Barr, Smith - 1886

Smith Barr, farmer, P. O. Two Taverns, was born on the farm where he and his family now reside, in Mountjoy Township, Adams County, Penn., and is descended from one of the old pioneer families of this county.

James Barr, Sr., the great-grandfather, a native of Ireland (but of Scotch descent) came to America before the Revolutionary war, and settled on the farm where our subject resides, marrying a Miss Watson.  James, his son, who was but a boy when they settled here, in the course of time was united in marriage with Miss Leckey, and they became the parents of three sons and four daughters:  George, Mary, James, Sarah, Nancy, Margaret and Alexander.  Of these, James was also born on the old homestead; he married Miss Margaret, daughter of Joseph Hunter, who bore him seven children:  James W., Jane A., Isabella, Smith (our subject), Sarah M., Albert L., and Agnes S.  James Barr, the father of these children died in 1852, aged sixty-seven; and his widow departed this life in 1870, aged seventy-nine years.

Smith Barr was educated near home, and is now one of the successful farmers of Adams County, owning the old homestead, with good substantial buildings thereon.  He was united in marriage, June 2, 1859, with Miss Harriet Horner, daughter of Eli Horner, of Cumberland Township, this county.  To this union have been born two children:  Mervin G. and Margaret J.  The family are members of the Presbyterian Church, at Piney Creek, of which Mr. Barr has been elder nearly twenty years.

Our subject enlisted his services in defense of his country during the late civil war, serving in Company G, One Hundred and First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.  Politically he has ever been identified with the Republican party, and has served his township as justice of the peace for the last eight years with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents.  He and his family are loved and respected by all who know them.

~ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886, Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 482 & 483.

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