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Frances “Fannie” <I>McCorkle</I> Barger

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Frances “Fannie” McCorkle Barger

Birth
Collin County, Texas, USA
Death
8 Jan 1884 (aged 22)
Breckenridge, Stephens County, Texas, USA
Burial
Stephens County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Frances is the daughter of Archibald K. (H) McCorkle and Lucretia Jane Howard. Her father died in Macon, Georgia on 12 Sept 1864 from wounds suffered in the Battle for Atlanta during the War Between the States. Her mother remarried and died during childbirth leaving Frances and her siblings orphans.

A few years after marrying William Barger in Collin County,Texas on March 1, 1877, Frances moved to Breckenridge, TX where she is interred at the Old Eolian Cemetery (also known as Buck Mountain Cemetery). After Frances's death, William Barger then married Frances' sister, Anna McCorkle and moved to Spur, Dickens County, TX. William and Anna are interred at the Red Mud Cemetery in Spur, Dickens County, TX.

In the 1990s, a stone was placed in the Red Bud Cemetery for William and Anna along with a memorial stone for Frances by Jerry Fillebrown, Dorles Repass, Faye Keuhl, Frances Adair, Ray Adair II, Buford Barger, Harold Barger, Lester Barger, Louis Hobson, and Mildred Hobson.
Frances is the daughter of Archibald K. (H) McCorkle and Lucretia Jane Howard. Her father died in Macon, Georgia on 12 Sept 1864 from wounds suffered in the Battle for Atlanta during the War Between the States. Her mother remarried and died during childbirth leaving Frances and her siblings orphans.

A few years after marrying William Barger in Collin County,Texas on March 1, 1877, Frances moved to Breckenridge, TX where she is interred at the Old Eolian Cemetery (also known as Buck Mountain Cemetery). After Frances's death, William Barger then married Frances' sister, Anna McCorkle and moved to Spur, Dickens County, TX. William and Anna are interred at the Red Mud Cemetery in Spur, Dickens County, TX.

In the 1990s, a stone was placed in the Red Bud Cemetery for William and Anna along with a memorial stone for Frances by Jerry Fillebrown, Dorles Repass, Faye Keuhl, Frances Adair, Ray Adair II, Buford Barger, Harold Barger, Lester Barger, Louis Hobson, and Mildred Hobson.


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