This is my mother's mother, Martha Love Barker. She was from Shawneetown, Illinois. Her parents were James Barker & Martha Patsey Love Emmitt. Her grandfather Rev Emmitt was a Methodist minister. Her brother Thomas sent the money for her & Aunt Mary & Uncle Emmett to go by riverboat to New Orleans, a ship to Panama where they crossed the Isthmus, and up to San Francisco by ship. They talked about fellow travelers eating monkey when they crossed Panama overland.
Bethel, would love to see if your Barkers are my Barkers. Had them in Shawneetown and other counties nearby. Mine came to IL from ME by way of KY ca 1818. They came with Thompson family. All the names you have mentioned and others, Tate, Carr, Phillips, Potter, etc were in their line in early 1800's. Moved around IL to several counties after 1830. PUTNAM, FULTON, MARION, CLAY, and JACKSON counties from 2nd generation. First Barker I remember was named Abel.
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Martha Love (Barker) Lewis was born on December 9, 1840, and died at age 43 years old on April 7, 1884. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Martha Love (Barker) Lewis.
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Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.
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