BIO:  BARBER, Adin, s/o Lemuel & Judith (Barnes) Barber

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

BARBER   BARNES   HOUTS   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1886

Daviess County, Veal Twp., page 894

ADIN BARBER (deceased) was a pioneer of Daviess County, Ind., born in the
"Empire State" April 20, 1805, son of Lemuel and Judith (Barnes) Barber,
who were born in 1763.  In early times the Barber family moved from New
York to Kentucky, and were among the pioneers of the State.  They came
to Indiana in 1819, and located in Daviess County.  Lemuel Barber was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, and the family now have in their possession
a miniature keg which he carried through the war, and in which he kept liquor
in case of an emergency.  He died in Kentucky.  Our subject located on a
farm, and through life was a tiller of the soil.  In 1830 he was married to
Aliza Houts, born in Kentucky in 1813, daughter of George and Jane Houts,
natives of Virginia and Kentucky, born in 1791 and 1788, respectively.  The
father died in Indiana in 1864, and the mother in 1878.  To Mr. and Mrs. 
Barber were born children as follows:  George L., born in 1831, died in 1832;
Nelson, born in 1833; Jane, born in 1835; Laura, born in 1837; George, born
in 1839 (was a soldier in Company D, Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, and
served until 1864; he is now a clerk in the pension department at Washington,
D.C.), and Emily, born in 1841.  Mr. Barber was a Whig and Republican.  His
death took place January 31, 1844.  Mrs. Barber, an estimable lady, still
resides on the old Barber homestead.  The family have been prominent in the
county for more than half a century.
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