April 27, 2012 Gary Edward Barber is a very close match to James Barber for 67 markers, we just don't know exactly how. Sorry for the delay in updating this page, I have been building a Markham-Barber Family Tree page on Ancestry. I've pretty much gotten it built now, and I've found out a bunch of new things on the family, thanks to the green leaf HINTS Ancestry gives us. So I guess spending all that money is worth it. I wish I could say the same for the ipad I bought on March 15, 2012. I still don't know how to use it. It is gathering dust under my desk. Anyway, the "Who Do you Think you are" tv show on Rob Lowe tonight was very interesting. He found out that his ancestor was a Hessian soldier who fought for the British in the American Revolution, but, because he paid a tax to further the cause of the Revolution after staying in America, he was declared a patriot by the DAR. I wonder if the DAR had done the same if it wasn't a famous actor. And the person that contributed the document to the DAR was Josh Taylor, the young man who was the parliamentarian for the USGenWeb Project a few years ago.
March 2, 2012 Thanks to Gary Edward Barber, we know that William Barber (who married Rachel Daniell), Littleton Barber (son of Asa Barber?), Moses Barber of Chatham County NC, and our James Barber who married Penelope are all related. We are just not sure exactly how. But the William Barber who married Rachel Daniell is believed to be a son of William Barber Jr and the grandson of Wiliam Barber Sr of Chatham County, NC, who earlier lived in Orange and Onslow counties in NC. Asa and Moses are possibly also from the William Barber Sr family, and James is possibly a son of Aaron Barber, the brother of William Barber Sr.
We are waiting for Gary's 67 markers DNA test to come back. He matches with 35 out of 37 markers with Arthur, Jimmie, Charles, and Brian.
February 23, 2012 Gary Edward Barber, a descendant of William Barber and Rachell Daniell, is an exact match for 12 markers with Arthur Bud Barber II, John Wiley "Jack" Barber, Jimmie D. Barber, Donald Orville Barber, and Brian Keith Brooking. Arthur, Jack, Jimmie and Donald are all descendants of James and Penelope Barber, and Brian Keith is a descendant of Littleton Barber.
So we know that James Barber, William Barber, Moses Barber and Littleton Barber (possible son of Asa) are all related, most likely back in Chatham County, North Carolina. We are just not sure how, as yet.
January 21, 2012 Gary Edward Barber has received his kit from Family Tree DNA and will be mailing it back in on Monday. He is a descendant of William Barber and Rachel Daniell. So we will soon know if William Barber that married Rachel Daniell is related to James Barber who married Penelope.
December 15, 2011 Oh HAPPY DAY! I think I have discovered the parents and grandparents of George Barber, who died in Augusta County, Virginia in 1750!
I have also found a typed copy of the will of Matthew Patton, and added it to Chapter 1.
HOORAY!
December 13, 2011
I believe we have the parents of George Barber, who was born about 1720, died before 1750 in Augusta County, Virginia.
ENGLAND & WALES CHRISTENING RECORDS, 1530-1906 (on ancestry.com)
George Barber, born about 1720, christened 3 April 1720, Salisbury, Wiltshire County, England, son of George and Margret Barber.
HOORAY!
December 8, 2011
I have added new info to Chapter 4, thanks to Peni Andrews.
November 29, 2011
I have added new information to plyer.html, mostly to the family of William Cullen Barbour.
November 18, 2011
I have added extensive information to chapter 8.
November 15, 2011 I have added an obit and a tombstone picture to chapter10 for Saul Eugene Barber and his wife Imogene Ryan.
October 30, 2011 Here is a picture of Mickey Lee Barber.
October 26, 2011 I have added Lillie Spearen to chapter 14. She is Mickey Lee Barber's daughter.
October 20, 2011 Good riddance.
October 12, 2011 I have added a page on the Littleton Barber family, who is closely related to the James Barber-Penelope famiy, according to DNA testing.
October 7, 2011 Congratulations to Jon-Paul Stone and his bride Melody Reed! They are getting married today in Waikiki! Jon-Paul is a descendant of Silas Harrison Barber (chapter 14).
September 23, 2011 I added some Johnson family information and pictures to the George Reynolds/Sarah Barber family, thanks to Krista Schmidt.
September 16, 2011 I added some information to the Gray Barber family.
August 14, 2011 I have added a ton of info to chapter 4 concerning the family of Elizabeth Barber Stiles.
July 29, 2011 I added quite a bit to the Plyer Barber family, thanks to David Woldseth and Ruby Kelly.
July 22, 2011 Arthur Bud Barber Sr died July 20, 2011. He was the father of Sherry Grant and Arthur Bud Barber II. His obit. Also Chapter 15.
July 5, 2001 Folks, if you are going to make copies of my book, please do me the courtesy of leaving my name on it. If you are making a copy of the book I published in 1975, a simple note saying "Published by David W Morgan" will do. If you are copying from my online book, a url to my book at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/ would be much appreciated. Otherwise, it is outright theft.
June 23, 2011 I am currently uploading Records and Briefs of the Unites States Supreme Court, Vol 174, which concerns the Barber and Posey families, and the denial of their admission to the Creek Nation as Indian by blood, for most of them.
June 13, 2011 I recently made contact with two descendants of Benjamin A Barber, who was a brother of my James Monroe Barber. (chapter 14). They are Christle Speegle and Michelle Cagle. Yea!
May 30, 2011 Cousin Stephen P Barber earned his Ph.D in 2011 from Auburn University, and cousin Jeremy P Fyke earned his Ph.D in 2011 from Purdue University.
May 22, 2011 The world didn't end yesterday, so I feel free to post. I have been in contact with Tom Watson, a descendant of Plyer Barber and Amy thru their son Thomas Barber who married Elizabeth Langdon.
May 18, 2011 I have heard from Dr. Gary White, who is a descendant of Matthew Barber, chapter 2.
May 12, 2011 I've been doing extensive updates to the Gray Barber family, primarily to James S Barber.
May 1, 2011 Osama bin Laden is dead!
March 28, 2011 In the last few days, I have helped Thomas Markley find his Brooks ancestry. His is 74 and didn't much about it. I was able to help him, thanks to Google and Ancestry. That makes me feel very good. Plus, he is a cousin, so that is a bonus. He is a grandson of John Shay Barber and Flora Barsh, and is the biological brother of Linda Pollock White and Sally Brittingham. So we are all kin!
March 24, 2011 Linda White signed my guestbook. She is a granddaughter of John Shay Barber, so we are kin! Yea!
March 21, 2011 I have met Cynthia Eller Scott and Lisa Eller Jobe, both descendants of Samuel Garland Godsey and Susan Antoinette Barber, and they have helped me with additions to the family in chapter 2.
March 13, 2011 After receiving a tip about the Missouri Digital Archives and the death certificates there, I decided to do a search on Hugh Bassett, my great-great grandfather who died in Barry County in 1921. I could not find him, so I did a search on Bassett for the whole state, and came up with his son, George Washington Bassett, who died in Barry County in 1954. And it shows his father as Hugh Bassett and his mother as Gilly Ann Hood. There has been some dispute as to Gilly's maiden name, whether it was Hood or Roark. The informant on George's death certificate was his widow, Emma, so I am going to say that she would know the correct name of George's mother. So, the controversy ends at last!
Well, what do you know, Susan Peterson found the death certificate of Hugh Bassett for me. Same place, Missouri Digital Archives, I just missed it.
March 11, 2011 After spending about 40 hours offline last week because of power lines being down, Hawaii Electric apologized by sending me a gift certificate for $50 from American Express! I could spend it on anything except pay bills or get cash. So I went to Amazon and bought $50 worth of books!
March 5, 2011 After spending 24 hours with a crashed computer, then a day later losing electricity for 17 hours, things appear to be back to normal. I still left something unplugged on my computer. I am not sure what it is, but it doesn't seem to bother anything. The sound works and the printer works, so I guess I'll know when it crashes again. My next computer will be an ipad! On a genealogy note, I am adding a lot of info to chapter 8, thanks to Ike Porter.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/chapter8.html
February 23, 2011 I have heard from Nyla Newman Umari, also a descendant of George Patton Barber! Chapter 10
February 21, 2011 Mark Barber, a descendant of George Patton Barber, signed my guestbook!
January 30, 2011 I have just heard from Linda Woods Briggs, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin Aldridge and Lucile Alice Woods (chapter 9), who signed my guestbook.
January 26, 2011 I just found out I am related to Janet Finley Davis and Becky Striggow, two sisters I have been communicating with for years! DNA testing reveals that their first cousin, Brian (Barber) Brooking is an exact match with four of my Barber cousins. Janet and Becky know they are descended from Littleton Barber, and they think Littleton is descended either from Asa Barber or Joseph Barber, but are not sure. Oh happy day!
January 21, 2011 I received the book "Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas" by Robert K. DeArment today. Fascinating reading!
January 20, 2011 In the past two weeks I have received several books in the mail, mostly from Amazon. "Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle" by Sallie Reynolds Matthews. I had read this in the 1970s, but wanted to get another copy, having lost my original years ago. I also received "Lambshead Before Interwoven" by Frances Mayhugh Holden, which talks about things that Sallie Reynolds Matthews didn't talk about. John Larn, for instance. Today I received "Lambshead Legacy: The Ranch Diary of Watt R Matthews" edited by Janet M Neubegauer. Watkins Reynolds Matthews was the youngest son of Sallie Reynolds Matthews. He was born in 1899, graduated from Princeton in 1921, and died at a ripe old age in the 1990s. I also received "A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887" by Ty Cashion, which debunks some of the myths surrounding Fort Griffin. I look forward to reading that one. I am still waiting for one more book about John M Larn, who married into the Matthews family, and who was gunned down while a prisoner in the Albany, Texas jail.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/chapter7.html
January 19, 2011 I have just made contact with Marsha Griffeth Best of Florida, who is also a descendant of Susan Barber Griffith. I hope to have pictures soon!
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/susanbarbergriffith.html
December 28, 2010 Besides meeting Betty Sims Alexander, I have met several other descendants of Susan Barber Griffith, thanks to Facebook. I have met JG Sims and his brother Emery Spear Sims III, and their beautiful wives, and also Robert L Jones sent me a ton of material. I have also added a lot of information on Thomas Barber, son of Plyer, thru Thomas's son Thomas Young Barber, thanks to descendant Ruby M Kelley. In chapter 2, I have added pictures of Richard Rylee, his daughter Amy Dennis, Camisha Ostrom, Peggy Lynn Phillips and her daughter Evette Butler, and lots of descendants of Josiah Woods Barber.
December 10, 2010 I am currently splitting up chapter 1, it is just getting too big. I have created plyer.html and sarah.html as separate files, but still chapter 1. Also, I have finally made contact with Betty Sims Alexander, who has a web page on Ancestry. She is a descendant of Susan Barber Griffith.
December 7, 2010 I made contact with Robert Jones, a descendant of Susan Barber Griffith and her husband Allen Griffith, daughter and son-in-law of James and Penelope Barber. And a few days ago I connected with Michelle Barber, daughter of Thomas Kenyon Barber Jr, from the Hardy Jay Barber family.
December 6, 2010 I made contact with Crey Barber and his uncle Kenneth Lee Barber, both descendants of Richard Barber of Onslow County, North Carolina. We are hoping a DNA test will show that we are related to this family. And I was happy to connect these two gentlemen to each other, who didn't know each other. Plus a descendant of William Barber and Rachel Daniell has agreed to take a DNA test, so maybe that will be more good news.
November 25, 2010 Here it is, another Thanksgiving Day, and I am all alone. The story of my life. But I have a lot to be thankful for. I helped a young woman find her mother, that she had not seen since she was eleven years old, in 1985. I have added new people to the line of Josiah Woods Barber, and also to the line of Greensby Wetherford Barber. I have purchased a book by a descendant of Greensby Wetherford Barber, dealing with his ordeal with identity theft. A few days ago I found another descendant of Gray Barber and Charlotte Stedman, and more pictures!
Yes, there is a lot to be thankful for. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
November 2, 2010 Another new line has been added to Josiah Woods Barber, son of Matthew. I have added Susan Antoinette Barber as the daughter of Josiah Woods Barber. I am not sure, since she was already married at the time of the 1850 census, so was not listed with her parents. But she was living very close to both Josiah and to Matthew, so it does make sense. This adds a whole lot of relatives, mostley named Godsey. See chapter 2.
October 31, 2010 Adding a new line to Matthew Barber, thanks to Linda Allen Townsend Westbrook.
October 30, 2010 I now have a picture of Barber Watkins Reynolds, thanks to Jenny Orton. Not a great picture, it is from a photocopy, but it is a picture nonetheless.
October 29, 2010 Loretta Hill just contacted me today. Her husband is a descendant of Sarah Johnson, the granddaughter mentioned in the will of Margaret Watkins Barber. YEA
October 28, 2010 Today, I heard from Jennifer Hoy Orton, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin Reynolds, who was the son of George Reynolds and Sarah Barber. And she sent me a bunch of pictures!
October 27, 2010 At long last, I have discovered Sarah Johnson, the granddaughter of Margaret Watkins Barber, named in Margaret's will! She was the daughter of George Reynolds and Sarah Barber. This is all thanks to Coley Johnson's web page on Ancestry.
October 20, 2010 We have a new Barber line that has been proven thanks to DNA testing. The descendants of James Silas Barber and his brother Robert Henry Barber are proven to be descendants of James and Penelope Barber.
"In comparing 37 markers, the probability that Charles Stephen Barber and Mr Willis Mitchell Barber SR shared a common ancestor withn thelast 8 generations is 89.03%."
"In comparing 37 markers, the probability that Mr Arthur Bud Barber II and Mr Willis Mitchell Barber Sr shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 89.03%.
October 16, 2010 I have been adding information for Isaac Barber, son of Reuben Barber and grandson of Plyer Barber, thanks to Cherie Harris Ransom, and information for Burwell Barber, son of Plyer Barber, thanks to pattyworley75 on Ancestry.
October 10, 2010 I am going to go out on a limb and say that Gray Barber of Chatham County North Carolina was the father of James Barber of Chatham County NC and Clarke County, GA. My only reason is that James Barber named his first son Gray Barber. There are several other possibilities for the father of James, such as William, Richard, Aaron, and maybe Moses, but I have no evidence for them, either. I don't know how I will ever be able to prove this.
October 6, 2010 Finally, we have a breakthrough! At this url is the following:
http://www.ncgenweb.us/chatham/barber.htm CHATHAM COUNTY COURT OF PLEASE AND QUARTER SESSIONS TUESDAY, MAY SESSION, 1800 A Deed, JAMES BARBER and PENNY BARBER to JOSEPH PITTS duly proved by the oath of JOHN DAVIS
These are my ancestors, James and Penelope Barber! This proves that they were in Chatham County NC in 1800, and probably got married there, before moving to Clarke County, GA.
October 1, 2010 I updated information on Burwell Barber in
chapter one, thanks to this government document.
http://www.digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/p15012coll1&CISOPTR=7795&REC=19
September 29, 2010 I finally made contact with Rose Adams, whose husband is a descendant of Gray Barber.
September 24, 2010 I have made contact with Dee Barber Flournoy, a descendant of Gray Barber and Charlotte Stedman.
September 9, 2010 On Sept 7 I heard from long time friend Gary DeYong, who I had not heard from in years. And on Sept 9 I heard from even longer time friend Jerry Groves. It is amazing to find out what snail mail can accomplish. Some folks actually respond to it! And I now have their e-mail addresses.
August 25, 2010 I have removed the descendants of William Barber, oldest son of William H Barber and his wife Nancy, as they belong to a different Barber family. Very sorry to say goodbye to Karl Barbour, Rev Mark Barbour, Don Barbour and Donnie Barbour of Atlanta. William was still single in 1880 when he was 21 years old. I have not been able to trace him after that.
August 14, 2010 I have added a picture of Matt Wallace with Bill Posey, and also a picture of Matt Wallace with his sons. This was Bill Posey's brother-in-law. I also made contact with some of my Honeycutt cousins in California, and some of my Fyke cousins in Texas.
August 9, 2010 I have added pictures of Matthew Andrew Posey, Albert Washington Posey, Robert A Posey and Henry A Posey to chapter 18. They were the sons of William Andrew Jackson (Bill) Posey. Thanks to Bill Lehmann!
July 30, 2010 I have been updating the Montgomery, Hand, and Cromartie families in Chapter 13. Something I didn't know in 1975, when the 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 census were not available.
July 29, 2010 I think I have found two different branches of the family of James P(F) Barber, who basically did not know each other. James had two different families, and had no contact at all with the children from his first marriage. His second family is the family of Greg Peebles and his mother Jean. I think we can connect the son of Willis Albert Barber to Greg's family thru DNA testing. James P (F) Barber was the son of James Silas Barber and grandson of William H Barber of Lumpkin County, GA.
July 26, 2010 I have made contact with Greg Peebles, who is a descendant of William H Barber, a younger brother of my ancestor, Silas Harrison Barber. I hope to have a lot more information soon. See Chapter 11
July 22, 2010 I have updated Chapter 6 extensively, thanks to Linda Adams. Thirty years ago, I followed the wrong James Scott with census, records, which made for a big error in my book. That has now been corrected.
July 1, 2010 I just received the records of the Plyer Barber estate,thanks to Gina Thompson! Thanks! See Chapter 1.
June 28, 2010 I received the DAR papers of Gina Fuller Thompson today! Look at Chapter one.
May 30, 2010 I am currently trying to do some research on the family of William Barber and Rachel Daniell. And if we can get anyone to do a DNA test, to see if they are related to any of the Barber families I am working on.
May 19, 2010 A close friend of my niece, April, has contacted me. I am hoping I can learn a lot more from Kimberly.
May 7, 2010 I have found more descendants of Silas Harrison
Barber, thanks to Shirley Wurst. So I have added to Chapter 14. Plus here
is my class picture from the Madill OK high school class of 1961. I was
much better looking back then!
April 29, 2010 Thanks to FACEBOOK and Barbara Dunn, I have found some more relatives. Betty Jean Haynes Dunn, Shirley Ann Haynes Ezell and Nancy Haynes McCurley are sisters and the daughters of Ida Ruth Barber Haynes, granddaughters of Golden (Goley) Walker Barber and great granddaughters of Robert Henry (or Henry Robert) Barber. Robert H Barber was the youngest son of William H Barber and his wife Nancy. William was a brother of my great-great grandfather, Silas Harrison Barber.
April 27, 2010 Thanks to Nancy Mitchell Morris in Griffin, Georgia, I have a descendancy chart of William Barber, son of George Barber and Margaret Watkins. What a boatload of new information! You can find her data at williambarber.rtf.
April 20, 2010 Another descendant of William H Barber has made contact with me! It is just like Christmas around here!. Anyway, it was nice hearing from Jim Barber, hope to hear a lot more.
April 16, 2010 I have found another cousin! Don F. Barbour Jr is a great great grandson of William H Barber, William being a younger brother of Silas Harrison Barber!
April 10, 2010 I have updated the info on Chapter 4, about the Stiles family, thanks to Bev Barney's web site.
April 9, 2010 I received some information from the DAR, and was able to update Chapter 4 on the family of Elizabeth Barber Stiles somewhat.
April 5, 2010 I have just received some documentation papers from the DAR, and I am hoping to figure out who sent them in. Whoever it was, they were successful, and they are DAR #874122. She is a descendant of William Barber, son of George Barber and Margaret Watkins.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar1.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar2.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar3.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar4.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar5.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar6.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar7.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar8.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar9.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar10.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar11.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar12.jpg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/dar13.jpg
dar12 and dar13 are the most interesting.
April 1, 2010 I filled out the 2010 census on March 15, 2010 and mailed it back. So, today, I get ANOTHER form they tell me to fill out, it is federal law. And it is identical to the one I have already filled out. The federal government, you gotta luv em!
March 23, 2010 A most historic day! Health care is passed into law and signed by the president!
March 17, 2010 Happy St. Patrick's Day! I have updated the Enoch Hanson family, thanks to Ginger Perry.
March 8, 2010 Here is more up-to-date information on James Brewer and his wives.
March 3, 2010 I have added Gina Fuller Thompson's information to the family of Plyer Barber.
March 2, 2010 Thanks to Dixie Garner, I have discovered that one of my cousins, Dennis Letts, was a professsor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University at Durant for years, and after retiring became an actor. And his wife, Billie, is an award-winning novelist. And their son Tracy won the pulitzer prize and a Tony for his play, "August: Osage County".
February 13, 2010 I have updated some info on Samuel Spears and Georgia McLean, chapter 8, thanks to Tana Morgan (no relation)
January 25, 2010 All of my mail in my inbox has disappeared! Whoops! Gone! Vanished! Vamoose! Wow, I've had this computer 4 1/2 years and this has never happened before! Oh well, I have much of the mail in my sent mail box, and I do have the addresses stored in the computer. I just need to go lookup my cable/Time-Warner bill when the time comes.
December 15, 2009 My nephew, Kris Morgan, has sent me new pictures of his daughters. They are adorable!
December 10, 2009 A very cute picture of small Barber boys, Layne, Danny, Tony and Curtis, older brothers of Stephen P. Barber, descendants of Gray Barber.
December 4, 2009 I just added a picture of Amy Barber, niece of Arthur Barber II.
November 21, 2009 The newest Barber descendant was born today, November 21. He is Ethan Stone Pettit, the son of Brian and Stefani Barber Pettit and the grandson of Stephen Barber.
November 13, 2009 I have just heard from Rita Thomason, who is a descendant of Gray Barber! I have added her info.
November 11, 2009 I have run across an Ancestry page that says Penelope McClendon married Judge Stinson. But when I contacted the web page author, she says she has no proof that Penelope married anybody, she just saw it on another page and used it. That is the problem of using any information on an Ancestry page, nobody documents anything.
November 7, 2009 I now have a couple of pictures of Silas H. Barber, my great-great grandfather, at the time he was living in the Creek Nation with his oldest Son, Robert T. Barber, and Robert's family.
Silas sitting on the porch in a chair
Silas sitting in a chair to the far right
November 6, 2009 Here is the will of Jacob McClendon Sr.
For a larger picture, go here.
November 3, 2009 I was sent a file that states that Penelope McClendon was born 1767 in North Carolina. So this puts Penelope's age at a few years older than we had it. If she was married in early 1795, then she was 28 when she married James Barber. She would have been considered a spinster in those days. This file comes courtesy of Russell McClendon.
November 2, 2009 I believe we have found the maiden name of Penelope Barber, wife of James, thanks to Pamela Brewer Feezell.
The Early Records of Georgia, Volume I, Wilkes County Page 41--McCLENDON, JACOB, Sr. To son Isaac slave Ben. To son Samuel 500 acres on Reedy branch including the land where Samuel now lives and a slave Neroe. To son Travis a slave Primas. To son Dennis 650 acres part of which belonged to John Westbrooks, dec'd. and slaves Adam and Dinah. To son Amos 600 acres, residue of my land, slaves, cattle, etc., after his mother's death. Legacies to daus. Jemima, Laney, Penelope, Nancy and Bethaney. Isaac and Martha McClendon, my beloved wife, Excrs. Signed Aug. 16, 1791. Probated Apr.
I believe one name was left out of the above. Jacob McClendon Jr should have also been listed. And this will was probated in April 1793. Jacob Sr's wife was Mary Travis. Jacob Sr was born 1726 in either Chowan or Bertic County, NC.
Our Penelope was most likely not married when this was written in 1791, so she could fit in here as the daughter of Jacob McClendon, Sr. Oldest son Isaac McClendon was born in 1750, married Elizabeth Stribling. He served in the American Revolution from Wilkes County, GA.
I don't believe Jacob's daughter has been traced at all, so none of the researchers in that family know if Penelope lived past 1793, or if she got married. So, basically, she has been lost. Those researchers do know that Penelope's sister, Nancy McClendon, born in 1764, married William Heard. I wonder if one of my relatives, William H. Barber (son of Allen Barber) was named William Heard Barber. I thought I read that somewhere, but I have forgotten where.
The family of Jacob McClendon Sr has been pretty well traced, at least the males, through DNA testing. I contacted the administrator of the McClendon Family DNA project, Mary Becker, who is also a descendant of Jacob McClendon, Sr.
Although I did not ask her directly, she did not appear to have any knowledge of Penelope at all. So I think that is good news. I have found a ton of information on this family in the McClendon family forum on genforum, and the only mention of Penelope is that she was named in the will of Jacob Sr.
Anyway, if this is our ancestry, then we can say that Jacob's parents were Thomas McClendon and Elizabeth Bush and grandparents were Dennis Macklendon, born about 1650, Scotland,died about 1702, Perquimins County, North Carolina, and his wife Elizabeth (Dunn?)
October 31, 2009 I have just heard from a descendant of Cynthia Barber Brewer, the daughter of James and Penelope Barber!
Pamela Brewer Feezell has sent me some great pictures of her family.
Owen and Florrie Brewer, 50th wedding anniversary, 1968
Florrie at 100, with Owen Jr. and Estelle
October 30, 2009 I have just discovered that Shawn Fyke, my first cousin's son, married a 20 year old girl in July 2009. She is six years older than Shawn's oldest son!
October 27, 2009 I just heard from Ron and Linda McDuff, friends that I had not heard from since 1973. Amazing! I met them in Oklahoma City, but they live in Colorado now.
October 26, 2009 Jeanette Lucas Pursley has just been accepted into the DAR, NSDAR# 875305! Congratulatons, Jeanette! You can see her ancestry in chapter 9 of my book, some of it, anyway.
September 24, 2009 Thanks to Mary Cartmill of Oklahoma City for finding the high school ring I lost over 40 years ago! I thought it was long gone.
July 10, 2009 Dixie Hendrick Garner has sent me some great pictures of John Luther Garner, Worrell B. Garner and Craig Garner and their families! Here is a picture of John.
July 2, 2009 I have finally made contact with Dixie Hendrick Garner! Her husband is a descendant of BOTH George Barber-Margaret Watkins and James and Penelope Barber.
July 1, 2009 My uncle, Earl French Morgan, died Sunday, June 28, 2009. I just found out today. He was born in 1933.
Daily Oklahoman Online, Tuesday, June 30, 2009
HOBART
Morgan, Earl F., 76, maintenance supervisor, died Sunday. Services pending (People's Coopertive, Lone Wolf).
June 27, 2009 I am now convinced that James C Markham, born 1807, Nimrod Markham, born 1818, John Bunyon Markham, born 1819, and Carroll Markham, born 1822, were brothers. Nimrod and Carroll were living in the same counties at the same times for most of their lives.
June 6, 2009 I have made contact with Jeanette Pursley, a descendant of Louisa Marion Barber Lucas. Her grandfather, Milton Dee Lucas and wife Ida had EIGHTEEN children!
June 2, 2009 I am making progress on my Markham family. Frank James Markham Jr, Kim Markham Van Dyk, Harry Ezell Jr and me have gotten together on a private web site to include all the descendants of Nimrod and John Bunyon Markham. Hopefully we will be able to find more cousins.
May 26, 2009 I believe I am about to make contact with a descendant of John Luther Garner, who was the son of Susan L "Dink" Barber. Susan was the daughter of John C. Barber and Josephine Cordelia Lucas. So Susan has two different Barber families, that of James and Penelope Barber, and also of George Barber & Margaret Watkins.
May 24, 2009 I am wrong again. Alabama records show that Clara Thomas and Robert P Jones got married on 1 June 1900. So at the time that Robert T Jones says that his son is living at home with him on the June 2, 1900 census, the son is actually in Alabama getting married. LOL
May 23, 2009
After a few days research, I am now convinced that Mary Hanson Thomas
really was the grandmother of golfer Bobby Jones.
I was skeptical at first, especially when a web page on Ancestry showed
that Mary Hanson married Oliver Hillhouse Green in 1873. I thought that maybe
the legend wasn't accurate. And then I discovered Mary on the 1880 census of
Clarke County, Georgia as the wife of W B Thomas, and her daughter Ethel
Green was living with them! So it seemed a lot more possible.
I did some more research on Robert Tyre Jones, Jr, which showed that his
father was Robert P Jones and his mother was Clara Merrick Thomas. But
NOBODY on Ancestry had the parents of Clara. They all said that Clara was
born 1880-1883, which was shortly after the 1880 census.
I could not find W B Thomas on the 1900 or 1910 census, and I could not
find Clara, either.
And then Mary Stewart Lindsey sent me this newspaper clipping of Miss
Clara Thomas, the daughter of Judge William Thomas of Athens, Georgia, marrying
Robert Jones of Trenton, Georgia. And they got married at Auburn, Alabama,
where Clara was visiting. Mary has a web page on Ancestry called Walker
family of Longstreet
The newspaper clipping was dated June 2, but I do not know what year. It
could be either 1900 or 1901, since Bobby Jones was born March 1902. And
Clara's husband, Robert P. Jones, is listed on the 1900 census of Cherokee
County, Georgia as single and living with his father. And guess what! The
1900 census in Cherokee County was counted on June 2!
Anyway, I think they got married in 1901.
Plus, I now have a picture of Enoch Hanson's house on my web page, along
with Cindarilla's tombstone and Enoch's also.
So, it is good news!
May 21, 2009 I have made contact with Glenda Gerici, whose daughter is married to Emery Spear Sims III, a descendant of Allen W Griffith and Susan Barber.
May 15, 2009 I have made contact with Bruce Johnson, who has a great web page on Ancestry for the family of John Crawford Edwards, who married into the Francis Marion Hanson family.
May 11, 2009 I have received a photocopy of the book "ON RAILROAD STREET: THE STORY OF CARRIE HANSON BREEDLOVE AND HER FAMILY by Ron Williams. Plus, I have made contact with Kim Van Dyk, a descendant of Nimrod Markham. Plus I have heard from Ginger Perry and Janet Bradley Pickney, descendants of Enoch Hanson.
April 30, 2009 I have received a huge file on the descendants of Enoch Hanson and Cindarilla Barber, thanks to Jennifer Wilson. Whew!
April 21, 2009 I have just made contact with Ron Williams, a descendant of Enoch Hanson and his wife Cindarilla Barber. Yay!
April 20, 2009 I have added lots of descendants to the family of James and Penelope Barber. I found children of Cindarilla Barber and Enoch Hanson, Cynthia Barber and John Brewer, Jane Barber and Charles W. Wilson, Susan Barber and Allen Griffith, and for Griffin Barber.
April 16, 2009 After all of these years, I have found William Center and his wife Nancy Barber on a census. They were living in Atlanta, Georgia all those years, when I didn't even know their ages! And there is a connection to the Dinning family of Simpson County, Kentucky.
April 13, 2009 I have added a lot of information to chapters 5, 10, 12 and partII.
April 11, 2009 I found a passport photo of Wiley Crawford Barber Jr. Wow!
April 10, 2009 I have added a lot more census records to Chapter 5. I have also found two more sons of Reese Barber Jr and his wife Matilda Lester. They are Henry B. Barber and Cicero Barber.
April 9, 2009 Gail O'Donnell has signed my guestbook. She is a descendant of Spencer Barber (chapter 5).
March 31, 2009
The 67 markers for John (Jack) Wiley Barber are back. Here they are. 13-24-17-11-12-15-11-13-11-13-11-30 17-8-9-11-11-25-15-20-32-12-12-14-14 11-10-21-21-17-13-18-18-35-35-11-10 11-8-15-16-7-11-10-8-12-10 12-22-22-15-10-12-12-15-8-11-26-20-13 12-10-13-10-11-12-11 "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Jimmie D Barber and John W. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generatons is 83.46%." (two mismatches) "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber, Jr. and John W. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 83.46%." (two mismatches) "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Donald O. Barber and John W. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 83.46%." (I think this is in error, there are actually 3 mismatches between Donald Orville Barber and John Wiley Barber) "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Charles S. Barber and John W. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 66.67%." (3 mismatches) > > The 67 markers for Jimmie D. Barber are back, and he is an exact match > > for > > 67 markers with Arthur Bud Barber II. According to the Family Tree DNA > > page, > > > > "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber, Jr. > > and > > Jimmie D. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations > > is > > 98.96%" For 12 generations, the probability is 99.89%. > > > > Jimmie is a descendant of James and Penelope Barber through their son > > Gray > > Barber who married Charlotte Stedman, and Arthur Bud Barber II is a > > descendant of James and Penelope Barber through their son Allen Barber > > who > > married Frances H. Crawford. Arthur is the closest relative to me, we > > are > > both descendants of Silas Harrison Barber. > > > > Jimmie and Arthur are also one marker off from Donald Orville Barber and > > Charles Stephen Barber. Donald is a descendant of James and Penelope > > Barber > > through their son Allen Barber, grandson James M. Barber, great-grandson > > Joshua Heard Barber. Charles is from a completely line, that of Moses > > Barber > > who died about 1800 in Chatham County, North Carolina. > > > > > > > > The 67 markers for Arthur Bud Barber II are back, and he is a match > > > for 66 out of 67 markers for both Charles Stephen Barber and Donald > > > Orville Barber. Here is what the comparison chart says. > > > > > > "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber > > > Jr. and Charles S. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 > > > generations is 95.27%." > > > > > > And this one: > > > > > > "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber > > > Jr. and Donald O. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 > > > generations is 94.43%." > > > > > > I guess the difference comes from the fact that they differ on > > > different markers. Don O. Barber differs with Arthur and Charles on > > > marker 35, and Charles S. Barber differs with Arthur and Don on > > > marker 43. > > > > > > 67 markers of Arthur Bud Barber II, > > > I2a haplogroup > > > > > > 13-24-17-11-12-15-11-13-11-13-11-30 > > > 17-8-9-11-11-25-15-20-32-12-12-14-15 > > > 11-10-21-21-17-13-18-18-35-(36)-11-10 > > > 11-8-15-16-7-(11)-10-8-12-10 > > > 12-22-22-15-10-12-12-15-8-11-26-20-20-13 > > > 12-10-13-10-11-12-11 > > > > > > The (36) above is where the difference with Don Barber is. Don's > > > number at that marker is 37. > > > > > > The (11) above is where the difference with Charles Barber is. > > > Charles' > > > number at that marker is 12. > > > > > > Charles Stephen Barber is a descendant of Moses Barber, born about > > > 1755, > > > died 1800, Chatham County, North Carolina. Arthur Bud Barber II and > > > Donald > > > Orville Barber are descendants of James Barber, born about 1763, > > > Virginia, > > > died 1847, Clarke County, Georgia. > > > > > > David > > > > > > INTERPRETING GENETIC DISTANCE WITHIN SURNAME PROJECTS > > > > > > 67 MARKERS > > > > > > Distance Relatedness Explanation > > > 0 Very Tightly Related > > > > > > 67/67 Your perfect match means you share a common male ancestor > > > with a person who shares your surname (or variant). Your > > > relatedness is extremely close with the common ancestor > > > predicted, 50% of the time, in 3 generations or less and with a > > > 90% probability within 5 generations. Very few people achieve > > > this close level of a match. All confidence levels are well > > > within the time frame that surnames were adopted in Western > > > Europe. > > > > > > 1-2 Tightly Related > > > > > > 65-66/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another > > > male and you mismatch by only one or two 'points' at only one > > > marker. It's most likely that you matched 36/37 or 37/37 on a > > > previous Y-DNA test. Very few people achieve this close level > > > of a match. All confidence levels are well within the time > > > frame that surnames were adopted in Western Europe. > > > > > > 3-4 Related > > > > > > 63-64/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another > > > male and you mismatch by only three or four 'points?~@~Y. It's > > > most likely that you matched 24/25, 36/37 or 37/37 on previous > > > Y-DNA tests and your mismatch will be found within the second > > > panel at DYS #'s 458, 459 a, 459b, 449, or within 464 a-d, or > > > at DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb in our third panel of markers. > > > Your common ancestor is probably not extremely recent, but your > > > mismatch is likely within the range of most well established > > > surname lineages in Western Europe.
March 30, 2009 I have made contact with Joanne Johnson and Rosemary Leyland, the daughters of Frank B. Russell. Frank was a great help to me when I wrote the book on the Barber family. Here are some pictures of him and his wife Roberta, and also of Frank and Leith V. Watkins, the son of Dr. Reese Kelso Watkins.
March 17, 2009 I have extensively updated the Plyer Barber section of Chapter One.
March 16, 2009 The 37 marker results for Ryan Barbour are back, and hehas two mismatches with Newitt Henry Barbour, Jerry Lynne Barber, and James Philip Barber.
"In comparing 37 markers, the probability that James P. Barber and Ryan Barbour share a common ancestor with the last 8 generations is 72.02%."
"In comparing 37 markers, the probability that Newitt H. Barbour and Ryan Barbour shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 69.09%."
"In comparing 37 markers, the probability that Jerry L. Barber and Ryan Barbour shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 69.09%."
Ryan Barbour's numbers:
13-25-14-(10)-11-15-12-12-13-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-(26)-15-19-29-13-14-17-17
10-11-19-23-15-16-19-18-37-(38)-9-12
The 10 in Ryan Barbour's numbers is a 9 in James Philip Barber's numbers.
The 26 is a 25 in the other three.
The 38 is a 39 in Newitt's and Jerry Lynne's.
March 12, 2009 The 37 markers results for Newitt Henry Barbour are back, and he is an exact match with Jerry Lynne Barber. Newitt is a descendant of Plyer Barber and his wife Amy, and Jerry is a descendant of George Barber and his wife Margaret Watkins. They are sons of George Barber who died before 1750 in Augusta County, Virginia.
"In comparing 37 markers, the probability that Jerry L. Barber and Newitt H. Barbour shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 97.28%."
Here are the markers for Newitt and Jerry.
13-25-14-10-11-15-12-12-13-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-25-15-19-29-13-14-17-17
10-11-19-23-15-16-19-18-37-39-9-12
March 3, 2009 The 25 markers results of both Newitt Henry Barbour and Ryan Barbour are back.
There is an exact match for 25 markers between Newitt Henry Barbour and Jerry Lynne Barber. We can only hope that will hold true for 37 markers also. We will know in a few weeks. Here are the markers for Newitt Henry Barbour.
13-25-14-10-11-15-12-12-13-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-25-15-19-29-13-14-17-17
"In comparing 25 markers, the probability that Jerry L. Barber and Newitt H. Barbour shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 84.92%."
However, there is one marker difference between Newitt Henry Barber and Ryan Barber. They are both descendants of Plyer Barber, remember. Here are Ryan's markers.
13-25-14-10-11-15-12-12-13-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-26-15-19-29-13-14-17-17
The difference is DYS# 447. Newitt's number is 25 and Ryan's number is 26.
"In comparing 25, markers, the probability that Ryan Barbour and Newitt H. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 58.22%."
There is also one marker difference between Newitt Henry Barbour and James Philip Barber. Here is James's markers.
13-25-14-9-11-15-12-12-13-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-25-15-19-29-13-14-17-17
James has 9 at DYS# 391 and Newitt and others have 10 at that DYS.
"In comparing 25 markers, the probability that James P. Barber and Newitt H. Barbour shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 58.16%."
However, there are *2* markers difference between Ryan Barbour and James Philip Barber. James has a 9 at DYS# 391 and a 25 at DYS# 447. Ryan has a 10 at DYS# 391 and a 26 at DYS# 447.
"In comparing 25 markers, the probability that James P. Barber and Ryan Barbour shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 29.94%."
They are still related, but I am confused as to how to explain the mutations. This is out of my league. Hopefully, there will be no further mutations when Ryan gets to 37 markers.
It is my hope that Jerry Lynne Barber and Newitt Henry Barbour will eventually go to 67 markers. Hopefully, they will be exact for 67 markers also. Plus, going to 67 markers for everyone will help to determine a closer relationship for all. I have gone to 67 markers for 4 of *my* Barber cousins, and they are two markers off at the maximum.
Please see the chart below.
Interpreting Genetic Distance Within Surname Projects 25 Markers
DISTANCE: 0 - RELATED
Your perfect 25/25 match means you share a common male
ancestor with a person who shares your surname (or
variant). These two facts demonstrate your relatedness
DISTANCE: 1 - RELATED
You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male
and you mismatch by only one 'point' on only one marker.
For most closely related and same surnamed individuals, the
mismatch markers are usually either DYS 439 or DYS 385 A,
385 B,389-1 and 389-2 from our first panel of 12 markers,
and on the following from the second panel: DYS #'s 458 459
a 459b 449, 464 a-d, which have shown themselves to move
most rapidly. The probability of a close relationship is
very high.
DISTANCE: 2 - PROBABLY RELATED
You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male
and you mismatch by two 'points' among the 25 markers we
tested. For most closely related and same surnamed
individuals, the mismatch markers are usually either DYS
439 or DYS 385 A, 385 B,389-1 and 389-2 from our first
panel of 12 markers, and on the following from the second
panel: DYS #'s 458 459 a 459b 449, 464 a-d, which have
shown themselves to move most rapidly. The probability of a
close relationship is good, however your results show
mutations, and therefore more time between you and the
other same surnamed person.
March 1, 2009 Today is my birthday. I made it 66 years.
Heck
February 28, 2009 Cool lady
February 26, 2009
The 67 markers for Jimmie D. Barber are back, and he is an exact match for 67 markers with Arthur Bud Barber II. According to the Family Tree DNA page, "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber, Jr. and Jimmie D. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 98.96%" For 12 generations, the probability is 99.89%. Jimmie is a descendant of James and Penelope Barber through their son Gray Barber who married Charlotte Stedman, and Arthur Bud Barber II is a descendant of James and Penelope Barber through their son Allen Barber who married Frances H. Crawford. Arthur is the closest relative to me, we are both descendants of Silas Harrison Barber. Jimmie and Arthur are also one marker off from Donald Orville Barber and Charles Stephen Barber. Donald is a descendant of James and Penelope Barber through their son Allen Barber, grandson James M. Barber, great-grandson Joshua Heard Barber. Charles is from a completely line, that of Moses Barber who died about 1800 in Chatham County, North Carolina. > > The 67 markers for Arthur Bud Barber II are back, and he is a match > for 66 out of 67 markers for both Charles Stephen Barber and Donald > Orville Barber. Here is what the comparison chart says. > > "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber > Jr. and Charles S. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 > generations is 95.27%." > > And this one: > > "In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber > Jr. and Donald O. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 > generations is 94.43%." > > I guess the difference comes from the fact that they differ on > different markers. Don O. Barber differs with Arthur and Charles on > marker 35, and Charles S. Barber differs with Arthur and Don on > marker 43. > > 67 markers of Arthur Bud Barber II, > I2a haplogroup > > 13-24-17-11-12-15-11-13-11-13-11-30 > 17-8-9-11-11-25-15-20-32-12-12-14-15 > 11-10-21-21-17-13-18-18-35-(36)-11-10 > 11-8-15-16-7-(11)-10-8-12-10 > 12-22-22-15-10-12-12-15-8-11-26-20-20-13 > 12-10-13-10-11-12-11 > > The (36) above is where the difference with Don Barber is. Don's > number at that marker is 37. > > The (11) above is where the difference with Charles Barber is. Charles' > number at that marker is 12. > > Charles Stephen Barber is a descendant of Moses Barber, born about 1755, > died 1800, Chatham County, North Carolina. Arthur Bud Barber II and Donald > Orville Barber are descendants of James Barber, born about 1763, Virginia, > died 1847, Clarke County, Georgia. > > David > > INTERPRETING GENETIC DISTANCE WITHIN SURNAME PROJECTS > > 67 MARKERS > > Distance Relatedness Explanation > 0 Very Tightly Related > > 67/67 Your perfect match means you share a common male ancestor > with a person who shares your surname (or variant). Your > relatedness is extremely close with the common ancestor > predicted, 50% of the time, in 3 generations or less and with a > 90% probability within 5 generations. Very few people achieve > this close level of a match. All confidence levels are well > within the time frame that surnames were adopted in Western > Europe. > > 1-2 Tightly Related > > 65-66/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another > male and you mismatch by only one or two 'points' at only one > marker. It's most likely that you matched 36/37 or 37/37 on a > previous Y-DNA test. Very few people achieve this close level > of a match. All confidence levels are well within the time > frame that surnames were adopted in Western Europe.
February 18, 2009 I believe that Berryman Absher was the father of my ancestor, Mary Jane Absher. Mary Jane married John Travelstead in 1849 in Sumner County, Tennessee. She was living next door to B. Abshire, who has to be Berryman Absher, born about 1810 in Kentucky. Berryman Absher was the son of John Absher and his wife Nancy Barnhart. Berryman was the brother of Mary Absher. Mary had about 8 children, including Litle Absher, but no husband. Litle was the grandfather of Dr. Lee Alton Absher, who wrote the book, "Some Early Settlers of Upper Sumner County, Tennessee. Litle's wife was Mahala Durham, the daughter of James Durham and Lydia Gillespie, and the younger sister of my ancestor, Polly Ann Durham that married James David Graves. Polly Ann's oldest son, James Carroll Graves, married Rebecca E. Travelstead, who was the oldest child of John Travelstead and Mary Jane Absher.
1850 Census, Allen County, Kentucky, 24 Sep 1850 (page 147-Ancestry's images) Andrew Travelstead 32 m farming KY Doria Travelstead 22 f John Travelstead 23 m farming KY Mary Jane Travelstead 16 f B. Abshire 40 m farming KY M. Abshire 39 f N. L. Abshire 14 f A. A. Abshire 12 J. D. Abshire 2
February 11, 2009 I am going to have to back off the info I thought I had discovered yesterday. Frederick Travelstead was the father of a different John Travelstead, not mine.
February 10, 2009 I have added new information on Absher and Travelstead to Thomas and Naomi Gillespie. I just found out that my John Travelstead was a son of Frederick Travelstead and his wife Mary Burton. Frederick was German and Mary was Irish. THAT expains it!
February 3, 2009 In 1950, I lived next door to Buddy Holley in Lubbock, Texas. After we left Lubbock at Christmas time, I never saw Buddy again. Fifty years ago today, he died in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa.
January 23, 2009 I have added lots of census images, mostly to chapter 16. I have also added a page to chapter 16 for my Markham and Bassett families.
January 22, 2009 I added a photo of Mary Ella Coker Barber Ridley, the widow of Hardy J. Barber, and a photo of Ella with her second husband Tom Ridley to chapter 14. Photos are courtesy of Mary Ann Hesselgesser.
January 21, 2009 I just added a picture of Silas H. Barber's tombstone to Chapter 14, thanks to Renee Kernan.
January 20, 2009 President Obama taking the oath of office on the Lincoln Bible.
January 18, 2009 My aunt died January 10, 2009. Here is her obit from the Daily Oklahoman.
Jeanice Sue (Hosler) Morgan, 79, of Midwest City, has gone to be with her Lord and Savior. She ascended on January 10, 2009. Jeanice, one of 9 children, was born March 24, 1929 in Cordell, Oklahoma. Jeanice met and married her husband and life-long love, Eddie L. Morgan, on June 11, 1949 in Oklahoma City. Jeanice worked in the Private Sector as well as the State government, primarily as a bookkeeper when needed by her family. But her primary passion was for her Lord, husband and family. Her caring nature and true concern in making a difference for those she touched and loved are how she earned her wings. She will be truly missed. Jeanice's survivors include her husband of 60 years, Eddie Morgan, her sons Mark and Nelson Morgan, her daughter Rebecca Breen and her husband Shawn Breen, as well as granddaughters Miranda Morgan Morgan, Sarah and Amanda Breen and grandson Jordan Morgan. Services for Jeanice will be held 10:00 AM, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009 at the Eastside Church of Christ with burial in Arlington Memory Gardens Cemetery.January 17, 2009 This is Michelle Obama's 45th birthday. Happy Birthday!
January 7, 2009 Here is a most historic photograph, taken at the White House on January 7, 2009.
January 5, 2009 I have discovered Silas H. Barber on the 1910 census of Oklahoma, which shows that he was living in Bixby, Tulsa County, Oklahoma with his son Robert. He died a few months later. So I was wrong in saying that he died in Kiefer, Creek County.
December 31, 2008
Got a very nice Christmas greeting from my nephew Kris Morgan and his
family. And since I got my new scanner/printer/copier today, I got it
uploaded to the web page. So here it is.
December 29, 2008 Happy Holidays! The Obama family and all of us that live on the island of Oahu survived the great blackout of 2008!
December 3, 2008 The 67 markers for Arthur Bud Barber II are back, and he is a match for 66 out of 67 markers for both Charles Stephen Barber and Donald Orville Barber. Here is what the comparison chart says.
"In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber Jr. and Charles S. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 95.27%."
And this one:
"In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Mr. Arthur B. Barber Jr. and Donald O. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 94.43%."
I guess the difference comes from the fact that they differ on different markers. Don O. Barber differs with Arthur and Charles on marker 35, and Charles S. Barber differs with Arthur and Don on marker 43.
67 markers of Arthur Bud Barber II, I2a haplogroup 13-24-17-11-12-15-11-13-11-13-11-30 17-8-9-11-11-25-15-20-32-12-12-14-15 11-10-21-21-17-13-18-18-35-(36)-11-10 11-8-15-16-7-(11)-10-8-12-10 12-22-22-15-10-12-12-15-8-11-26-20-20-13 12-10-13-10-11-12-11
The (36) above is where the difference with Don Barber is. Don's number at that marker is 37.
The (11) above is where the difference with Charles Barber is. Charles' number at that marker is 12.
? David
INTERPRETING GENETIC DISTANCE WITHIN SURNAME PROJECTS
67 MARKERS
Distance Relatedness Explanation
0 Very Tightly Related
67/67 Your perfect match means you share a common male ancestor
with a person who shares your surname (or variant). Your
relatedness is extremely close with the common ancestor
predicted, 50% of the time, in 3 generations or less and with a
90% probability within 5 generations. Very few people achieve
this close level of a match. All confidence levels are well
within the time frame that surnames were adopted in Western
Europe.
1-2 Tightly Related
65-66/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another
male and you mismatch by only one or two 'points' at only one
marker. It's most likely that you matched 36/37 or 37/37 on a
previous Y-DNA test. Very few people achieve this close level
of a match. All confidence levels are well within the time
frame that surnames were adopted in Western Europe.
3-4 Related
63-64/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another
male and you mismatch by only three or four 'points?~@~Y. It's
most likely that you matched 24/25, 36/37 or 37/37 on previous
Y-DNA tests and your mismatch will be found within the second
panel at DYS #'s 458, 459 a, 459b, 449, or within 464 a-d, or
at DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb in our third panel of markers.
Your common ancestor is probably not extremely recent, but your
mismatch is likely within the range of most well established
surname lineages in Western Europe.
5-6 Related
61-62/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another
male and you mismatch by five or six 'points'. Because of the
volatility within some of the markers this is slightly tighter
than being 11/12, 23/25, or 33/37, and it's most likely that
you matched closely on previous Y-DNA tests. It's most likely
that you matched 24/25, 36/37 or 37/37 on previous Y-DNA tests
and your mismatch will be found within the second panel at DYS
#'s 458, 459 a, 459b, 449, or within 464 a-d, or at DYS 576,
570, CDYa or CDYb in our third panel of markers. Your common
ancestor is not very recent, but your mismatch is likely within
the range of most well established surname lineages in Western
Europe.
7 Probably Related
60/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another
male and you mismatch by seven 'points'. Because of the
volatility within some of the markers this is about the same as
being 11/12 and it's most likely that you matched 23/25 or
24/25 or 33-34/37 on previous Y-DNA tests. If several or many
generations have passed it is likely that these two lines are
related through other family members. The only way to confirm
is to test additional family lines and find where the mutations
took place. Only by testing additional family members can you
find the person in between each of you...this 'in betweener'
becomes essential for you to find, and without him the
possibility of a match exists, but further evidence must be
pursued. If you test additional individuals you will most
likely find that their DNA falls in-between the persons who are
7 apart demonstrating relatedness within this family cluster or
haplotype.
November 20, 2008 I have added a picture of me with some of my neighbors.
I am in the back row, on the right
November 19, 2008 I added a couple of pictures to chapter 14. One is a picture of the Marquis Lafayette Coker - Martha Susan "Sudie" Barber family, and the other is of the Coker Family Reunion in Jones County, Texas in 1914. Besides Marquis, also pictured is Mary Ella Coker Barber, widow of Hardy J. Barber. The pictures are from Renee Kernan.
November 7, 2008 My Hero
November 2, 2008 My name is in an advertisement today, voting NO on the Constitutional Convention. I don't see the reason to spend millions of dollars on something that might make worse the government we have. You can see it here
October 27, 2008 A great big THANK YOU to John Wiley (Jack) Barber of Georgia for his financial assistance! Thanks, Jack!
I updated the descendants of James and Penelope Barber somewhat.
October 26, 2008 I updated chapter 6, thanks to Linda Adams, a Scott descendant.
October 10, 2008 The 37 markers results for Kristoffer Scott Morgan are in, and he is two markers off from me. hmmm. This is my brother's son we are talking about!
"In comparing 37 markers, the probability that David W. Morgan and Kristoffer S. Morgan shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 70.79%."
Kristoffer's markers
13-23-14-10-11-16-12-12-11-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-26-14-19-29-15-15-17-18
11-11-19-22-16-14-17-17-36-36-11-12
David's markers
13-23-14-10-11-16-12-12-11-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-26-14-19-29-15-15-17-18
10-11-19-22-15-14-16-17-36-36-12-12
October 1, 2008 The 37 marker results for James Philip Barber are in. He is two markers off from Jerry Lynne Barber.
13-15-14-9-11-15-12-12-13-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-25-15-19-29-13-14-17-17
10-11-19-22-15-16-19-18-37-38-9-12
"In comparing 37 markers, the probability that James P. Barber and Jerry L. Barber shared a common ancestor within 8 generations is 69.05%
September 25, 2008 I updated chapter 5, thanks to Kathleen Barber Thomas.
September 18, 2008 The 25 marker results for James Philip Barber are in and he is one marker off from Jerry Lynne Barber.
13-25-14-9-11-15-12-12-13-13-13-29
17-9-10-11-11-25-15-19-29-13-14-17-17
"In comparing 25 markers, the probability that James P. Barber and Jerry L. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 58.16%"
the 37 marker results for James Philip Barber should be in soon.
September 17, 2008 The 12 marker results for James Philip Barber are in, and he is one marker off with Ryan Barbour and Newitt Barbour.
13-25-14-9-11-15-12-12-13-13-13-29
The 9 above is a 10 for the others. The 25 marker and 37 marker results should be in soon.
September 4, 2008 I have updated Chapter 8, mostly on the McLean family, thanks to Richard McLean and Linda Blum-Barton.
September 3, 2008 Tammy of the Marcum Family DNA Project has paid to have Kris Morgan's DNA upgraded to 37 markers. Thanks!
August 30, 2008 Family Tree DNA has a sale on their 37 marker tests that ends on September 30. It is on sale for new people for $119. This normally costs $189. so this is a big savings. You can read more about it at http://www.worldfamilies.net/summersale/.
August 29, 2008 I added the full name of H. H. McLean (Hiram Hampton) to chapter 8, and also the fact that he was a lawyer.
August 21, 2008 James Philip Barber has sent in his kit, and his DNA results should be available around September 20. He is a descendant of Reese Barber and Catherine Reynolds.
August 20, 2008 I am learning how to use the Rootsweb file manager, after all these years. No more ftp, I can edit files online. Yea!
August 14, 2008 The 12 marker results for Newitt Henry Barbour are back, and he is an exact match with Ryan Barbour and Jerry Lynne Barber. Newitt and Ryan are descendants of Plyer Barber, brother of George and Margaret Watkins Barber, and Jerry Lynne is a descendant of George and Margaret Watkins Barber. Plus James Philip Barber has just sent in his DNA test this week. He is a descendant of George and Margaret Watkins Barber.
August 13, 2008 Kristoffer Morgan's DNA results are back for 25 markers, and he is an exact match with me. Whew, that's a relief!
I also added a picture of Stephen P. Barber in the chapter on James and Penelope Barber.
August 12, 2008 The 37 marker results for Khris Markham are back, and he is an exact match with Thomas Allen Markham, Warren Franklin Marcum, Robert Marcum III, and Barry Ellis Marcum.
I have heard from Kathleen Barber Thomas and her brother, James Philip Barber, sent his kit back in yesterday. They are descendants of Reese Barber and George Barber-Margaret Watkins.
August 11, 2008 I just received the James Barber Estate settlement from Stephen P. Barber. It shows that Allen Barber's legacy was retained by Griffin Barber for insolvency.
August 9, 2008 Wow, I just heard from Stephen P. Barber, who I had not heard from in years! In fact, I thought he had left this earth. It was so good to hear from him!
August 7, 2008 Here is the statement on Donald O. Barber's personal DNA page.
In comparing 67 markers, the probability that Donald O. Barber and Charles S. Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 83.96%.
August 5, 2008 Charles Stephen Barber has gone for 67 markers. He is just two markers off from Donald O. Barber.
Here are the 67 markers of Charles Stephen Barber.
13 24 17 11 12 15 11 13 11 13 11 30
17 8 9 11 11 25 15 20 32 12 12 14 15
11 10 21 21 17 13 18 18 35 36 11 10
--
11 8 15 16 7 12 10 8 12 10
--
12 22 22 15 10 12 12 15 8 11 26 20
13 12 10 13 10 11 12 11
Here are the 67 markers of Donald Orville Barber.
13 24 17 11 12 15 11 13 11 13 11 30
17 8 9 11 11 25 15 20 32 12 12 14 15
11 10 21 21 17 13 18 18 35 37 11 10
--
11 8 15 16 7 11 10 8 12 10
--
12 22 22 15 10 12 12 15 8 11 26 20
13 12 10 13 10 11 12 11
The haplogroup for all our Barbers is I2a.
Here is an explanation for 67 marker matches from Family Tree DNA.
INTERPRETING GENETIC DISTANCE WITHIN SURNAME PROJECTS
67 MARKERS
Distance Relatedness Explanation
0 Very Tightly Related
67/67 Your perfect match means you share a common male ancestor with
a person who shares your surname (or variant). Your relatedness is
extremely close with the common ancestor predicted, 50% of the time,
in 3 generations or less and with a 90% probability within 5
generations. Very few people achieve this close level of a match. All
confidence levels are well within the time frame that surnames were
adopted in Western Europe.
1-2 Tightly Related
65-66/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male
and you mismatch by only one or two 'points' at only one marker. It's
most likely that you matched 36/37 or 37/37 on a previous Y-DNA test.
Very few people achieve this close level of a match. All confidence
levels are well within the time frame that surnames were adopted in
Western Europe.
3-4 Related
63-64/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male
and you mismatch by only three or four 'points?~@~Y. It's most likely
that you matched 24/25, 36/37 or 37/37 on previous Y-DNA tests and
your mismatch will be found within the second panel at DYS #'s 458,
459 a, 459b, 449, or within 464 a-d, or at DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb
in our third panel of markers. Your common ancestor is probably not
extremely recent, but your mismatch is likely within the range of
most well established surname lineages in Western Europe.
5-6 Related
61-62/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male
and you mismatch by five or six 'points'. Because of the volatility
within some of the markers this is slightly tighter than being 11/12,
23/25, or 33/37, and it's most likely that you matched closely on
previous Y-DNA tests. It's most likely that you matched 24/25, 36/37
or 37/37 on previous Y-DNA tests and your mismatch will be found
within the second panel at DYS #'s 458, 459 a, 459b, 449, or within
464 a-d, or at DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb in our third panel of
markers. Your common ancestor is not very recent, but your mismatch
is likely within the range of most well established surname lineages
in Western Europe.
7 Probably Related
60/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male and
you mismatch by seven 'points'. Because of the volatility within some
of the markers this is about the same as being 11/12 and it's most
likely that you matched 23/25 or 24/25 or 33-34/37 on previous Y-DNA
tests. If several or many generations have passed it is likely that
these two lines are related through other family members. The only
way to confirm is to test additional family lines and find where the
mutations took place. Only by testing additional family members can
you find the person in between each of you...this 'in betweener'
becomes essential for you to find, and without him the possibility of
a match exists, but further evidence must be pursued. If you test
additional individuals you will most likely find that their DNA falls
in-between the persons who are 7 apart demonstrating relatedness
within this family cluster or haplotype.
8-9 Only Possibly Related
58-59/67 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male
and you mismatch by eight or nine ?~@~Xpoints?~@~Y. It is most likely
that you did not match 24-25/25 or 35-37/37 in previous Y-DNA tests.
If several or many generations have passed it is possible that you
are related through other family members. The only way to confirm or
deny is to test additional family lines and find where the mutation
took place. Only by testing additional family members can you find
the person in between each of you...this 'in betweener' becomes
essential for you to find, and without him only the possibility of a
match exists, but further evidence should be pursued. If you test
additional individuals you must find the person whose DNA results
falls in-between the persons that are 8 or 9 apart demonstrating
relatedness within this family cluster or haplotype.
10-11 Not Related
56-57/67 is too far off to be considered related, unless you can find
an ?~@~\in-betweener?~@~Y as for determining ?~@~XOnly Possibly
Related,?~@~Y above. It is important to determine what set of results
most typifies the largest number members of the group you are 'close'
to matching. You may be 57/67 with an individual, but 61/67 with the
center of the group, and your potential relatedness to him is through
the center of the group.
Beyond 11 Not Related
55/67 You are not related and the odds greatly favor that you have
not shared a common male ancestor with this person within thousands
of years.
July 31, 2008 After 3 days of fighting vicious posts in my guestbook attempting to spread viruses, I think I have finally figured out how to block them from posting. Jerks like this deserve a slow, painful death.
July 21, 2008 The 25 marker results for Frank James Markham are
in, and he is an exact match with me. You can see this at:
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/m/marcum/results.html
Well, the 37 markers results for Frank are in, and there are two mutations for 37 markers.
My 37 markers 13 23 14 10 11 16 12 12 11 13 13 29 17 9 10 11 11 26 14 19 29 15 15 17 18 11 11 19 22 15 14 16 17 36 36 12 12 Frank's 37 markers 13 23 14 10 11 16 12 12 11 13 13 29 17 9 10 11 11 26 14 19 29 15 15 17 18 11 11 19 22 [16] 14 16 17 36 [39] 12 12 I don't know what that means.
July 18, 2008 I just discovered the testimony of James M Barber online, thanks to the National Archives and http://www.footnote.com/. Unfortunately, the images are very large. If you print them out, they might be more readable. See Chapter 15
July 15, 2008 The 37 marker results for John (Jack) Wiley Barber are in, and they are here.
13 24 17 11 12 15 11 13 11 13 11 30 17 8 9 11 11 25 15 20 32 12 12 14 14 11 10 21 21 17 13 18 18 35 35 11 10
Jack is an exact match for 12 markers with Arthur Bud Barber II, Jimmie D. Barber, Charles Stephen Barber, and Donald Orville Barber. He is an exact match for 24 of 25 markers with Arthur Bud Barber II, Jimmie D. Barber, Charles Stephen Barber and Donald Orville Barber. He is an exact match for 35 of 37 markers with Arthur Bud Barber II, Jimmie D. Barber, and Charles Stephen Barber. He is an exact match for 34 or 37 markers with Donald Orville Barber.
The 67 marker results for Donald Orville Barber are in, and Don is an exact match for 36 of 37 markers with Arthur Bud Barber II, Jimmie D. Barber, and Charles Stephen Barber. He is an exact match for 34 of 37 markers with Jack Wiley Barber. No one else has tested for 67 markers, so we have no one to compare those with. Here are Don's 67 markers.
13 24 17 11 12 15 11 13 11 13 11 30 17 8 9 11 11 25 15 20 32 12 12 14 15 11 10 21 21 17 13 18 18 35 37 11 10 11 8 15 16 7 11 10 8 12 10 12 22 22 15 10 12 12 15 8 11 26 20 13 12 10 13 10 11 12 11
The haplogroup for all our Barbers is I2a.
July 13, 2008 Here is a picture of Donna and John Gingrich's house in Houston, Texas.
July 11, 2008 A lot of pictures of my sister's trip to Hawaii have been developed, and I have some of them posted here.
David & Donna, the Obama Twins
Donna, in back row in hat, learning Tahitian hula
Donna at TheBoat........................................Donna & June at Waikiki
Donna at City Hall ........................................Donna at Diamond Head
Donna at Dole Plantation................................Donna at the Arizona Memorial
pineapples..............................................My apartment complex
hut...........................................................My neighbors
hula at Iolani Palace...................................Goodbye at the airport
Plus a few pictures of Donna and me when we were very small
July 6, 2008 I have updated Chapter 16, thanks to my sister, Donna Gingrich, and my aunt, Leta Fyke.
June 29, 2008 I finally figured out how to use my scanner! So I scanned a picture of my sister, Donna Gingrich, and me at the Dole Plantation the past Tuesday.
David & Donna in Hawaii, June 24, 2008
June 28, 2008 After being homeless for 3 years in California and for 12 years in Hawaii, before finally getting a nice place to live, I am not used to people being overly generous. So I am truly touched to receive a letter from a distant cousin today, with a check for $100 enclosed. I have never met him, he lives in Georgia, but he heard my sister was out here on vacation, and he wanted to treat us to dinner. I am overwhelmed with this gesture.
June 27, 2008 The results for Khris Markham, a descendant of Rev. Anderson Markham, are in, and he is an exact match for 25 markers with SIX other people named Markham or Marcum. Some people are SO lucky!
Results are here:
http://worldfamilies.net/surnames/m/marcum/results.html
June 19, 2008 I have added a few links to the 1900 census of the Creek Nation. You can find the entire census here:
June 16, 2008 I got my $300 tax rebate check today. Yea! This will really help when my sister comes to Hawaii for a vacation next week. I have not seen her in 22 years!
June 15, 2008 Frank James Markham just let me know that he is going to 37 markers. Yippee!
June 9, 2008 I have just heard from Diane Markham, who signed my guestbook. Hopefully, she will fill me in on her family.
June 5, 2008 I have just been notified by John (Jack) Wiley Barber that he is upgrading to 37 markers, and Don O. Barber has just told me that he is upgrading to 67 markers. WOW!
June 4, 2008 We have the results back, and Charles Stephen Barber is an exact match for 37 markers with Arthur Bud Barber II and Jimmie D. Barber, and is one marker off with Don O. Barber for 37 markers. This means that the probability that Jimmie D. Barber, Arthur Bud Barber II, and Charles Stephen Barber shared a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 97.28%. Charles is a descendant of Moses Barber and Jimmie and Arthur are descendants of James Barber. It is highly likely that Moses and James are brothers, and we need to find their father.
Plus, the 12 marker results for my nephew, Kristoffer Scott Morgan are back, and he is an exact match with me. That makes sense. LOL
June 3, 2008 I am busily updating the Gray Barber family that Jim Wilson has sent me. You can see it at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/part2.html
Plus, Jim has sent me some photos of Barber graves at Harkey's Chapel Methodist Church cemetery in St. Clair County, Alabama, plus a picture of the sign at Harkey's Chapel.
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harkeyschapelsign.jpg
June 2, 2008 I have heard from Jim Wilson, a great-grandson of Charlotte Barber. Her father was James S. Barber, and grandfather was Gray Barber. Hopefully, I will have the info on Charlotte and her husband John Wesley Fugitt soon.
Here is a photo of Charlotte and her husband, plus more pictures:
Tombstone of Charlotte Fugitt and John Wesley Fugitt:
fugitt.jpg (over 1 MB)
Plus, I have updated chapter 15 on the Wood family. It turns out that we are not descended from Charles Wood and his wife Sara Brightwell after all.
May 28, 2008 I have added on to Chapter 1, a section on Plyer Barber, brother of Captain George Barber, and a section on Sarah Barber who married Reese Watkins. Sarah was a sister of Captain George Barber.
May 27, 2008 We have the 37 marker results back for Jimmie D. Barber and Don O. Barber. Jimmie D. Barber, a descendant of Gray Barber, is an exact match with Arthur Bud Barber II, a descendant of Allen Barber. Don Barber is one marker off for 37 markers. That is not a big deal to have one or two mutations between father and son for 37 markers. We are still waiting for the 37 markers results of Charles Stephen Barber.
Kathleen Barber signed my guestbook! She is a descendant of Reese Barber, son of George and Margaret Watkins Barber. Hopefully, one of her brothers will agree to do the DNA test.
May 23, 2008 The results of Don O. Barber's DNA test for 25 markers is back, and he is an exact match with Arthur Bud Barber II, Jimmie D. Barber, and Charles Stephen Barber. So we are still waiting for the 37 marker results of Charles Stephen Barber.
May 21, 2008 The results of Jimmie Barber's DNA test for 25 markers is back, and he is an exact match with Arthur Bud Barber II, a descendant of Silas Harrison Barber, and Charles Stephen Barber, a descendant of Moses Barber. The results of his test for 37 markers should be back next week.
May 17, 2008 I have added a guestbook. I hope you will take advantage of it. I would like to hear about your family and ancestors. To view the posts others have made, just scroll down past the sign guestbook part.
May 15, 2008 At last! We have an exact match for 12 markers between a descendant of George Barber-Margaret Watkins and a descendant of Plyer Barber. Jerry Lynne Barber is a descendant of Dr. George Perry Barber; George Barber-Elizabeth Reynolds; George Barber-Margaret Watkins; and George Barber-Elizabeth. So, even though Dr. George Perry Barber said this in his genealogy, and I included it in my book, this is the first actual proof. So far, it is just for 12 markers, but Jerry Lynne already has his results for 37 markers, and I believe Ryan Barbour, a descendant of Plyer Barber and his parents George Barber-Elizabeth, has applied for his 37 marker test. Yippee!
May 8, 2008 I have now recieved information about the children of James Barber, and his will, and am substantially revising my book. I have added a chapter on James Barber, called Part II, Descendants of James and Penelope Barber. This info comes from Katherine Barber, whose husband is a descendant of Gray Barber.
May 7, 2008 Family Tree DNA has received the kit from Kris Morgan, so we should know his results in about a month. He is the son of my brother, Scott Barber Morgan. The results will appear on the Marcum- Markham page.
May 5, 2008 The Moses Barber family is here
May 4, 2008 Just when I think I have everything figured out, life shows me that I don't know what I am talking about. LOL. It turns out that Charles Stephen Barber is from a Barber line that I did not know about previously. His line of descent is from Moses Barber, born 1755-1760, died 1800, Chatham County North Carolina, married Elizabeth. That means that Moses is most likely a brother of my James Barber. I get a headache just thinking about it. Anyway, The descent from Moses is Zadock Barber, Wesley B. Barber, William S. Barber, Charles Y Barber, and Charles Stephen Barber, and his sister, Shirley Barber McDaniel.
May 3, 2008 We have an exact match with Charles Stephen Barber and Arthur Bud Barber II for 25 markers. This means there is a 85% probability of a common ancestor within 8 generations. I am not sure who Charles Stephen Barber is, but I assume he is a descendant of Stephen P. Barber, who was a descendant of Gray Barber, that I used to write to several years ago.
May 1, 2008 The results for Frank James Markham are back, and he and I are exact matches for 12 markers! Frank is a descendant of Nimrod Markham, who was born in 1818 in Tennessee and married in 1845 in Noxubee County, Mississippi. My John Bunyon Markham was born 1819 in Tennessee and married in 1843 in Noxubee County, Mississippi.
I would guess that the elder John Markham had the following sons:
James C. Markham, born 1807
Nimrod Markham, born 1818
John Bunyon Markham, born 1819
John and his family lived with the James C. Markham family in Bienville Parish, Louisiana in 1850, and James had a young son named Nimrod.
My theory is that the elder John Markham was a brother to Abner Markham and the son of William Markham. Hopefully, DNA will help us solve that.
April 25, 2008 After hearing from Dan Sullivan, I have decided that our James Barber, born 1763, was not the son of John Barber and Mary Allen of Anson County, North Carolina. John died in 1802, and gave his son James some land. James sold the land in 1818 and was thus still in Anson County. Our James was in Clarke County, GA by 1803. So I would say we need to search elsewhere for our James.
Subject: Re: James Barber? David, You got me intrigued and I went ahead and did some checking. James Barber son of John Barber, d. 1802, sold the land he inherited in 1818-see below. I found my copy of the deed (I got lucky and found it in a few minutes-you should see my files!) In the deed it says that both James Barber and John Studivant were residents of Anson County when the deed was signed. So it looks like this James was still in Anson in 1818. Dan Deed T:167& 168 Jan 16,1818 James Barber John Studivant 40 acres, land from John Barber inheritance in 1802
April 21, 2008 I have added two biographical sketches to Chapter 12. One is on Wiley Crawford Barber, and the other one is supposedly on his son James Russell Barber, but most of it focuses on Wiley. I thought I had lost these articles years ago, as I did not find them until after my book was published in 1975. But I just discovered that I had donated them to the Oconee County, GA USGenWeb page and to the Polk County, GA archives. So they weren't lost after all, just misplaced.
April 20, 2008 I have updated info for Gray Barber, in Chapter 11.
April 19, 2008 Wow, what a surprise! Don Barber has tested his DNA and is an exact match with my three other cousins. I have been trying to contact him for months but did not have his current address. He is a direct descendant of Joshua Heard Barber, the son of James M. Barber, the brother of Wiley Crawford Barber and Silas Harrison Barber. Joshua was raised by Wiley after James died in 1855. Thanks to Don, I have updated Chapter 11.
April 18, 2008 I updated Chapter 8 on the Hambrick and Barron families. The Hambrick info comes from Mrs. Porter, a descendant, and the Barron info comes from Joe Barron's web site, a descendant.
April 13, 2008 My nephew, Kristoffer Scott Morgan, has agreed to do a DNA test. So he should receive the test this week.
April 10, 2008 This DNA stuff never ceases to amaze. Ryan Barbour, a descendant of Plyer Barber, is an exact match with Kelvin Barber of England! Kelvin traces his family back to William Barber, born 1804, in England. I don't have any answers for this!
April 4, 2008 I just received an update from my nephew, Kris Morgan. Wow! His new information is in Chapter 16.
April 3, 2008 I have received the results of both Ryan Barbour and Khris Markham, and have negative results on both.
First, Ryan Barbour is a descendant of Plyer Barber, who was a son of George Barber and his wife Elizabeth of Craig's Creek, Augusta County, Virginia. Plyer was a brother of George Barber, who married Margaret Watkins and went to Wilkes-Ogelthorpe County, Georgia and fought in the American Revolution.
Ryan's results prove that Plyer Barber and his family are not related to my family, that of James Barber and his wife Penelope of Clarke County, Georgia.
Khris Markham is a descendant of Rev. Anderson Markham, born 1816, White County, Tennessee. His results prove that Anderson was not related to my ancestor, John Bunyon Markham, who was born 1819, we think in White County, Tennessee.
April 2, 2008 I have found some sad news for my family. I have found four newspaper articles about the murder of my niece, April Marie (Slaymaker) Eaves in 1989. The articles are:
June 23, 1989, Houston Chronicle
June 23, 1989, Houston Chronicle, 2nd article
June 24, 1989, Houston Chronicle
June 27, 1989, Houston Chronicle
The killing has never been solved.
April 1, 2008 Frank Markham's kit was received by Family Tree DNA today. So it will be about six weeks before the results are back. Frank is a descendant of Nimrod Markham, who I think is a brother of John Bunyon Markham.
March 6, 2008 Khris Markham's kit was received by Family Tree DNA yesterday. So we should have his results about April 4. Hopefully, he will be an exact match with me. Khris is a descendant of Anderson Markham, who was possibly a brother of my ancestor, John Bunyon Markham.
March 4, 2008 Here is an update on Bassett.
This comes from the web page of Carol Rhead Tessen. She says her web site
will come down on March 12, 2008, so if anyone wants it, make a copy. So
here is my copy. Carol's e-mail is tessenc@comcast.net
Bassett Ancestors
I wanted to pull my hair out when I started researching my Bassett
ancestors! There are so many Bassett's named Thomas and William and
it gets very confusing trying to sort them all out. Actually I
haven't sorted them out and am desperate for some assistance. What I
have found is that Thomas Bassett arrived in America in 1635 via the
ship Truelove. I don't know if he was the first Bassett (in my line)
in this country or what his relationship is to the Massachusetts
Bassett's.
I found the following information regarding two William Bassett's in:
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I
I'm not sure how these two men work into the Bassett's I have listed
so I'm putting them here. Can anyone give me more information on
these two Williams?
Name: William Bassett, son of William Bassett, "yeoman," of Newport,
in Isle of Wight, England, had seen military service; came to
Virginia prior to 1665, when he was made commander of the workmen
employed in building a fort at Jamestown; was paid 10,000 pounds of
tobacco for his services; acquired a large estate, and died in 1672,
leaving a son, William Bassett, of "Eltham," New Kent county, member
of the council, by Bridget Cary, daughter of Capt. Miles Cary.
Name: William Bassett, of "Eltham," New Kent county, Virginia, was
son of Col. William Bassett and Joanna Burwell, his wife; was member
of the assembly of 1742-1747, but died in 1744, before the
termination thereof. He married Elizabeth Churchill, daughter of Col.
William Churchill, and was father of Burwell Bassett (q. v.).
Name: William Bassett
of "Eltham," New Kent county, was a son of Capt. William Bassett of
the same county and was born in 1670. He was a member of the house of
burgesses from New Kent in 1692, 1696, 1702 and probably in the
intervening years. On May 22, 1702, Edmund Jennings and John
Lightfoot certified that Col. William Bassett, who was elected
burgess for New Kent, "was tendered the oaths for burgess and
returned the following answer, 'I have already in several
qualifications testified my allegiance to King William's government
by taking the oaths &c.; but I am now informed, and fully satisfied
that he is dead, and therefore I think myself obliged both in
prudence and conscience to decline taking ye oaths to him at this
time.'" On May 14, 1702, the Queen appointed him a member of the
council of Virginia and he was present at sessions of that body until
April 15, 1708. Within a few years Bassett desired to retire from the
council and wrote to England to that effect, stating that neither his
health nor his private affairs would permit him to attend. This,
after some delay, was granted, but Bassett seems to have made too
high a record as an official to be allowed to remain long in
retirement, and in 1711, he was returned to the council, but declined
to accept as he was not restored to his former position in that body.
On March 11, 1714-15, he was again included in a commission to the
councilors and this time took his seat, attending regularly the
sessions until his death in 1723.
III--Colonial Councilors of State
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Generation No. 1
WILLIAM BASSETT was born about 1590 in England and died 1624 in
Jamestown, Virginia. He married ISABELLA about 1615 in England.
Notes for WILLIAM BASSETT
WILLIAM and ISABELLA had been in the Virginia Colony less than a
month when he died in the Jamestown Massacre.
On 22 Mar 1623/24: The Record of the Virginia Company of London notes
that: Wm Bassett was one of the massacred by the savages of Virginia.
Notice to be given to his family in England, "to the end that Heyres
(Heirs) may take heed for the property: College People (about 2 miles
from Henry City, Va.) Copy filed under Va Prob. or Land and Prop.
Child of WILLIAM BASSETT and ISABELLA is:
i.
THOMAS BASSETT, b. 1617, England; d. before 1659, York, Virginia
Generation No. 2
THOMAS BASSETT (WILLIAM BASSETT1) was born 1617 in England and died
about 1655 in York, Virginia. He married MARY about 1642. She was
born about 1622 in England and died January 1677/78 in York,
Virginia.
Notes for THOMAS BASSETT
Sailed on the "Truelove" which departed London June 10, 1635 bound
for Barbados and the Sommers Islands. Living in York County,
Virginia in April 1639.
Notes for MARY BASSETT
After THOMAS died, MARY married WILLIAM FELGATE who died in 1660.
MARY and WILLIAM had no children. MARY married as her third husband,
CAPTAIN JOHN UNDERHILL and had four children by him: JOHN, JANE,
NATHANIEL, and MARY.
Children of THOMAS BASSETT and MARY are:
i.
WILLIAM BASSETT, b. about 1643, York County, Virginia; d. before May
1724, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia
ii.
MARY BASSETT, b. about 1645
WILLIAM BASSETT was born unknown and died unknown. He married ANNE.
She was born unknown and died unknown.
Child of WILLIAM BASSETT and ANNE is:
i.
WILLIAM BASSETT, England; d. about 1671/72, Virginia
Generation 3
WILLIAM BASSETT (THOMAS BASSETT2) was born about 1643 in York County,
Virginia and died before May 1724 in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent
County, Virginia. He married ANNE. She was born about 1645.
NOTES: Is listed as being Sheriff of New Kent County in 1699 and
Vestryman for St. Peter's Parish (Churchwarden in August 1700). This
information was taken from an article in The Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography, Vol. I (January 1894), No. 3, pp. 229 and 235.
Children of WILLIAM BASSETT and ANNE are:
i.
THOMAS BASSETT, b. about 1668, New Kent County, Virginia; d. April
20, 1720, New Kent County, Virginia
ii.
ANNE BASSETT, b. about 1670, New Kent County, Virginia; m. (1) THOMAS
MOORE; m. (2) CHARLES BOSTICK
iii.
URSULA BASSETT, b. between 1670 - 1673, New Kent County, Virginia; d.
after 1720
iv.
MARY BASSETT, b. between 1672 - 1673, New Kent County, Virginia; d.
1724; m. JOHN BAUGHAN
vi.
JOHN BASSETT, b. between 1675 - 1682; m. ELIZABETH
vii.
ELIZABETH BASSETT, b. July 4, 1676, New Kent County, Virginia; d.
October 4, 1738; m. JOHN HOWLE; d. 1741
viii.
FRANCES BASSETT, b. between 1676 - 1678; d. after 1733; m. ROBERT
HORSLEY
WILLIAM BASSETT (WILLIAM BASSETT2) was born unknown and died about
1671/72. He immigrated to America about 1665. He married BRIDGET
CARY in 1670 in Virginia, daughter of CAPTAIN MILES CARY and ANNE
TAYLOR. She was born 1652 and died unknown.
Child of WILLIAM BASSETT and BRIDGET CARY is:
i.
WILLIAM BASSETT, b. 1671; m. JOANNA BURWELL, November 28, 1693
Generation 4
THOMAS BASSETT (WILLIAM BASSETT3) was born about 1668 in probably
York County, Virginia and died April 20, 1720 in New Kent County,
Virginia. He married (1) ELINOR about 1693. She died September 7,
1713 in New Kent County, Virginia. He married (2) ELIZABETH. She
died April 7, 1717 from complications of childbirth. He married (3)
MARY. She died April 18, 1719 from complications of childbirth.
Children of THOMAS BASSETT and ELINOR are:
i.
JOHN BASSETT, b. February 5, 1694; d. March 17, 1716
ii.
THOMAS BASSETT, b. December 10, 1696, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent
County, Virginia; d. 1758, St. Paul's Parish, Richmond County,
Georgia
iii.
NATHANIEL BASSETT, b. February 18, 1701; d. 1732
iv.
ANNE BASSETT, b. 1703; d. before 1732
v.
WILLIAM BASSETT, b. July 1, 1705; d. March 8, 1716
vi.
ELIZABETH FRANCES BASSETT, b. 1707; m. WILLIAM ALLEN
vii.
JANE BASSETT, b. 1711
Children of THOMAS BASSETT and ELIZABETH are:
i.
URSULA BASSETT, b. June 7, 1715
ii.
MARY BASSETT, b. April 4, 1717
Child of THOMAS BASSETT and MARY is:
i.
DAVID BASSETT, b. April 7, 1719
ANNE BASSETT (WILLIAM BASSETT3) was born about 1670 in New Kent
County, Virginia and died unknown. She married 1) THOMAS MOORE; 2)
CHARLES BOSTICK/BOSTOCK.
Children of ANNE BASSETT and THOMAS MOORE are:
i.
WILLIAM MOORE, b. about 1702, New Kent County, Virginia
ii.
JUDE MOORE, b. about 1703, New Kent County, Virginia
iii.
SUSANNA MOORE, b. about 1704/05, New Kent County, Virginia
iv.
ELIZABETH MOORE, b. about 1709, New Kent County, Virginia; m. LEWIS
BOBBITT
v.
JAMES MOORE, b. about 1712/13, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County,
Virginia
JOHN BASSETT (WILLIAM BASSETT3) was born between 1675-1682 and died
unknown. He married ELIZABETH (CARTER?).
Children of JOHN BASSETT and ELIZABETH are:
i.
WILLIAM BASSETT, b. 1725
ii.
ANNE BASSETT, b. 1726
iii.
ELLINOR BASSETT, b. 1729
FRANCES BASSETT (WILLIAM BASSETT3) was born about 1676 in New Kent
County, Virginia and died after 1733. She married ROBERT HORSLEY
about 1699 in Virginia. He died in 1733 in Hanover County, Virginia.
Children of FRANCES BASSETT and ROBERT HORSLEY are:
i.
JOHN HORSLEY, b. about 1703, New Kent County, Virginia
ii.
ROBERT HORSLEY, b. about 1706, New Kent County, Virginia
iii.
WILLIAM HORSLEY, b. about 1710, New Kent County, Virginia
iv.
ELIZABETH HORSLEY
v.
MARY HORSLEY, b. about 1714, New Kent County, Virginia
vi.
ROWLAND HORSLEY, b. about 1720, New Kent County, Virginia; d. after
1787 in Amelia County, Virginia; m. SUSANNAH.
vii.
ANN HORSLEY, b. about 1721, New Kent County, Virginia
Generation 5
THOMAS BASSETT (THOMAS BASSETT4) was born December 10, 1696 in St.
Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia and died 1758 in St. Paul's
Parish, Richmond County, Georgia. He married (1) LYDIA HOWLE
February 25, 1719 in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia.
She was born about 1699 in Virginia and died before 1754 in Richmond
County, Georgia. He married (2) ELIZABETH MILLS, February 25, 1754
in Savannah, Georgia.
Children of THOMAS BASSETT and LYDIA HOWLE are:
i.
NATHANIEL BASSETT, b. about 1721; d. 1794, Prince Edward County,
Virginia
ii.
MARY BASSETT, b. about 1727
iii.
FRANCES "FANNIE" BASSETT, b. March 7, 1728; m. JOSEPH CHATWIN
iv.
ELIZABETH BASSETT, b. March 12, 1732, Goochland County, Virginia; d.
May 1819, Mercer County, Kentucky
v.
THOMAS BASSETT, b. 1737; d. 1781, Georgia; m. LUCY
Child of THOMAS BASSETT and ELIZABETH MILLS is:
i.
LOUISSA BASSETT
Generation 6
ELIZABETH BASSETT (THOMAS BASSETT5) was born March 12, 1732 in
Goochland County, Virginia and died May 1819 in Mercer County,
Kentucky. She married ALLEN BURTON, 1754 in Mecklenburg County,
Virginia, son of NOWELL BURTON and JUDITH ALLIN. He was born
February 12, 1729 in Henrico County, Virginia and died 1781 in
Granville County, North Carolina.
Children of ELIZABETH BASSETT and ALLEN BURTON are:
i.
FRANCES BURTON, b. April 3, 1755; m. NATHANIEL HIX, October 9, 1783,
Mecklenburg, Virginia
ii.
THOMAS BURTON, b. 1760
iii.
JOHN BURTON, b. 1764
iv.
ALLEN BURTON, b. 1765, Granville County, North Carolina
v.
BASSETT BURTON, b. 1767
vi.
JESSE BURTON, b. 1769
vii.
MARGARET (or MARY) BURTON, b. 1770; m. ??? WILLIAMS
viii.
ELIZABETH BURTON, b. 1772; m. ??? HALL
ix.
ROBERT ALLEN BURTON, b. April 11, 1776; d. May 31, 1825; m. MARGARET
FERGUSON, March 26, 1795, Mercer County, Kentucky
NATHANIEL BASSETT (THOMAS BASSETT5) was born about 1721 in Virginia
and died 1794 in Prince Edward County, Virginia. He married MARY
DAWSON about 1756 in Virginia. She was born about 1735 in Virginia
and died 1809 in Henry County, Virginia.
Children of NATHANIEL BASSETT and MARY DAWSON are:
i.
JOHN BASSETT, b. 1756, Virginia; m. NANCY COMER
ii.
NATHANIEL BASSETT, b. October 12, 1758, Virginia; d. 1832, Tennessee;
m. MARGARET ARMSTRONG SPENCER
iii.
MARTHA BASSETT, b. 1760, Virginia; m. PHILIP JOHNSON
vi.
ABNER BASSETT, b. 1765, Virginia; d. August 5, 1822; m. SUSANNAH
HARBARD
v.
BURWELL BASSETT, b. 1767; m. MARY HUNTER
THOMAS BASSETT (THOMAS BASSETT5) was born 1737 in Virginia and died
1781 in Alabama. He married LUCY.
Notes for THOMAS BASSETT
Because he was a British Royalist, he fled the Patriots of Georgia
about 1768 and went to the interior of the British West Florida
Territory where he received two British Grants totaling 1,850 acres.
After the Revolutionary War, THOMAS and his brother, NATHANIEL, swore
an allegiance to the Spanish Crown and obtained Spanish Warrants for
the land previously conveyed by British Grant. He was murdered by
Indians along the creek which bears his name.
Children of THOMAS BASSETT and LUCY are:
i.
NATHANIEL BASSETT, b. 1761; d. 1803 (never had children)
ii.
THOMAS BASSETT, b. 1762; m. SARAH CLEVELAND
ELIZABETH BASSETT marries ALLEN BURTON and consequently is the last
BASSETT ancestor I have. Therefore, I haven't pursued the BASSETT
family beyond Generation No. 6.
March 3, 2008 Here is an update on Berryhill.
