James Archie Barber b. 20 Sep 1872 White Lake, Mcnab Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada d. 15 Apr 1953 Newberry, Luce County, Michigan

1872 - 1953 (80 years)

Name	James Archie Barber [1]
Born	20 Sep 1872	White Lake, Mcnab Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada [1]
Gender	Male
Buried	Apr 1953	Dollarville, Luce County, Michigan [1]
Died	15 Apr 1953	Newberry, Luce County, Michigan [1]
Person ID	I10722	Jerry Milo Johnson
Last Modified	29 Mar 2015

Father	James Barber, b. 30 Mar 1837, McNab Twp, Renfrew County, Lanark, Ontario, Canada , d. 29 May 1913, Haynes Township, Alcona County, Michigan (Age 76 years)
Relationship	Natural
Mother	Mary Ann Neil, b. 08 Nov 1842, Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada , d. 26 May 1932, Harrisville, Haynes Twp, Alcona County, Michigan (Age 89 years)
Relationship	Natural
Married	29 Oct 1860	Auld Kirk, Pakenham Twp., Renfrew County, Ontario [1, 2]
Notes	Married: Marraige date also listed as 29 Nov 1869 in some source documents
Family ID	F3708	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Cora Mae Hilliard, b. 02 May 1877, Bear Lake Township, Manistee County, Michigan , d. 25 Nov 1949, Tahquamenon Falls Hospital (Age 72 years)

Married 10 Jan 1897 Grand Marais, Alger County, Michigan [1]

Children

	1. Roy Barber, b. 1897, Grand Marais, Alger County, Michigan , d. 1898 (Age 1 years) [Natural]
	2. Edna Mae Barber, b. 20 Jan 1918, Dollarville, Luce County, Michigan , d. 30 Sep 1996, Newberry, Luce County, Michigan (Age 78 years) [Natural]
	3. Mary Louise Barber, b. 03 Jul 1906, Harrisville, Haynes Twp, Alcona County, Michigan , d. 13 Feb 1994, Fort Myers, Florida (Age 87 years) [Natural]
	4. Florence Irene Barber, b. 02 Jun 1910, Grand Marais, Alger County, Michigan , d. 07 Nov 1989, Luce County, Michigan (Age 79 years) [Natural]
	5. Annabell Barber, b. 26 Oct 1912, Dollarville, Luce County, Michigan [Natural]
	6. James Earl Barber, b. 02 May 1899, Grand Marais, Alger County, Michigan , d. May 1977, Mantiowac, Mantiowac County, Wisconsin (Age 78 years) [Natural]
	7. Forest Lee Barber, b. 30 Sep 1904, Harrisville, Haynes Twp, Alcona County, Michigan , d. 23 Jul 1991, Luce County, Michigan (Age 86 years) [Natural]

Family ID F3712 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 20 Sep 1872 - White Lake, Mcnab Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
	Married - 10 Jan 1897 - Grand Marais, Alger County, Michigan
	Buried - Apr 1953 - Dollarville, Luce County, Michigan
	Died - 15 Apr 1953 - Newberry, Luce County, Michigan

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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)

Sources
[S117] Chester Family Gedcom, Joe Chester.

[S56] Alcona County Review, 11/7/1895 Volume : 19 Number : 32 Page : 3 Column : 2 (Reliability: 3).