HUSBAND: Gilbert Hare BARGAR
Born:    25 Mar 1840        Place: Buffalo, NY
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Father:  Valentine BARGER          See Family Group Sheet 10160
Mother:  Alice LEE

WIFE:    Sophia Jane LAKIN
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CHILDREN:

1. Name: Minnie A. BARGAR  
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   Marr:                     To:    F. A. SELLS
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2. Name: Byron L. BARGAR            See Family Group Sheet 10167
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   Marr:                     To:    Florence NEIL
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3. Name: Gilbert Milton BARGAR      See Family Group Sheet 10248 for 1st marriage
                                    See Family Group Sheet 10249 for 2nd marriage
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4. Name: William Alexander BARGAR   See Family Group Sheet 10251

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   Marr:                     To:    Helen HARDISTY
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5. Name: Frances Arabella BARGAR
   Born:                     Place: of Columbus, OH
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6. Name: Frederick C. BARGAR        See Family Group Sheet 10254
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   Marr:                     To:    Alice STEWART
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7. Name: Lucia BARGAR
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   Marr:                     To:    William LITTLE
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(A) A. L. Barger reported that Gilbert Hare Bargar, who was orphaned at the age of two, following the death of his father in the wreck of the West Wind steamboat on the Ohio River in 1842. His early education was in country schools near Cadiz, Ohio, after which he attended West Bradford Academy and the Ohio Law College in Cleveland, Ohio, from which he graduated on 28 Jun 1861.
(B) Gilbert Hare Bargar served as a First Lieutenant and later as a Captain of Infantry in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
(C) Gilbert Hare Bargar was a member of the Ohio General Assembly, representing Coshocton County, for two terms.
(D) In 1865, he was appointed U.S. Pension Agent for Ohio.
(E) From 1893 to 1897, he was Director of Law for the City of Columbus, Ohio.
(F) Minnie A. Bargar and her husband, F. A. Sells, resided in Columbus, Ohio. The had a daughter, Marguerite Sells.
(G) Frances Arabella Bargar was the Librarian of the Carnegie Library of Columbus, Ohio.
(H) Lucia Barger married William Little of Wilmette, Lake County, Illinois. They had three daughters, Lucia, Jane and Bettie Little, all of Wilmette, Illinois.
(I) The spelling of the family name appears to have evolved from "Barger" to "Bargar" during this generation.
(J) This family is descended from the Putnam Valley Barger family of New York.

(1) Barger, Alvan Lyell, The Barger Journal, self-published, Charlottesville, VA, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1924.

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