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HUSBAND: George BARBER
date and place of birth: ca. 1743, Augusta Co. VA
date and place of marriage: Dec 1766 or in 1767, Augusta Co. VA
other marriages:
military service: Lt and Capt. in Revolution, Lt. Col in Creek War(1787)

date and place of death: 1822, Oglethorpe CO. GA
father: George BARBER
mother: Elizabeth BARBER
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WIFE: Margaret WATKINS (or WADKINS)
date and place of birth: ca 1743, Chester Co. PA
date and place of marriage: Dec 1766 or in 1767, Augusta Co. VA
other marriages:
date and place of death: 1830, Henry Co. GA
mother's father: Robert WATKINS
mother's mother: Jane WILLIAMS WATKINS (Frank Russell said mother was
Margaret, Robert's first wife)
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CHILD 1: William BARBER
date and place of birth: abt 1767, Johnston Co. NC
married:
date and place of marriage: (believed to have been survived by a dau)
other marriages:
date and place of death: after 1826; disappeared from Oglethorpe Co GA
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CHILD 2: Matthew BARBER
date and place of birth: abt 1768, Johnston Co. NC
married: Mrs. Johannah (WELDON) JOHNSON
date and place of marriage: 24 Feb 1803, Oglethorpe Co GA
other marriages:
date and place of death: 11 May 1859, Butts Co. GA.
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CHILD 3: Robert BARBER
date and place of birth: abt 1769, GA
married: Sarah ORR, dau of Christopher ORR & Martha WATKINS
date and place of marriage: abt 1794, Oglethorpe CO. GA
other marriages:
date and place of death: 18 Sept 1850, Clarke Co. GA
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CHILD 4: Samuel BARBER
date and place of birth:
married:
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death: after 1820
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CHILD 5: Reese BARBER
date and place of birth: abt. 1774, Wilkes Co. GA
married: Catherine REYNOLDS, dau of Spencer REYNOLDS
date and place of marriage: abt 1805, Clarke Co. GA
other marriages:
date and place of death: abt 1830, Clarke Co. GA
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CHILD 6: Martha BARBER
date and place of birth: abt 1777, Wilkes Co. GA
married: James SCOTT
date and place of marriage: 29 June 1797, Oglethorpe Co. GA
other marriages:
date and place of death: bef. 1820
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CHILD 7: Elizabeth BARBER
date and place of birth: abt 1779, Wilkes CO. GA
married: Joseph Gill STILES
date and place of marriage: 13 March 1799, Oglethorpe Co. GA
other marriages:
date and place of death: 1805, Jones CO GA
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CHILD 8: Sarah BARBER
date and place of birth: abt. 1780, Wilkes Co. GA
married: George REYNOLDS, son of Spencer REYNOLDS
date and place of marriage: abt 1799, Oglethorpe Co GA
other marriages:
date and place of death:
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CHILD 9: Josiah BARBER
date and place of birth: abt 1783, Wilkes Co GA
married:
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death: died young
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CHILD 10: George BARBER
date and place of birth: 1786, Wilkes Co. GA
married: Elizabeth REYNOLDS, dau of Spencer REYNOLDS
date and place of marriage: 11 May 1806, Clarke Co. GA
other marriages:
date and place of death: 2 July 1854, Shelby Co. TX
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SOURCES:
These sources are mentioned in my book, "Captain George Barber of Georgia"
which was published in 1975. It is online at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/
David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org

Chapter 1

1. Lyman Chalkley, Abstracts From Records Of Augusta County,
Virginia (1745-1800) Arlington, Va. Commonwealth Printing Co.
Vol I, page 430, Vol II, page 397, Vol III, pages 16,17.

2. Ibid, Vol III, page 502. Grace Gilliam Davidson, Early Records of
Georgia (Wilkes County) Vol I, page 16. Johnson County, NC Wills,

1779. Wilkes County Georgia Wills 1806. Georgia Land Grant Book
DDD,
page 355.

3. Frank B. Russell, Reese Kelso Watkins, His Ancestry and His
Descendants and Collateral Lines Smith Kelso Cleveland Bryan-Smith
Allison Outlaw 1973, pages 21, 25, 28.

4. Bedford County Virginia Deed Book C, page 40.

5. Lucian Lamar Knight, Georgia' Roster of the Revolution, 1967,
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, page 375.

6. Louise Frederick Hays, Hero of Hornet's Nest: A Biography of Elijah
Clark 1733 to 1799, 1946, Hobson Book Press: New York NY pages
156, 157.

7. Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol 9, No. 3, 1973, pages
162-167

8. Vessie Thrasher Rainer, Henry County Georgia The Mother of
Counties 1972, pages 48, 49

9. Mary Bondurant Warren, The Georgia Genealogist, Vol II,
1969, page 44

10. From the original on file at Georgia Department of Archives and

History, Atlanta, Georgia.

11. Hays, pages 199, 200

12. Ibid, page 345

13. Georgia Surveyor General Department, Georgia Archives, Atlanta,
Georgia Grant Book DDD, page 355, 18 Sept. 1784, (500 acres), Wilkes
Grant Book III, page 2, 17 Aug. 1785 (690 acres) Franklin Co: Grant
Book ZZZZ, page 268, 26 Jan 1797 (500 acres) Oglethorpe Co.

Chapter 2

14. Marriage Records, Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

15. Georgia Military Records, 1779-1839, pages 24, 25, 26, 29, 32.

16. Marriage Records, Butts County, Georgia.

17. 1850 Census, Butts County, Georgia.

18. Marriage Records, Butts County, Georgia.

19. 1860 Census, Butts County, Georgia.

20. Marriage Records, Butts County, Georgia.

21. 1850 Census, Butts County, Georgia. Not named in will of George W.
Barber

22. 1880 Census, Butts County, Georgia.

23. Marriage Records, Butts County, Georgia; 1870 Census, Butt Co.Ga.

24. 1850 Census, Butts Co. Ga. Not named in will of George W. Barber

25. 1870 Census, Butts Co. Ga.

26. Marriage Records, Butts Co. Ga.

27. 1850 Census, Butts Co. Ga. Not named in will of George W. Barber

28. 1850 Census, Butts Co. Ga, Marriage Records, Butts Co. Ga.

29. 1850 Census, Butts Co. Ga, Marriage Records, Hill Co. Tx. Mr & Mrs
Ken Townsend, Bentonville, Arkansas.

30. 1850 Census, Butts Co Ga. Not named in will of George W Barber

31. Butts County, Georgia Folder, Georgia Department of Archives and
History, Atlanta, Georgia.

Chapter 3

32. 1850 Census, Clarke County, Georgia. Georgia Military Records 1779-
1839, page 185, 305.

33. D.A.R. Early Records of Georgia, "Christopher Orr Bible," Series
III, Vol. page 88, 89, Atlanta Ga. Archives. Russell, pages 12,25

34. Marriage Records, Clarke County, Georgia

35. 1850 Census, Clarke County, Georgia

36. Marriage Records, Clarke County, Georgia

37. Letter, Genevieve Barber Brown (Mrs. Rupert A.) to David Morgan
24 March 1974

38. Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia, Civil
War and Pension Records

39. Marriage Records, Clarke County, Georgia

40. Christopher Orr Bible. Albert G. Pitner-Mrs Martha Barber Bible.
1850 Mortality Census, Clarke County, Georgia, Georgia Archives,
Civil War and Pension Records. Mrs. Carroll P. Denning, Maitland,
Florida, Mrs. Ethel Norton Owen, (Mrs. John Skelton Owen)
Birmingham,
Alabama.

41. Russell, page 28. Mrs. O. B. Wilson, Birmingham, Alabama.

Chapter 4

42. Mrs. C. C. Williams, The History of Jones County, Georgia, 1959,
pages
380-381, 464, 465, 690-692. Georgia Society D.A.R. Miscelleneas
Genealogical Records, 1967, "Stiles Bible Records" pages 457-458.
Marriage Records, Jones County, Georgia. 1850 Census, Jones County,
Georgia.

Chapter 5

43. Georgia Military Records, 1779-1839, pages 24, 25, 32

44. Stephen F. Tillman, Rennolds-Reynolds Family Roster, 1959, pages
306-307

45. Marriage Records, Madison County, Georgia.

46. Civil War and Pension Records, Georgia Archives, Atlanta Georgia.

47. 1850 Census, Clarke County, Georgia.

48. 1850 Census, Sumter County, Georgia

49. Marriage Records, Sumter County, Georgia. 1850 Census, Sumter Co Ga

50. Marriage Records, Clarke County, Georgia

51. Ibid. Genevieve Barber Brown, Athens, Georgia

52. Stephen F. Tillman, page 307 (1959 edition)

Chapter 6

53. Marriage Records, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

53A. Southern Recorder, 16 August 1832, Milledgeville, Georgia

54. Marriage Records, Clarke County, Georgia

55. 1860 Census, Sumter County, Georgia

56. Mrs. Dewitt B. Baker, Bedford, Texs. Mrs. Albert G. Pabst Jr
Dallas Texas NSDAR #577497

Chapter 7

57. 1800 Census, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, shows George Reynolds with
wife and a daughter under 10 years of age.

58. Sallie Reynolds Matthews, Interwoven, A Pioneer Chronicle, University

of Texas Press Edition, page 158. 1880 Census, Throckmorton Co Tx

59. Marriage Records, Chambers County, Alabama. Interwoven and Reynolds
Rennolds Family Roster. 1850 Census, Shelby Co Tx 1860 Census, Palo

Pinto Co Tx 1880 Censu, Throckmorton Co Tx

60. Matthews, Interwovem

61. Leon Claire Metz. John Selman: Texas Gunfighter, 1966, Hastings
House
Publishers, New York. pages 52-60, 62-77, 82-88, 128, 211.

Chapter 8

62. _____ Smith. History of Parker County, Texas 1877

63. 1830 Census, DeKalb County, Georgia shows George Barber living there
and next door was his son Sam R. Barber with wife and a young
daughter

64. "Dennison Files", from the files of Velma Barber Dennison deceased,
supplied to David W. Morgan by Mrs. H. D. White, Kearns, Utah.

65. Marriage Records, Palo Pinto County, Texas. Interwoven, pages 57,59,

68,119. Mr. McLean had tuberculosis in 1868, and may have died soon
after he made a trip from Texas to Colorado with the Reynolds
brothers

66. "Dennison Files" Interwoven, pages 10,27,53,62,149. 1880 Census
Throckmorton Co Tx. Death Certificate, Milton Flake Barber, Dept of
Vital Statistics, Austin, Texas.

67. 1860 Census, Palo Pinto Co, Texas. Interwoven, pages 95,104

68. 1870 Census, Parker County, Texas. Barber Genealogy by Dr. George
Perry Barber.

69. Chambers Co Ala. Deed Book 2, pages 250-251, deed of gift, WIlliam
Centers to Samuel Barron, names William's children of 1838.

70. Marriage Records, Chambers County, Alabama

71. Marriage Records, San Augustine County, Texas. 1850 Census Shelby
County, Texas.

72. 1850 Census, Shelby Co Tx, 1860 Census, Throckmorton CO Tx, 1880
Census
Palo Pinto CO Tx. Marriage records, Chambers CO Ala. Benjamin
Billups, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Marriage records, Nacogdoches CO Tx

73. 1880 Census, Palo Pinto CO Tx, Frontier Times "They Called it
Content"
(Runnels County, Texas) Feb-March 1971, pages 38-43, 62-63 by Juanita

Daniel Zachry.

74. Hunt County Tx marriage records. 1880 Census, Palo Pinto CO Tx

75. 1880 Census, Palo Pinto Co Tx. B. E. Billups

76. Marriage Records, Johnson Co Tx.

77. Benjamin E. Billups, Las Cruces NM

78. Marriage Records, San Augustine County, Tx. 1850 Census, Shelby Co
Tx
Geneaology by Dr. George Perry Barber
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NOTES:
Three children of George Barber-Margaret Watkins married three
children of Spencer Reynolds. Spencer Reynolds left a will in
Williamson CO. TN in 1830.
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