Henry Barker came west from Virginia and arrived in Cape Girardeau County Missouri between 1870 and 1880. His actual date of birth is likely to be as given (about 1831). His likely county of birth in Virginia was Lee County as his father Henry Abraham Barker is documented as living in that county in 1830. No death record has been found so the DoD given is speculative and based upon his last documented appearance (in the 1890 veterans census, Finley Township, Webster County) and a few supporting but undocumented facts. His likely PoD was Webster County somewhere near Finley and Seymour (given as his place of residence in 1890), but again there is no currently existing grave or other supported documentation.

Updated 23 Nov 2020, the now added newspaper article appears to be a notice of the Death of Henry J. Barker. The article is dated 6 Apr 1893 and was published in Marshfield, Webster County Missouri. The column the article appeared in was titled Seymour Notes and may indicate that the column originally came from a publication named the Seymour Enterprise.

Henry made the following "stops" on his way to Missouri.

1840 Lee County, VA (family of Henry Abraham Barker)
1850 District 31 Lee County, VA
1860 District 3 Sullivan County, TN
1870 District 15 Overton County, TN
1880 Byrd, Cape Girardeau County. MO

Families (Vitals provided for family members without an FAG memorial)

First Wife and children
Melvina/Elvina Feathers b. abt 1832 Sullivan County, TN, d. abt 1885?, m. abt. 1853 TN.
1. John H. Barker
2. Marshall Wallace Barker b. abt. 1856 TN, d. abt. 1896
3. William F. Barker b. abt. 1860, d, abt. 1890
4. Charles Barker b. abt. 1862
5. Sarah Barker b. abt. 1864
6. Eli Barker b. abt. 1866
7. James M Barker b. abt. 1868
8. Alfred Barker b. abt. 1872 TN, d. bef. 1900
9. George Washington Barker

Second Wife and children
Sarah C. Patrick m. 2 Oct 1885 Douglas County MO.
1. Norman Delore Barker
2. Sophia Barker
3. Lena Margaret Barker
4. Elmer Leroy Barker
5. Christopher Columbus Barker

Henry also held a land patent issued 23 Nov 1891 for the
following in Webster County. MO.

North West quarter of section 20 in township 28 North Range 17 West of the fifth Principle Meridian in Missouri, containing 160 acres.

This is located very close to what was then and is still Sarvis Point (occasionally referred to as Dogwood, not to be confused with Dogwood in Douglas County MO), Webster County, MO.