Obit of James Taylor Barker (b626) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 11 Oct 2001 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== Surnames: Barker, Baldwin, Miller, Hay, Miller James Taylor Barker was born March 8, 1846 in Logansport, Ind.; and died Sept. 10, 1929, at Rankin, Okla. at the advanced age of 82 years, 6 months and 2 days. At the time Mr. Barker moved to Iowa he was two and a half years old and when he was only seventeen he enlisted in Co. G. 7th Iowa Cav. and served throughout the civil war in the Union arm. "The little brown button " that he constantly wore in the lapel of his coat was mute testimony of his membership in the G.A.R. at Colfax, Iowa and of which he was justly proud. Following the close of the war he was married to Clemintina Miller, of the children born to this union Silvia and Johnnie died in infancy and Mrs. Nannie Baldwin in later life. Seven children living are Mrs. Rose Hay of Grinall, Iowas, Obadiah of Tra Iowa, and Richar, William, Charley James and Alva, all living at Rankin, Oklahoma. There are 48 grandchildren and 11 great grand children. Following the death of his wife Mr. Barker married her sister Van Lue Miller who died after they moved to Oklahoma. The family moved from Iowa to Rankin, Okla. in 1908 settling on the home place they have ever since occupied which now consists of 480 acres of valuable land three miles from the new town of Reydon and adjoining the Santa Fe R.R. that has just been completed from Pampa, Texas to Clinton, Okla. Thus in a few words we sum up a long useful life but it does not tell us of many things that those who have known Grandpa Barker, as he was familiarly called, knew of his life. A man whose integrity was above reproach and whose "word was as good as his bond". He was one of those citizens in whom our community had perfect confidence always ready to do his part in the advancement of the country he bore the financial as well as the labor burdens that naturally fall to a public spirited citizen. His kindness to those in need, sympathy in sorrow and apprecition of the falling of others, madxe Grandpa Barker a man who will be missed far beyond his home ties. Rev. French Lancaster of the Methodist Episcopal church conducted the funeral services and the interment was made in the Rankin White Rose Cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html