D. Barber

Family/Spouse: J.G. Carek. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: E. Cena. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Last address he lived at: 1309 Columbus, Manitowac, Wisconsin, 54220

1910 CENSUS DATA FOR LUCE COUNTY
"Surname", "GivenName", "Born","Born","Father","Mother","Imm"
"Barber", "James E", 1899, "MI", "CAN" ,"MI",

Listed in 1900 Michigan Census, Alger County, Burt Twp (ED# 3, Page 6B)

Listed in 1910 Michigan Census, Luce County, Columbus Twp (ED# 155, Page 9B)

Listed in 1920 Michigan Census, Luce County, McMillan Twp (ED# 197, Page 3B)

James married Rose Koniack. Rose was born on 28 Nov 1905; died on 05 Aug 2000 in Mantiowac, Mantiowac County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Marriage verified by Jim Richards.

Notes:

Worked for the state of Michigan grading roads. Sold illegal liquer in Michigan during prohibition. Lived on Dollarville road, between Newberry and Dollarville.!Worked for the state of Michigan grading roads. Cut timber in northern Michigan

James had part of his finger cut off in a lumber accident. When he would go to masqurade parties he would wear a glove to hide the fact

1897
Jim met Cora as she was cooking in a hotel at Grand Marais, Mi. They married in Grand Marais and their first two children, Roy and James, were born in Grand Marais, Mi..

1904
In 1904 Jim went back to Harrisville and stayed with his uncle Nicholas.

Cora went down to the train station to meet him when she was pregnant with Forest Lee Barber. There was no one there to meet her so she sat down on a timber pile and began to cry. Forest (Bub) was born in Harrisville in Sep of 1904. Also, Mary Louise was born in Harrisville in July 1906.

Jim was going to build a shingle mill.
1907
The family returned to Newberry

Jim worked at Gilleses shingle mill; (go to the Watson Hill outside Newberry and turn right.)

Jim sr. played the violin; Louise would get up and dance.

Moved into his dad's house

The family was extremely hard-up. Once while Jim was down in the lower Peninsula working with his uncle Nicholas, Cora sent her oldest boy, James Earl, to the grocery store to get a loaf of bread on credit until Jim returned from the lower pennisula. The store owner would'nt give it to him so Cora and her kids went and searched garbage cans for something to eat.

At night Cora would have to leave a coal-oil lantern burning on the table becasue the rats would jump up onto the table in search of food.
1909
Moved to McMillian
Bur (Forest) didn't go to school
Earl was in the 3rd grade.1910
Jim got a job at Grand Marais on the railroad.

He was there three months when the rails were pulled away; came out just ahead of pulling up the rails.

Moved back to McMillian; worked in a shingle mill

Florence Irene was born in Cousino (McMillion), Mi. in June, 1910.
1911

Worked the shingle mill until the town died.

1912
Moved to Dollarville. Stayed in the South Shore Cedar Co. boarding house for two weeks then moved to Dollarville, Mi. Jim worked different jobs; i.e. locomotive fireman; engineer, cemetery sextant in Forest Home Cemetery, lumber camps, drove truck for the state of Mich., etc. over the next dozen or so years.

Jim would come home durnk and be unable to climb the stairs to the house porch. He told Cora that the reason he couldn't climb the stairs was because of his rhumetism.

1921
Moved up the hill next to Edna just west of Newberry. Lived in a converted schoolhouse.

Note: Jim had a cousin William Barber who was a lawyer in Alpena. He always referred to him as that crooked lawyer.
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Just prior to Christmas Jim was drinking and speeding up Dollarville Road. He was pulled over by the police and taken to jail. There he remained until Christmas day when a local lawyer in Newberry was able to get him out of jail.

Jim found out that George Clark the proprietor of a local store in Dollarville had turned him in to the police and was the cause of his arrest. Jim harbored ill feelings toward George Clark long after that time. In 1936, Jim was down visiting his daughter Annabell at her home in Dollarville, Mi. He and Annabell's husbnd Tarzen where sitting there drinking beer. After downing several beers Jim found out that Tarzen had purchased the beer at George Clark's store. He jumped up, ran out into the yard and stuck his finger down his throat to throw up the beer that Tarzen purchased from George Clark..

Mrs. Cook always seemed stuck up to Jim's daughter Annabell. She was a real little, homely women. Annabell later learned that the reason she would not acknowledge Annabell is because she was having an affair with Jim Barber. Annabell overheard her mother asking her father if he was going to her funeral and he said no. Jim had lots of affairs when he was younger. Cora was sickly and couldn't do anything about it. One affair he had was with Cora's sister Edna. Edna's husband committed suicide and she eventually moved in with Jim and Cora. She was living with them when Edna was born. Edna's daughter asked Annabell if she saw her mother come out of Jimmy's bedroom. Cora was down in lower Michigan visiting relatives at the time.

Moonshine

Jim used a clothes boiler to make his mooneshine in his kitchen. When he was ready to brew he would close all the windows and doors and had his son Earl out to keep people away. He would then have his dad help bottle and cap it. James Earl, who just returned from service in WWI, would put on his uniform and march back and forth with his rifle as though he were a military sentry.

The police arrested Jim for making moonshine and he was sent to Marquette prison for a short time.

Jim made and sold moonshine during prohibtion. He would take his daughter Annabell, a suitcase full of moonshine and travel to uptown Newberry where he would go to the local hotel and pretend he was from out of town. While there, he would unload his moonshine wares.

Jim would send the kids up to Lavender's Bakery to purchase the yeast for his moonshine. After brewing the potions of moonshine, he would carry it into the post office, put it down and do whatever business he had to do there. Then he would pick it up and take it to McLains in the Long Branch saloon. That is where he would sell it.

Jim found an easy way to get rid of the mash from his moonshine business. He would dig a hole in the pen where he kept his pigs and bury the mash. This was supposedly a safe place. What he didn't calculate for was that the pigs would root up the mash and eat it. This they did and they became gloriously drunk. Cora not knowing that the pigs had consummed the mash became hysterical because she thought all the pigs were sick and dying.

He worked at a small park at East Lake as an attendant. Often women would come by and have him take their picture. He would only shoot their legs. The next year they would return and show him the picture.

1910 CENSUS DATA FOR LUCE COUNTY
"Surname", "GivenName", "Born", "Born", "Father" ,"Mother", "Imm"
"Barber", "James" ,1872, "CAN", "CAN", "CAN"

Listed in 1880 Michigan Census, Alcona County, Alcona Twp (ED#1, Page 26)
- Lists age as 6 yrs old.

Listed in 1900 Michigan Census, Alger County, Burt Twp (ED# 3, Page 6B)
- List birthdate as Apr 1877

Listed in 1910 Michigan Census, Luce County, Columbus Twp (ED# 155, Page 9B)

Listed in 1920 Michigan Census, Luce County, McMillan Twp (ED# 197, Page 3B)

Listed in 1930 Michigan Census, Luce County, McMillan Twp (ED# 48-4, Page 3B)

James married Cora Mae Hilliard on 10 Jan 1897 in Grand Marais, Alger County, Michigan. Cora was born on 02 May 1877 in Bear Lake Township, Manistee County, Michigan; died on 25 Nov 1949 in Tahquamenon Falls Hospital; was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Newberry, Luce County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

While they moved their house across the ice on Hubbard Lake, Cora baked bread.

Jim Barber came home one time and found Cora trying to kill herself with poison; he stopped her from it. She had a rough life. When Jim got older, they got a long better then.

"Cora Mae Hilliard, the daughter of Stephen and Lucy Hilliard, came to bless their pioneer home on the second day of May, 1877, in Onekama Township. She spent her childhood and attended a country school where she, with several sisters and brothers, was bereft of a mothers care at a tender age, but carried on as best she could until she reached the age of 19, when uncle Al Hilliard, visited the family and on his return to the upper peninsula Cora Mae accompanied him and was a welcome addition of his household until she met James Barber whom she married at Grand Marais. The Barbers celebrated their golden wedding three years ago this January at their home in Newberry, their six children attending - Earl of Manitowoc, Wis., and Forest of Newberry, Louise Peake and Annabelle Richards of Detroit, Irene Carlson and Edna Vogel of Newberry. All were home this past November 25th when mother made her last journey. (A son, Roy, passed away in infancy.) The husband and four sisters also survive - Edna Hase of Munising, Kate Buckner, Bear Lake, Martha Smith, Onekama, and Lulu Krantz of Florida and two brothers, Charles Hilliard of Oregon and Walter Hilliard of Pontiac. Mrs. Barber had been a patient at the Taquamenon Hospital several weeks, a patient sufferer, and when death released the mortal body on November 25th only loving memories were left of the once= home, and they will live throughout eternity. The beautiful flowers spoke volumes of love for her whom they all knew and loved so well. Services were held at the Beauliew Funeral Home, and internment was at Forest Home Cemetery, Newberry.

Roses all radiance, mystery fragerance, fluttering, soaring, in secret restoring, on leap-wings that hold you, from sealed buds that fold you, hasten to blow! Open the springtime, green and aglow; bring paradise down to the sleeper below - Goethe' " -
Newberry Obituary
Mrs. Cora Barber
Newberry, Nov 26 -- Mrs. Cora Barber, 72, died at the Taquamenon General hospital at 12:15 A.M. Friday Nov 25, 1949. She had been a patient for the past month in the hospital.
She was born at Bear Lake, Michigan, May 2, 1877.
The survivors are her husband, James A Barber, Newberry: two sons, Earl Barber of Manitowoc Wis., and Forest Barber of Newberry; four daughters, Louise Peake of Detroit; Irene Carlson of Newberry; Annabell Richards of Detroit, and Edna Vogel of Newberry; 22 grrandchildren; four sisters, Edna Hayes, Munising; Kate Buckner,Bear Lake; Martha Smith, Onekama, Mich, and Lula Krantz of Florida; and 2 brothers, Walter Hilliard of Pontiac and Charles Hilliard of Oregon.
The funeral services will be held at the Bealieu funeral home at 2:00 P.M. Monday. The Rev. R.A. Garrison will officiate and burial will be in Forest Home Cementery.

When Cora was in the hospital she reached her hand out to Jim and said "It hasn't been easy has it Jim?" She then died.

1910 CENSUS DATA FOR LUCE COUNTY
"Surname" "GivenName" "Born" "Born" "Father" "Mother" "Imm"
"(Barber)" " Cora" 1877, "MI" "PA" "NY"

Listed in 1880 Michigan Census, Manistee County, Onekama Twp (ED# 162, Page 28)

Listed in 1900 Michigan Census, Alger County, Burt Twp (ED# 3, Page 6B)

Listed in 1910 Michigan Census, Luce County, Columbus Twp (ED# 155, Page 9B)

Listed in 1920 Michigan Census, Luce County, McMillan Twp (ED# 197, Page 3B)

Listed in 1930 Michigan Census, Luce County, McMillan Twp (ED# 48-4, Page 3B)

Notes:

1871 census, Carlow Twp. shows him of French Presbyterian descent - Jim Richards.

We have no record for this family but in Nov 1990, a gr-grandson, Mr. Gary Holmes of Grand Blanc, Michigan phoned, followed by a letter, which was passed to a Barber relative. This past winter I wrote Mr. Holmes at the address on the letter but had no reply. He did state that the Death Certificate was filed in Alcona Co., Michigan, no other info - Jim Richards

Jim was very strict with his family. He would tell his family that they would do whatever they were told. Would hold his son Jim & not let him talk - Forest Lee Barber (grandson)

A Mr. Koon was stealing Jim's moonshine. Jim would see him sneaking down and take a drink on a continuing basis. Jim filled the bottle with kerosene instead of moonshine. When Mr. Koon sneaked down & took a big drink, he threw the bottle down & never stole any of Jim's moonshine again - Anabell Barber Richards

All the family was down to help Jim & Cora put in a new foundation for the house. Instead of digging, the men were down in in the cellar drinking & were getting quite drunk. Myoma, Forest Barber's wife, told some of the kids to go down and get one of the bottles. She pissed in the bottle and sent it back down with the kids. Orval Richards, the husband of Annabell Barber, grabbed that particular bottle, took a drink, spit it out and commented that "it tasted like warm piss" - James Robert Peake

Listed in 1880 Michigan Census, Alcona County, Alcona Twp (ED#1, Page 26)

Listed in 1900 Michigan Census, Alcona County, Haynes Twp (ED#7, Sheet 6A)

Listed in 1910 Michigan Census, Alcona County, Haynes Twp (ED#7, Sheet 2A)

Lived in Michigan at time of father's death (3 Nov 1900) - Joe Chester

James married Mary Ann Neil on 29 Oct 1860 in Auld Kirk, Pakenham Twp., Renfrew County, Ontario. Mary (daughter of Nicholas Duncan Neil and Anne Campbell) was born on 08 Nov 1842 in Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 26 May 1932 in Harrisville, Haynes Twp, Alcona County, Michigan; was buried in Springport Cemetery, Harrisville, Alcona County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Mamie
• Name: Marion
• Resided: 05 Nov 1895, Alcona County, Michigan

Notes:

Listed in 1851 Canadian Census, Ontario, Renfrew, Mcnab Twp
1851 census @ca.on.317 page 001 line 20 20 NEIL, Nicholas m 34 Ire CofE farmer & cooper married 21 NEIL, {?} Mrs N. f 28 Scotland CofE married 22 NEIL, Mary Ann f 9 Canada CofE 23 NEIL, Duncan m 7 Canada CofE 24 NEIL, Catherine f 5 Canada CofE 25 NEIL, Margaret f 3 Canada CofE 26 NEIL, John m 1 Canada CofE
Birth verification per 1871 census, Carlow Twp - Jim Richards

1871 census shows her of Irish descent - Jim Richards

Listed in 1880 Michigan Census, Alcona County, Alcona Twp (ED#1, Page 26)

Listed in 1900 Michigan Census, Alcona County, Haynes Twp (ED#7, Sheet 6A)

Listed in 1910 Michigan Census, Alcona County, Haynes Twp (ED#7, Sheet 2A)

Listed in 1920 Michigan Census, Alcona County, Haynes Township (ED# 7, Sheet 12A)
- Living with daughter & son-in-law, Annie & John Nichol

After James died in 1913, she married her sister's widower, Duncan Gammell. She went to Red Oak, Iowa with him. When she was old, her daughter Annie Nichol, brought her back to Harrisville where she died. She was remembered as a tiny woman who was very agile for her age. Also she is remembered for her kindness to children - Jim Richards

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Married:
Marraige date also listed as 29 Nov 1869 in some source documents