*Death year approximate.
Laura Barker was born the same year her father Joseph died. We see her at 1 year old on the August 30, 1850, census where she and her widowed mother Lucinda, her 3-year-old sister Sarah Elizabeth, and her father Joseph's underage brothers Aaron and John, were all living with her father's sister Rosanna and her husband John Watson and their children.
Joseph could not have been dead long, and Laura's uncles John Watson and Aaron Barker were working as millers. They also had a hired man there as a miller. John Watson as head of household is listed as owning the property, so it was no doubt their mill.
Joseph and Lucinda's older boy, 11-year-old Commodore Perry Barker, was living with another brother of his dad's, James Barker, and no doubt helping him on his farm, as James and "Mandana"'s own children were too young.
By the 1860 census, we find Lucinda still living with John and Rosanna Watson, with 13-year-old daughter Sarah, but no Laura. So she must have passed between 1850 and 1860, but no records or headstone has surfaced to clarify when.
The child count on the 1840 census would indicate there were probably other children lost as well. Even if it were argued that the 1840 census was not this family, the 7-year gap between Commodore and Sarah is indication enough.
by Lila Cole
Laura Barker was born the same year her father Joseph died. We see her at 1 year old on the August 30, 1850, census where she and her widowed mother Lucinda, her 3-year-old sister Sarah Elizabeth, and her father Joseph's underage brothers Aaron and John, were all living with her father's sister Rosanna and her husband John Watson and their children.
Joseph could not have been dead long, and Laura's uncles John Watson and Aaron Barker were working as millers. They also had a hired man there as a miller. John Watson as head of household is listed as owning the property, so it was no doubt their mill.
Joseph and Lucinda's older boy, 11-year-old Commodore Perry Barker, was living with another brother of his dad's, James Barker, and no doubt helping him on his farm, as James and "Mandana"'s own children were too young.
By the 1860 census, we find Lucinda still living with John and Rosanna Watson, with 13-year-old daughter Sarah, but no Laura. So she must have passed between 1850 and 1860, but no records or headstone has surfaced to clarify when.
The child count on the 1840 census would indicate there were probably other children lost as well. Even if it were argued that the 1840 census was not this family, the 7-year gap between Commodore and Sarah is indication enough.
by Lila Cole
*Death year approximate.
Laura Barker was born the same year her father Joseph died. We see her at 1 year old on the August 30, 1850, census where she and her widowed mother Lucinda, her 3-year-old sister Sarah Elizabeth, and her father Joseph's underage brothers Aaron and John, were all living with her father's sister Rosanna and her husband John Watson and their children.
Joseph could not have been dead long, and Laura's uncles John Watson and Aaron Barker were working as millers. They also had a hired man there as a miller. John Watson as head of household is listed as owning the property, so it was no doubt their mill.
Joseph and Lucinda's older boy, 11-year-old Commodore Perry Barker, was living with another brother of his dad's, James Barker, and no doubt helping him on his farm, as James and "Mandana"'s own children were too young.
By the 1860 census, we find Lucinda still living with John and Rosanna Watson, with 13-year-old daughter Sarah, but no Laura. So she must have passed between 1850 and 1860, but no records or headstone has surfaced to clarify when.
The child count on the 1840 census would indicate there were probably other children lost as well. Even if it were argued that the 1840 census was not this family, the 7-year gap between Commodore and Sarah is indication enough.
by Lila Cole
Laura Barker was born the same year her father Joseph died. We see her at 1 year old on the August 30, 1850, census where she and her widowed mother Lucinda, her 3-year-old sister Sarah Elizabeth, and her father Joseph's underage brothers Aaron and John, were all living with her father's sister Rosanna and her husband John Watson and their children.
Joseph could not have been dead long, and Laura's uncles John Watson and Aaron Barker were working as millers. They also had a hired man there as a miller. John Watson as head of household is listed as owning the property, so it was no doubt their mill.
Joseph and Lucinda's older boy, 11-year-old Commodore Perry Barker, was living with another brother of his dad's, James Barker, and no doubt helping him on his farm, as James and "Mandana"'s own children were too young.
By the 1860 census, we find Lucinda still living with John and Rosanna Watson, with 13-year-old daughter Sarah, but no Laura. So she must have passed between 1850 and 1860, but no records or headstone has surfaced to clarify when.
The child count on the 1840 census would indicate there were probably other children lost as well. Even if it were argued that the 1840 census was not this family, the 7-year gap between Commodore and Sarah is indication enough.
by Lila Cole
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