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My Great, Great Grandparents: Lonnie Monroe Thornton and Mary Ellen Barker Thornton.

Harvey and Icie Fern Barker

Judith Louise Trinklein

Joey Barker

Rhonda Sue Barker

Leslie Barker

Gray Barker

Gray Barker

Bessie Barker

Pearl (Beedles) Barker gravesite

Bobby Gean Barker gravesite

Brooks Neil Barker

Whitney K. (Graham) Barker

1935 Lockwood High School, 1935

Sidney Lee Williams

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In 1923, in the year that Hugh A Barker was born, Harlem's Cotton Club opened in New York City. Owned by a bootlegger and gangster, it was a 700 seat speakeasy that catered to a "white only" clientele. But most of the entertainers were African-American and featured some of the best entertainers of the time such as Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, Ethel Waters, and Cab Calloway.

In 1958, he was 35 years old when on March 24th, Elvis Presley was inducted into the United States Army. Although he could have served in Special Services as an entertainer, he chose to become a regular soldier. Almost everyone thought it would be the end of his career - it wasn't.

In 1962, at the age of 39 years old, Hugh was alive when on October 1st, African-American James H. Meredith, escorted by federal marshals, registered at the University of Mississippi - becoming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated college. He had been inspired by President Kennedy's inaugural address to apply for admission.

In 1984, he was 61 years old when due to outrage about "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (it seemed too "dark" to many and it was rated PG), a new rating was devised - PG-13. The first film rated PG-13 was "Red Dawn".

In 1993, at the age of 70 years old, Hugh was alive when on February 26th, a truck bomb exploded in the garage under the North Tower of the World Trade Center. While the bomb didn't do what was planned (collapse the North Tower into the South Tower), it did kill six people and injured thousands of people.