Roane County, West Virginia         BIO: Dr. Thomas BARR

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History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927
William H. Bishop, Esq.
p 443

BARR:
Dr. Thomas Barr, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (O'Connor) Barr; the father,
Thomas, was born in Edinburg, Scotland; the mother, in Dublin, Ireland.  Both
died in Lynchburg, Virginia, he in 1851, she 1853, Thomas, Jr., subject of
this sketch, being nine years old wheri his  mother  died.   Dr.  Thomas
Barr  was  born  in  Amherst County, Virginia, March 15, 1844; he does not
tell how or where he grew up in his biography dictated to Hardesty's about
the year 1883. Enlisted in the Confederate army, 1862, Co. K, 14th Va.
cavalry; as
served, he was only twenty years old when he enlisted.  As the Virginia
cavalry furnished its own mounts, he must have been a young man of promise.
He served through this war, coming out unscathed. In Greenbrier County,
August 22, 1866, he married Allie F., daughter of John and Mary (Hyde)
Kincaid; three years later they arrived in Roane County, their first born
with them; they made their first home qt Peniel on upper Reedy; from which
point the doctor went out plying his profession, soon gaining a good
reputation as an efficient and kindly physician.
He makes no mention in his biography where or when he obtained his medical
knowledge; he was liked and succeeded.  After a few years at Peniel he moved
his family to Reedy where he lived for some years in the neatest and best
kept residence of the village, the leading physician for nearly ten years.
About the year 1884, the family moved to the State of Colorado.
To Dr. Thomas Barr and Allie F. (Kincaid), his wife, were born in years prior
to their departure for Colorado the following children:
Harry W., September 14, 1868; Charles C., February 4, 1870; Otey H., December
11, 1872; Willy G., October 24, 1877; Walter B., August 21, 1880; Emma G.,
December 21, 1882. Though there is not one of this estimable man's family in
this State, and maybe not one will ever see this, oblivion shall not claim
them.