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John A. Barr (Hancock County farmer)

b. 1818-10-11 d. 1901-06-18

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary "Polly" A. Gates Barr in Hancock County on April 11, 1843. Father of Charles R. Barr, John F. Barr, Catherine E. Barr, Thomas A. Barr, Lydia J. Barr, George E. Barr, and Annie M. Barr. Farmer in Hancock County from 1844 to 1863, before moving to Daviess County, Kentucky. Founding member of the Hancock Pond Draining Company in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860. Member of the Methodist Church.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 18.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 2.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hancock County Marriages, Film #000495729, p. 33.

History of Daviess County, Kentucky (Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883), 638; "An Act to Incorporate the Hancock Pond Draining Company, and amend the charter of the Jefferson Pond Draining Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at December Session, 1849 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges & Co.– State Printers, 1849), 390-394.

Find A Grave, "John A. Barr (October 11, 1818-June 18, 1901)," Memorial #74007507, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74007507 (accessed April 11, 2017).

Citation

Barr, John A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209978 (November 12, 2026).

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