Sunday, April 22, 2007
Barksdale historical photos
We sent David home from the Easter visit with a stack of photos to scan and digitize. Here are the results. These are some great photos of several folks in the clan.
Barksdale Gathering
Easter was a great weekend for the family. Mike's mom Faye, brother Greg and Greg's girlfriend Kristen were in town. Libby's brother and SIL, David and Brenda, and cousin Martha dropped by on Sunday afternoon. We managed to get all the Barksdales, plus Briggs, to light long enough for a photo.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Montreat Barker Family
Shortly after we arrived in Black Mountain, more than a couple of folks asked us if we were kin to the "Montreat Barkers." I don't know.
I know our Barker family came from VA, near Jamestown, and settled in what became Wake County, NC. From there my great-grandfather moved to Randolph County. I know there was another Barker clan in that central part of NC. That "other" group of Barkers had their origins in the US in Delaware. They moved through central VA and thence to NC. I would love to know more about the origins of the Montreat Barkers. Where they were before they were in this area and who the key ancestors may have been.
Interestingly, there is a John Q. Barker who was born in Wake County, and lived for a time in the western NC hills. "Mr. Barker, who was born in Wake County, came to Andrews in 1897 to engage in the lumber business. He had been living in West Virginia since his youth and was educated at Athens College at Hinton in that state. He became affiliated with the lumber industry in West Virginia and when he came to Andrews he established here the Kanoy Hardwood Company which built a mill and began bringing the timber from the Snowbird Mountains in Graham County to Andrews for manufacture. Later Mr. Barker established the Andrews Tanning Extract company which has been one of the basic industries of Cherokee county since it began operations" (The Asheville Citizen-Times, 11 November 1934). John Q. Barker's portrait was hung in the gymnasium at the Andrews high school (wherever that was located in 1934). That was the impetus for the article in the Cistizen-Times.
I'm curious if the "Montreat Barkers" are part of John Q. Barker's extended family somehow. If so, we distantly related, but cousins nonetheless.
I know our Barker family came from VA, near Jamestown, and settled in what became Wake County, NC. From there my great-grandfather moved to Randolph County. I know there was another Barker clan in that central part of NC. That "other" group of Barkers had their origins in the US in Delaware. They moved through central VA and thence to NC. I would love to know more about the origins of the Montreat Barkers. Where they were before they were in this area and who the key ancestors may have been.
Interestingly, there is a John Q. Barker who was born in Wake County, and lived for a time in the western NC hills. "Mr. Barker, who was born in Wake County, came to Andrews in 1897 to engage in the lumber business. He had been living in West Virginia since his youth and was educated at Athens College at Hinton in that state. He became affiliated with the lumber industry in West Virginia and when he came to Andrews he established here the Kanoy Hardwood Company which built a mill and began bringing the timber from the Snowbird Mountains in Graham County to Andrews for manufacture. Later Mr. Barker established the Andrews Tanning Extract company which has been one of the basic industries of Cherokee county since it began operations" (The Asheville Citizen-Times, 11 November 1934). John Q. Barker's portrait was hung in the gymnasium at the Andrews high school (wherever that was located in 1934). That was the impetus for the article in the Cistizen-Times.
I'm curious if the "Montreat Barkers" are part of John Q. Barker's extended family somehow. If so, we distantly related, but cousins nonetheless.
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