Friday, February 6, 2015

Mark and Gilly Barker

I have been working with some documents that belonged to my grandfather, Jeter Olive Barker. Among them are several helpful genealogical articles related to our family. Most recently I have been working with one I call the "Mark and Gilly Barker family notes." It lists Mary and Gilly and then several children, spouses and grandchildren. I believe this may have been written by Ellen Margaret Barker, sister to my great-grandfather Walter Graham Barker. I have not yet been able to nail down that Gilly Barker was Gilly Olive before she married. But I suspect so, and that would explain my grandfather's middle name (and my dad's). I have an Olive family genealogy in the files that I need to plow through to see if it can confirm my supposition. One of the most interesting things to glean from this document is the fact that two children of Mark and Gilly Barker, Hosea Jackson Barker and Delia Barker, married siblings in the Holleman family. Also among the papers of my grandfather is a handwritten summary of the Holleman family. I have not yet integrated it into what I have, but intend to. For now, here is the notes page and my transcription of it.


Mark - Gilly

Hosea Jackson B- married Lucilla Jane Holleman ( 8 ys dec) daughter of Edwin and Sallie Johnson Holleman...boys and Ellen

Henderson Calvin b- married Salllie Wilson, daughter of Houston and

Arzilla Johnson Wilson

Burrell Quinton Barker married Nancy Hunter ?

Dickerson Barker married Martha Johnson
child

Oscar & - Cecil Barker & Mrs. Gypsy Hiatt of Greensboro

Delia or Dilly Barker married Rev Monroe Holleman (my mother's brother) 

one son- Harvey M. now dec-

Arzilla married Junius Edwards - one daughter Mrs. Carrie E. Womble

lives in Cary, NC. Another daughterLenna E. Saunders. Durham


Laura Barker married Faust Johnson.

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