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10300 - WILLIAM ALEXANDER BARGER


HUSBAND: William Alexander BARGER Born: 1 Oct 1819 Place: Knoxville, Knox Co., TN Marr: 28 Oct 1839 Place: Carroll Co., TN Died: Jan 1902 Place: Milan, Gibson Co., TN Burial: Place: Father: Alfred BARGER See Family Group Sheet 10268 Mother:
WIFE: Elizabeth Lucinda PRICE Born: 1824 Place: Died: Place: Burial: Place: Father: Jackson PRICE Mother: Elizabeth _____
CHILDREN: 1. Name: John BARGER See Family Group Sheet 10341 Born: 1842 Place: Milan, Gibson Co., TN Marr: To: Died: 1867 Place: TN 2. Name: Theodore F. H. BARGER See Family Group Sheet 10301 for 1st marriage. See Family Group Sheet 10294 for 2nd marriage. Born: 1844 Place: Knoxville, Knox Co., TN Marr: To: (1) Rachel HOLDER (2) Laura Ellen McMINN Died: Nov 1911 Place: Huntsville, TN 3. Name: Sarah Elizabeth "Sis" BARGER Born: 1847 Place: Marr: To: James WILSON Died: Place: 4. Name: James BARGER See Family Group Sheet 10302 Born: 1849 Place: Marr: To: Maggie MANLEY Died: Place: 5. Name: William Alexander BARGER See Family Group Sheet 10303 for 1st marriage. See Family Group Sheet 10311 for 2nd marriage. Born: 2 Apr 1852 Place: Marr: To: (1) Karen Lucretia BROWNING (2) Bertha YANT Died: 20 May 1915 Place: 6. Name: Joseph True BARGER See Family Group Sheet 10304 for 1st marriage. See Family Group Sheet 10299 for 2nd marriage. Born: 15 Mar 1855 Place: Henderson Co., TN Marr: 1889 To: (1) Fannie LOLLER 23 Feb 1893 (2) Laura Alice LOGUE Died: 3 Dec 1915 Place: Senath, Dunklin Co., MO 7. Name: Fleming Sugar BARGER See Family Group Sheet 10305 Born: 10 Aug 1858 Place: TN Marr: 1893 To: Edith Vaine BRYANT Died: Nov 1933 Place: Milan, Gibson Co., TN 8. Name: Mary Molly BARGER Born: Place: Marr: To: B. F. Spain FORRET Died: Place:

Notes:

(A) Alfred Barger (husband's father) married twice and had three daughters and one son by the second wife. We know nothing of the family of his first marriage, but it is said that Alfred Barger had family in Carroll, Gibson and Madison Counties in Tennessee.
(B) John Barger (son) was a soldier in the Civil War, entering the service in 1861 as a volunteer. He was severely wounded by a shell in 862, which incapacitated him from further military service. He died from the effects of the wound in 1867.
(C) Theodore Barger was also known as "Tice" Barger.
(D) William A. Barger was a farmer in Knoxville, and later in Milan, TN.
(E) Rachel Holder was part Indian.
(F) The younger William A. Barger, and both his wives, and Fleming Sugar Barger and his wife, are all buried at Friendship Cemetery in the Arsenal at Milan, Gibson Co., TN.
(G) This family is descended from the Alfred Barger family of West Tennessee.

The Alfred Barger Family


Sources:

(1) Marriage records of Carroll Co., TN indicate a marriage of William A. Barger and Lucinda Price on 30 Oct 1839.
(2) Information pertaining to Joseph True Barger is inscribed on his grave marker at Seneth, MO, and shown in a photograph furnished by Mrs. Gene Bloomingburg of Lexington, Henderson Co., TN, included in correspondence to Susan Barger Donahue in 1997.


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