Mrs. O. Barker

BARKER

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 3/2/2008 at 16:35:13

Mrs. O. Barker was born in Canada, Dec. 25, 1830. She lived there until 1852. She was married to John Barker in 1850. He was also a native of Canada, born Nov. 27, 1827. He died April 29, 1875. From Canada the family went to Chicago, Ill.; from thence to DeKalb Co., Ill., living there ten years; from there to Douglas Co., Ill., and ten years later came to Worth county, settling on section 10, of Bristol township, where the family have since lived. Mrs. Barker owns 161 acres of farming land and twenty acres of woodland, total 181 acres. Mrs. Barker is a member of the M. E. Church. There are seven children — Celestia, born in 1851; James, born Dec. 2,1859; Catharine M., born Feb. 22, 1861 ; Charles J., born July 31,1862; Albert M., born April 18, 1865, and Mary J., born April 27, 1868. Catharine is now the wife of A. J. Brown.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 720.