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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/16/2025)

Found in the Daughters of the American Revolution Cemetery Collection compiled in 1940, parts of which were donated by the Joseph Ligon Chapter of Paris & copied by Sallie Lee Lightfoot of Paris. The book was located in the Corsicana Genealogical Library, Corsicana, TX., & copied by Betsy Mills & Elizabeth House. The grave was not found in a survey done in 1992.

For more information contact Billy G. Barber; P.O. Box 216; Byrdstown, TN, 38549; 19 Oct 1994.

John B. Barber is found in the book YANKS & SOME REBS IN TEXAS 1890, by Ericson Books, TX, a transcription of the 1890 Lamar Co. Census of veterans of the Civil War. He served as Pvt., Co. C, 13th KY Cav. from Oct 1862 - Nov 1864. It also shows he suffured from 'lung disease.' There was no 13th KY Cavalry in the service of the CSA.

Information from Lynn Williams, 2 Dec 1998, 22 Kittiwake Ct., The Woodlands, TX 77380: Son of Levi and Ursula Lawson Barber. John Briggle Barber married first in Dec. 1857 in Clinton Co., KY to Nancy Jane Dickens. He married second to Luella Rodgers on 9 Jun 1901 in Lamar County.

There are two death dates for this record. The County Death Records show 12 Dec. There must have been a tombstone at one time that showed 21 Dec as read by Sallie Lee Lightfoot.