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Anna “Annie” <I>McCorkle</I> Barger

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Anna “Annie” McCorkle Barger

Birth
Collin County, Texas, USA
Death
1887 (aged 23–24)
Dickens County, Texas, USA
Burial
Spur, Dickens County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 33.4261226, Longitude: -100.9994799
Plot
E-34
Memorial ID
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Anna is the daughter of Archibald K. (H) McCorkle and Lucretia Jane Howard. Her father died in Macon, Georgia on 12 Sept 1864 from wounds suffered in the Battle for Atlanta during the War Between the States. Her mother remarried and died during childbirth leaving Frances and her siblings orphans.

After her mother's death, Anna lived with her grandmother, Eliza Brown Pettit Howard in Collin County, TX and later with her married sister, Frances McCorkle Barger and Frances's husband, William Barger. Anna moved with the Bargers to Stephens County, Texas where her sister, Frances, died.

Anna then married the husband of her deceased sister Frances, William Barger, and with him and his four children by Frances, moved to Spur, Dickens County, TX. In Spur, William and Ann became the parents of two children: Stella Barger and Oliver Hough (Huff) Barger.

William Barger died in Spur, TX, leaving Anna alone with the six children. Anna died of tuberculosis in Spur, Dickens County, TX. She and William are interred at the Red Mud Cemetery in Spur, TX.

In the 1990s, a stone was placed in the Red Bud Cemetery for William and Anna along with a memorial stone for Frances by Jerry Fillebrown, Dorles Repass, Faye Keuhl, Frances Adair, Ray Adair II, Buford Barger, Harold Barger, Lester Barger, Louis Hobson, and Mildred Hobson.
Anna is the daughter of Archibald K. (H) McCorkle and Lucretia Jane Howard. Her father died in Macon, Georgia on 12 Sept 1864 from wounds suffered in the Battle for Atlanta during the War Between the States. Her mother remarried and died during childbirth leaving Frances and her siblings orphans.

After her mother's death, Anna lived with her grandmother, Eliza Brown Pettit Howard in Collin County, TX and later with her married sister, Frances McCorkle Barger and Frances's husband, William Barger. Anna moved with the Bargers to Stephens County, Texas where her sister, Frances, died.

Anna then married the husband of her deceased sister Frances, William Barger, and with him and his four children by Frances, moved to Spur, Dickens County, TX. In Spur, William and Ann became the parents of two children: Stella Barger and Oliver Hough (Huff) Barger.

William Barger died in Spur, TX, leaving Anna alone with the six children. Anna died of tuberculosis in Spur, Dickens County, TX. She and William are interred at the Red Mud Cemetery in Spur, TX.

In the 1990s, a stone was placed in the Red Bud Cemetery for William and Anna along with a memorial stone for Frances by Jerry Fillebrown, Dorles Repass, Faye Keuhl, Frances Adair, Ray Adair II, Buford Barger, Harold Barger, Lester Barger, Louis Hobson, and Mildred Hobson.


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