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Ira W. Barker was born probably born in Massachusetts, ca. 1805. His His wife, Nancy, was born ca. 1810 in Tennessee. They were married and living in Marion County, Alabama, by 1825, when their first child was born. They had eleven children, 1825-1849, all born in in Marion County. He purchased land in Itawamba County, Mississippi, in 1850, and probably died there ca. 1852. Nancy Barker was living with a son in Sanford (Lamar) County, Alabama, in 1870. She probably died there before 1880. Descendants listed lived in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, throughout the United States and elsewhere.

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