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John Wesley Barker (Clark County, Indiana, blacksmith and city watchman, agent)

b. 1832 d. 1908

Clark County, Indiana, blacksmith, city watchman, and agent. Indiana native. Son of Noble Barker and Margaret Barker. Married to Anna M. Cash Barker. Father of Sarah Barker, John W. Barker, and Anna Barker. Blacksmith in Clark County, Indiana, in 1850. City watchman in Jeffersonville in 1860. Agent for the State of Indiana in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, p. 161A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, p. 400.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, Ward 5, p.500A.

"John Wesley Barker (1832-1908)," Find A Grave, Memorial #10179146, accessed June 4, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10179146.

Citation

Barker, John Wesley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214826 (November 12, 2026).

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