Bare History from my notes

Chapter One: Bare History in Germany and Switzerland

The Bare family moved to Augusta County, Virginia from Philadelphia in the late 1700’s.

Chapter Two: John & Barbara Bare

Rockingham County, Virginia history. John Bare married Barbara. Before leaving Virginia, John left his son John, Jr. his property. According to Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia by ______, “4th February 1752. Jacob Bare and Barbara to John Bare. Little Fork Run of North River Shanando; corner Charles Robinson.”

Owen Christian Bare was born in Pennsylvania on December 4, 1782. He married Catherine Pierce (she went by the nickname Polly) and together they had twelve children. Owen married Margaret Cummings after Catherine’s death. He died while living in Jefferson, Illinois, on June 5, 1864. He is buried at Mount Catherine Christian Cemetery in Woodlawn which is part of Jefferson County, Illinois. Photographs of his grave can be found at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46314427.

William Jacob Bare was born in Tennessee on April 14, 1809 when his parents were en route from Virginia to Indiana. Along with Owen and Polly were Owen's parents, Jacob and Barbara Bare and Owen's brothers and sisters except little brother John who stayed in Augusta, Virginia until his death. His first wife was Nancy Copple. Ted Copple, the famous newscaster, is a distant cousin of our family. William Jacob and Nancy had three children together. After Nancy passed away, William Jacob married Elizabeth Williams in Illinois. He passed away in Piggott, Arkansas, although no death record has been located. Piggott was originally in the county of Greene but Greene County was split and made into Clay County later on.

 

*http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=JCoSAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader

*Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 by Lyman, page 376

*Marriage in December 1830 in Washington County, Indiana

 

An example of 1830s lady’s fashion

An example of men’s fashion in 1830

Unfortunately the Federal Census records from 1890 were lost forever in a fire in January 1921.

In 1900 Dicie is listed as Head of Household on the Federal Census and is widowed. Her father and mother were born in Tennessee. She was born in February 1857 and she was 43 years old at the time of the census. She had been married for 23 years and had a total of 11 children, 7 of whom were still alive. Two sons were listed as living with her: Lewis, 16 and David, 8. Lewis was born in November 1883 and David was born September 1891. They were both born in Arkansas. Also living with Dixie are two boys, Joe and Ollin Hardin. Joe is listed as a nephew while Ollin is listed as a son (mistake?). Joe is 20 years old and Ollin is 12- both were also born in Arkansas.

Dicie may have married a J. N. Barnwell on 8/29/1901, however more evidence is needed.

David Christian Bare and Nessie Hunsaker were both residents of Malden, Missouri, which is a city in the county of Dunklin. David and Nessie were married on February 21, 1913.

In 1920 David Christian Bare was living in Cotton Hill, a township in the county of Dunklin in Missouri. He was 29 years old and was married to Nessie Hunsaker. At that time they had three children: five-year old Goldie, Louise was three, and Harold was one. David’s mother Dicie is living with them and is 64 years old. Cotton Hill is in what is called “The Cotton Belt.” Several inhabitants make their living as sharecroppers. My grandmother told me a story once about working in the cotton fields and how bad her back would hurt from picking.