BARKLEY - still try'n to fill holes

[Robert A Carter]

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Ok... The book my aunt (Benita Ruth (Shields) Barkley) did starts out
with John Calvin Barkley and wife Rose Ann McFarland, from the Ulster
Plantation, Country Tyrone, Ireland, Rose Ann was born in Dublin,
Ireland. They had 5 children:

William Barkley, John Barkley, ??? Robert Barkley, Mary Barkley, and
Henry Barkley
Benita did all the work on Henry Barkley and I have nothing for the
other 4 children. That is where I really want to explore but anything
on the Henry Barkley side will do too.

Henry was born around 1772 in Ireland and died 24 Apr 1857, in Jasper
Co., IN.
1st wife was Mary Robb and they had 2 children,
George Robb Barekly - b: 9 jun 1803 d: Feb 1871, age 67, Monticello,
White
County, Indiana
John Barkley - died as an infant
2nd wife was Zilpha Catherine Moore and they had 9 children
Isabella Moore Barkley b: 14 Jan 1813 d: 24 Aug 1892 Burial Barkley
Cem. Jasper Co. IN
Robert McFarland Barkley b: 12 Jan 1815 d: 20 Feb 1873 Married Margaret
Elizabeth Shaw
Mary Waters Barkley b: 13 Feb 1817 d: 27 Jan 1892 Married William Kenton
Parkison both in Barkley Cem.
John calvin Barkley b: 21 mar 1819 d: 9 Jul 1904 Married Rebecca Moore
William Moses Barkley b: 19 Aug 1821 d: 30 Jun 1899 Married Mary Jane
Dawson
Margaret Barkley b: 25 Apr 1824 d: 3 Mar 1835
Mancy Jane Barkley b: 25 Jun 1827 d: 2 May 1900 Married William B. Shaw
both buried in Barkley Cem.
Henry Alexander Barkley b: 22 Nov 1829 d: 28 Jan 1888 Married Sarah
Carrie Bull both in Barkley cem.
Rose Ann Barkley b: 9 Mar 1832 d: 29 Nov 1910 Married William Wallace
Murray both in Barkley Cem.

John Calvin Barkley is where she branched off here again.
John and Rebecca had 7 children
Rosa Belle Barkley b: 26 May 1862 d Nov 1934
Anna Laura Barkley b: 16 Jul 1864 d: 1 Jan 1883
Marshall Barkley b: 26 Sep 1865 d: 13 Dec 1961
Ruby Ellen Barkley b: 26 jan 1867 d: 1906
Zilpha Jane Barkley b: 2 Feb 1869 d 26 May 1950
Juniata May Barkley b: 1 Sep 1873 d: 24 Nov 1882
Calvin Leo Barkley b: 3 Nov 1881 d: 18 Nov 1967 Married Cora Myrtle
Taylor

Here we jump to Calvin Leo Barkley

Calvin and Cora (We called her Granny B) had 2 sons
Ned Calvin Barkley b: 13 Oct 1909 Married Lena Pearl Jacobs and lives in
Sarcoxie, Missouri
Calvin Junior Barkley b: 17 Jan 1914 Married Laveda Iris Hunter

Ned and Lena Pearl had 3 children
Lowell Allen Barkley - Stillborn
Benita Ruth Barkley - Author of the book and lives in Carthage Missouri
Nedra Ann Barkley - My Mom lives in Bois D'Arc Missouri Married Jack
Carter

Nedra and Jack had 2 children
Melissa Kay Carter - b: 25 Feb 1965 lives in PA
Robert Alan Carter - b: 7 Apr 1963 - ME - I live in Del City Oklahoma.

HERE IS SOME INFO FROM THE PAGES IN BENITA'S BOOK

BARKLEY FAMILY TRADITIONS AND STORIES page 7

Much of the family history is oral stories with a few carefully
preserved letters and Bibles. Often the stories differ slightly within
the groups but each has information that shouldn’t be lost. This
foundation is to aid further research as old records come to light.

JOHN & ROSE
Our story begins with John Calvin Barkley, and his wife, Rose
Ann
McFarland, of County Tyrone, Ireland.

John Calvin and Rose Ann were the parents of Henry Barkley, who
is the
subject of this work. The majority of this oral and written information
comes through Henry Barkley’s sons, Robert McFarland, John Calvin and
William Moses, & daughter, Mary Parkison.

In the early 1900’s, Marshall Barkley was writing a journal with
bits
of family history. He wrote that (Grandfather Henry has no headstone
but his grave site is marked. - In May 1900, Henry’s daughter, Jane
Shaw, bought a stone for her parents, 43 years after Henry’s death.

TYRONE COUNTY OR DUBLIN?
Marshall’s journal contains the following notes about his
great-grandfather, John Barkley.

John came to America 1774
Brought wife, don’t know her name, and son was Henry Moses Barkley
John was one of 3 brothers from Tyrone Co., Ireland
The name Barkley thought to be an alias because of trouble with the
British Crown.
John fought with Geo. Washington at Valley Forge winter of 1777. After
the war, he left his wife and family here, returned to Ireland where he
was arrested in 1805, tried for treason. Irish nobility helped him
escape to France.

In 1932, Martha (Parkinson) Mills, grand-daughter of Mary
(Barkley)
Parkison, was exchanging letters with Isabelle (Barkley) Day, daughter
of Robert McFarland Barkley.

Bell’s story; the parents of Henry Barkley were John Calvin
Barkley, a
fourth generation John, and his wife, Rose Ann McFarland Barkley, both
born & died Dublin, Ireland. Martha thought the names were Robert
Barkley and Rose Ann McFarland. She also said they were from Dublin,
and added Henry Barkley’s parents did not accompany their children to
America.

William Moses Barkley’s son, Robert, wrote about his
grandfather, a
letter dated 10 Jan 1923;
- Grandfather came to the United States from County Tyrone,
Ireland,
and name was Henry.... He was Scotch Irish & had relations in Ireland by
the name McFarland. -

Louise Hoover, also of William Moses branch, added to the story
that -
Our Gramp landed in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania around 1797. Our
Barkley’s were from one of the Ulster Plantations of Northern Ireland,
Tyrone County. -

REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE?

Mary Parkison’s group believe the Barkley’s were not in America
early
enough to serve in the Revolutionary War. Two of her younger brothers
families, believed otherwise.

William Moses son, Reuben Jett’s oral history was that Henry
Barkley’s
father, John Calvin Barkley of Tyrone County, Ireland, fought with
George Washington in the Revolution. In 1940, brother, Cal, omitting
some of the details found in a personal journal.
His letter read:
- John Barkley, our great-grandfather was a gunsmith in
Washington’s
Army at Valley Forge. After the war he returned to Ireland, was
arrested for treason, reported to have escaped to France. Left his
family in the U.S. when he went back to Ireland. I don’t know his
wife’s name. -

There were several John Barkley’s in the Revolution but the
National
Archives has no record of a John Barkley serving as a - gunsmith - from
PA, at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78.

THREE BROTHERS?
Several tell stories of Barkley brothers coming to America
together.
Henry’s daughter, Mary Parkison named the brothers as Henry, John, and
William Barkley. Henry’s grandson, Max, called them Henry, John and
Robert Barkley.

William Moses son, Robert McFarland, continued his 10 Jan 1923
letter,
that his Grandfather Henry -... had a brother who came at the same
time, but I never heard his name and have no way of finding out now. I
understood that Grandfather Henry & his brother separated soon after
they came to the U.S. & that Grandfather never heard from his brother
afterwards. -

Henry’s son, John Calvin, didn’t state names but gave locations
for
settlement. Henry settled first in PA, then moved into Indiana. One
brother went into North Carolina & the third back to Ireland. John
Calvin added the brothers were related to the Irish nobility, but no
written records have been found to verify this.

ONE SISTER?
In 1932, when Martha Mills and Belle Day were exchanging
letters, both
families held the tradition of Henry Barkley bringing his sister, Mary
Barkley to America to marry a McFarland, probably a cousin. Mary had
one child dying as an infant before her husband died. Then she married
a man named Hylands.

Frances E. (McEwen) Bostwick of Rensselaer, IN, believed she was
related to Henry Barkley’s family through his sister, Mary (Barkley)
McFarland Hylands. her DAR application outlined on p.12, shows her a
granddaughter of John Stewart McEwen & Isabelle Barkley (Hylands)
McEwen. She believed Isabelle Barkley McEwen was the niece of our Henry
Barkley.

Henry Barkley’s oldest son, George Robb, left 40 acres to his -
nephew,
William F. McEwen - in his will written 5 January 1871. The term -
nephew - was probably a term of endearment rather than an actual
relationship.

BROTHER WILLIAM?
Martha Mills story continues that Henry Barkley and his sister,
Mary,
had a brother, William Barkley, who came to America after their
arrival. One story about William survived, saying he had a daughter who
cold stand in a half-bushel basket and shoulder two bushels of wheat.
Also, William was a very high-tempered man and was once sued for
insulting a neighbor. The neighbor allowed his horses to get into
William’s fields on several occasions. He was not - polite - in
requesting their immediate removal, and was sued for his outburst; he
had called the man a derogatory name.

HENRY MOSES BARKLEY?
As for Henry’s full name, his youngest son, Henry Alexander,
believed
his father was named Henry Moses Barkley but he did not like his middle
name and therefore, rarely used it. His grandson Marshall, used Henry
Moses in his 1900 journal but not in letters or conversations.

William Moses grandson, Reuben Jett, and his great-grandson Lynn
Diehl,
recorded his name as Henry Moses Barkley. (Lynn’s record written 1965.)

Most papers he would have signed are simply Henry Barkley.
Since his
wife, Zilpha, had a brother named Moses Moore, it is quite possible the
name was mixed up in the verbal history. With these discrepancies, and
possibly - with his wishes - , he will be referred to as Henry Barkley
for this work.

Henry’s naturalizations papers give only the one name, and no
location
in Ireland for his birth.

Marshall, continued his written record for his brother, Cal:
- Henry Barkley, our grandfather, born in Ireland in the
1700’s. He
married twice; first wife Mary Robb, mother of two sons, George Robb &
John. John died as a child before his mother. Then Henry married
Zilpha Moore (Our Grandmother) at Lewistown, PA. I remember her. A
large family, they settled east of Rensselaer, Indiana, south of the
Pinkamink River. The Barkley’s settled in Jasper County.... Then
Parkison’s came soon.-

Ned C. Barkley, John Calvin’s grandson, says the “three
brothers’
story he remembers being told was that these young men - left Ireland
because of the trouble and turmoil of the Irish rebellion. They had
been supplying guns to the rebels, were about to be arrested, and left
Ireland on the run. Once in America, Henry Barkley went to
Pennsylvania, one brother to North Carolina/Kentucky, and the other went
west -. After some years, the brother in the west left his family here,
and went back to Ireland, to see what might be left of the family
estates. After arriving, he was arrested for treason. -

There are two versions of what happened to him next. One oral
story
said he was killed attempting to escape. The other written version was
that he escaped to France and died there. At any rate, he was never
heard of again.

Many have accounts of relationship to the former Vice President
Alben
William Barkley. Those stories with names and relationships, were not
written down and have been forgotten. These bits of oral history may
enable someone to discover new things about these people and their
lives. So we keep searching and enjoying the Process.

Hope this helps and is not to much to digest.... Thanks

Robert A. Carter
dake...@icon.net