His parents were Samuel and Sarah Barker.(sources: gravestone inscription & Vital Records of Andover, MA to the end of the year 1849)
His parents were Samuel and Sarah Barker.(sources: gravestone inscription & Vital Records of Andover, MA to the end of the year 1849)
Inscription
ERECTED IN MEMORY OF
DEACON SAMUEL BARKER
WHO WAS BORN OCT. 10TH, 1714
& DEPARTED THIS LIFE
NOV. 11TH 1796, BEING IN
THE 83d YEAR OF HIS AGE.
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Here what the voice from Heaven proclaims,
For all the pious dead:
Sweet is the favor of their names,
And soft their sleeping bed.
Far from the world of toil & strife,
They're present with the Lord:
The labors of their mortal life,
End in a large reward.
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