Willis Sylvester Barge

1878 - 1953  (74 years)

• Name	Willis Sylvester Barge  [1, 2]
  Birth	10 Nov 1878	Arkansas   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 May 1953	Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas   [2]
  Notes	His Texas Death Certificate shows him as a son of Billie Barge and Mattie Hines of Arkansas. He was listed as a retired farmer, and he was buried at Lost Prarie Cemetery.
  Person ID	I22796	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	William "Billie" George Barge,   b. May 1854, Georgia d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Martha "Mattie" Hines,   b. Aug 1859, Louisiana d. 9 Oct 1936, Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1878
  	According to the 1900 census, William and Martha had been married for 22 years, and she was the mother of 11 children, 6 of whom were still living. Martha's widowed mother, B.A. FOSTER, born May 1836 in Mississippi, was living with them. Mrs. Foster was the mother of 8 children total, 4 of them still living.
  Family ID	F5677	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 10 Nov 1878 - Arkansas Death - 25 May 1953 - Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S308] 1880 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005., (1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ? Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls. This database is an index to 50 million individuals enumerated in the 1880 United States Federal Census. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, occupation, relationship to the head of household, race, sex, age at last birthday, marital status, place of birth, parents? place of birth. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1880 Federal Census.), Census Place Buena Vista, Columbia, Arkansas Family History Library Film 1254041 NA Film Number T9-0041 Page Number 217A (Reliability: 3). [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/).