a poem Barrow had written accusing him of hog stealing. Barrow countersued for $1000. Lyon won but the court records in Opelousas, Louisiana, don't say if he collected. Read the poem and some of the court records. | |
| 5 | | Memoirs of Cornelia Martha Lawrence Barber Cornelia Lawrence, who married Amos Joshua Barber, a first cousin to my third greatgrandfather John Albert Barber, "wrote" these memoirs reflecting life in East Texas where the Barbers lived in the last half of the nineteenth century. I transcribed and formatted these for the South Texas Genealogical Society, who published them in 1996. | |
| 6 | | Notes by Jen Carothers Virginia Carothers, "Aunt Jen," wrote these notes covering the events of her life from the 1880's to the early 1920's. Jen was an older sister to my grandmother, Elmah Carothers Barber. | |
| 7 | | Salomon Cohen van der Beugel's (Betsy Kokernot's brother's) Second Marriage This detailed marriage document tells much about Betsy's family in Amsterdam. It tells where Betsy's mother is buried and explains that her father, Nathan, had disappeared and could not be found. |
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| 8 | | Samuel in Maryland This, too, dates from 1997, and is what I know about Samuel's origins before he joined the army and the story picks up in "Barber Family in Louisiana." More recent work using DNA testing to discover our origins in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century have yielded some hints, but that is not covered here. | |
| 9 | | Summary Barber Family History "Cliff's Notes" version. Barber history in a small nutshell. | |
| 10 |  | Vernon and Gerry Barber Short history written for Volume One of the Bonner County History book. | |
| 11 |  | Vic and Elmah Barber Article I wrote for the Bonner County History Book. | |
| 12 | | Virginia to Louisiana Samuel Barber's earliest years. This was originally written in 1995. While the general history and the family stories here are correct, we now know that Samuel never joined any wagon train to Tennessee or Kentucky. He joined the U.S. Army in 1801 and eventually found himself in Louisiana, where he deserted. Read “Barber”Family in Louisiana" and “Samuel in Maryland” for more recent research. | |
| 13 | | Warrens, Barbers, and Indians A persistent Barber family legend holds that Samuel Barber's mother was a sister to Bunker Hill hero Joseph Warren and that she herself was once abducted by Indians and recovered. Here's what I learned back in 1993. |
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