George D. Barger (1887)George D. Barger, a pioneer and farmer, was born in Shawneetown in 1832. He is the youngest of seven children of Jacob and Elizabeth (Seaton) Barger. The father, of German origin and born in Pennsylvania, was the son of Geo. Barger, Sr. He went to Breckenridge County when a young man, and learned the carpenter's trade. He married in 1809. And after 1815 he was a farmer and carpenter of Shawneetown, and died in 1847. The mother was born in Kentucky in 1787, and died in 1860. She was a member of the Regular Baptist Church. Educated at Shawneetown, our subject, in 1854, was married to Lucy E., daughter of Henry A. and Ann Floyd of Union County, Ky., where she was born in 1830. Four of their seven children are living: Jos. T., Lucy G., Maud E. and Nathaniel B. After 1865 he moved from near Shawneetown to his present fine farm of eighty acres in Section 22, four and one-half miles from that city. Always a Democrat, he first voted for Buchanan. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. [1887. History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties, Illinois. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 525.] is maintained by Jon Musgrave. © 1998 You are our 1168 visitor — thanks for stopping by! |