Georgia Family Group Sheet for the George BARBER Family


Husband: George BARBER
Birthdate: ca. 1743
Birthplace: Augusta Co. VA
Death date: 1822
Place of death: Oglethorpe CO. GA
Father: George BARBER
Mother: Elizabeth BARBER

Marriage date: Dec 1766 or in 1767
Marriage place: Augusta Co. VA

Wife: Margaret WATKINS
aka: Margaret WADKINS
Birthdate: ca 1743
Birthplace: Chester Co. PA
Death date: 1830
Place of death: Henry Co. GA
Father: Robert WATKINS
Mother: Jane WILLIAMS WATKINS (Frank Russell said mother was Margaret, Robert's first wife)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: William BARBER
Birthdate: abt 1767, Johnston Co. NC
Spouses' names:
Marriage date: (believed to have been survived by a dau)
Death date: after 1826; disappeared from Oglethorpe Co GA

Child No. 2: Matthew BARBER
Birthdate: abt 1768, Johnston Co. NC
Spouses' names: Mrs. Johannah (WELDON) JOHNSON
Marriage date: 24 Feb 1803, Oglethorpe Co GA
Death date: 11 May 1859, Butts Co. GA.

Child No. 3: Robert BARBER
Birthdate: abt 1769, GA
Spouses' names: Sarah ORR, dau of Christopher ORR & Martha WATKINS
Marriage date: abt 1794, Oglethorpe CO. GA
Death date: 18 Sept 1850, Clarke Co. GA

Child No. 4: Samuel BARBER
Birthdate:
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: after 1820

Child No. 5: Reese BARBER
Birthdate: abt. 1774, Wilkes Co. GA
Spouses' names: Catherine REYNOLDS, dau of Spencer REYNOLDS
Marriage date: abt 1805, Clarke Co. GA
Death date: abt 1830, Clarke Co. GA

Child No. 6: Martha BARBER
Birthdate: abt 1777, Wilkes Co. GA
Spouses' names: James SCOTT
Marriage date: 29 June 1797, Oglethorpe Co. GA
Death date: bef. 1820

Child No. 7: Elizabeth BARBER
Birthdate: abt 1779, Wilkes CO. GA
Spouses' names: Joseph Gill STILES
Marriage date: 13 March 1799, Oglethorpe Co. GA
Death date: 1805, Jones CO GA

Child No. 8: Sarah BARBER
Birthdate: abt. 1780, Wilkes Co. GA
Spouses' names: George REYNOLDS, son of Spencer REYNOLDS
Marriage date: abt 1799, Oglethorpe Co GA
Death date:

Child No. 9: Josiah BARBER
Birthdate: abt 1783, Wilkes Co GA
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: died young

Child No. 10: George BARBER
Birthdate: 1786, Wilkes Co. GA
Spouses' names: Elizabeth REYNOLDS, dau of Spencer REYNOLDS
Marriage date: 11 May 1806, Clarke Co. GA
Death date: 2 July 1854, Shelby Co. TX
 
 
Documentation:
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.

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.
* George Sr's military service: Lt and Capt. in Revolution, Lt. Col in Creek War (1787).
 

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