I was born in Winston-Salem, NC to Lloyd Walter Barker and Jean Largen Barker.

I have always had a great enjoyment in learning the history of my family which consist of my mothers side, Largen (Carroll Cty, VA) & Hall (Patrick Cty, VA) and my fathers side, Barker (Polk Cty, MN and Iowa) & Meissner (Polk Cty, MN) and the history of Winston-Salem, NC. I really enjoy visiting local and not so local cemeteries and hope I can help in some way to help others to locate deceased loved ones.

Dear Ancestor-

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I'd exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
-Author Unknown-

I was born in Winston-Salem, NC to Lloyd Walter Barker and Jean Largen Barker.

I have always had a great enjoyment in learning the history of my family which consist of my mothers side, Largen (Carroll Cty, VA) & Hall (Patrick Cty, VA) and my fathers side, Barker (Polk Cty, MN and Iowa) & Meissner (Polk Cty, MN) and the history of Winston-Salem, NC. I really enjoy visiting local and not so local cemeteries and hope I can help in some way to help others to locate deceased loved ones.

Dear Ancestor-

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I'd exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
-Author Unknown-