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Lillie Ann "Lit" Barber Barrow

7 Mar 1859 – 5 Oct 1891

Birth7 Mar 1859
Death5 Oct 1891
CemeteryAmos Barber Cemetery
Mont Belvieu , Chambers County , Texas , USA
Added byAngelina Davis on 14 Jun 2021
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-13-17May1958 CHAMBERS COUNTY CENTENNIAL Official Program-The First Hundred Years -BARBER FAMILY LINES,pages 310-311, posted on Ancestry= 6.Lilly Ann Barber, b. March 7,1859, Barbers Hill; d. Oct. 5, 1891 (sic),Barbers Hill, buried there; m. Feb. 3, 1878, at Barbers Hill, Robert L.Barrow, b. June 6,1858; d. March 17,1941,Beeville,Tex. Buried there in Glenwood cemetery. (Son of Solomon Barrow 2nd, and Henrietta Lawrence Barrow). -CHAMBERS COUNTY a Pictorial History by Margaret Henson(1924-2001)&Kevin Ladd(1954-2014) -CHAMBERS COUNTY,TEXAS in the War Between the States by Kevin Ladd(1954-2014), ,page 53-54: Amos Barber, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Barrow) Barber, was born November 26, 1814, probably in St. Landry Parish,Louisiana. The Barbers settled on Old River in the early 1830s. In 1848, he married the widow, Mrs. Susan Ann (Hodges) Fitzgerald. They were the first family to build a home on what is now Barbers Hill. He enlisted August 7, 1863 at Liberty at the age of 48 in Captain Thomas Wooten's Company B of the Texas State Troops Cavalry, Confederate Provisional Army. He served as a sergeant in this home guard company. Amos was a prominent rancher and cattleman in western Chambers County. Barber died on October 1, 1885 at his home and is buried in the Barber Family Cemetery, Mont Belvieu. The Barbers raised her two children by her first husband: Adaleasa Martha (1845-1925), who married first to Edward G. "Ed" Hartman III and secondly to Daniel Jeremiah Lawrence; and Francis "Frank" Marion, Jr. (1846-1931), who married in 1867 to Annie Elizabeth Fisher (1848-1915). They also had ten children of their own: Amanda Melissa (1850-1933), who married Marion Williams; Albert Milby (1851-1901), who married Henrietta Lawrence; Elmer Watson (1854-1935), who married Amanda Fisher; Ella Willamina (1855-1901), who married Joseph Fisher; Amos Joshua (1857-1941), who married Cornelia M. Lawrence; Lillie Ann (1859-1899), who married Robert Barrow; Betty (born 1861), who died unmarried; Ada Estella (1864-1940), who married James Matthew "Matt" Fisher; Bertha Aquilla (1867-1935), who married Jeremiah Henry Fisher; and William Henry "Will" (1870-1901), who married Mary E. "Mamie" Scott. -MEMOIRS OF CORNELIA MARTHA LAWRENCE BARBER (1861-1954), ,South Texas Genealogical Society Inc,Spring 1996;Volume 8,No.1 -MONROE CITY The Town Oil Built by Wallisville Heritage Park,Wallisville,Chambers County,Texas,USA -OLD RIVER COUNTRY a History of West Chambers County by Flavia Stubbs Fleischman(1894-1981) -SAMUEL BARBER family changed 'Big Hill' history,BAYTOWN SUN,Baytown,Harris County,Texas,USA,28Jun1987, posted at https://www.newspapers.com/image/6340385/?clipping_id=127805542&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjYzNDAzODUsImlhdCI6MTY4ODc2MjQyNiwiZXhwIjoxNjg4ODQ4ODI2fQ.XztORAnOfxgV_2bTC-nc9NyYaxNlvJ6br8DrYCiEmBQ&fbclid=IwAR2K9-ltAkmfTTBITLRTXQmNgWslEV6iuvkZPQcmiE4ech_S4H8eC-nrmiI -TEXAS COASTAL PIONEERS of Chambers County by Varuna Hartmann Lawrence(1870-1964),pages 15-16: BARBER (a): There were a number of families moving into Texas in the early days. Among them the Barber family consisting of Amos, Liza, Ben, Reuben, Addison, Melissa and Annie. These are the ones I knew personally. They came here from Louisiana but were originally from Virginia. Amos was the oldest and married Susan Ann Hodges Fitzgerald, the widow of Francis Marion Fitzgerald, who was drowned near Galveston and buried in a grove of trees near the southwest end of Galveston Island called Eagle Grove. There was a little girl in the home when Francis Marion drowned, named Adalesa Martha and a little boy was born about five months after his father's death. This boy was given his father's name and was called Frank. Amos Barber and his wife had ten children. Betty died in early childhood. They were as follows: Amanda, Albert Milby, Elmer Watson, Ella, Josh, Lillie (Lil), Estelle, Bertha Aquilla, William Henry (Will). Ella married Joe Fisher and they had the following children: Amos, Jenira, Martha, Walter, Irene, Henry, Zeidee, Lula and one baby died. Elmer married Amanda Fisher and their children were: Lillie, Quinton, Julian, Elsie, Bessie, Schuyler. They also lost one baby. Albert married Henrietta Lawrence and their children were: Celina, a son who died young, and Arthur. -TEXAS COASTAL PIONEERS of Chambers County by Varuna Hartmann Lawrence(1870-1964),page 16: BARBER (b): Lillie married Robert Barrow and their children were: Stella, Forest, Arizona, and Emmory; one tiny babe died. -TEXAS COASTAL PIONEERS of Chambers County by Varuna Hartmann Lawrence(1870-1964),page 18: BARBER (c): Amos and Ann's next child Lillie (Lit) married Robert Barrow. Their children were: Stella married Bill Smith; Forest married Iris Barrow (sic); Arizona married ??; Emory married Georgia Maley. -7Mar1859=BARBERS HILL,CHAMBERS,TX,USA -1860= -1870= -3Feb1878=BARBERS HILL,CHAMBERS,TX,USA: TEXAS COASTAL PIONEERS of Chambers County by Varuna Hartmann Lawrence(1870-1964),page 16: BARBER (b): Lillie married Robert Barrow -1880= -1880=US census of Chambers County,Texas,USA from the Collection of Mary Jean Jackson Abshier(1928-2011) -1880= -5Oct1899=BARBERS HILL,CHAMBERS,TX,USA -Oct1899=BURIAL: BARBER FAMILY LINES,pages 310-311, posted on Ancestry= 6.Lilly Ann Barber, b. March 7,1859, Barbers Hill; d. Oct. 5, 1891 (sic),Barbers Hill, buried there

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