Charlie Gordon Barker

16 May 1903–25 July 1986 (Age 83)
Weatherford, Parker, Texas, United States

The Life Summary of Charlie Gordon

When Charlie Gordon Barker was born on 16 May 1903, in Weatherford, Parker, Texas, United States, his father, Marion Barker, was 36 and his mother, Josephine Ward, was 28. He died on 25 July 1986, in Sierra Vista, Cochise, Arizona, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Benson Cemetery, Benson, Cochise, Arizona, United States.

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Charlie Gordon Barker
1903–1986
Carrie Charlcie Rodgers
1913–1979

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World Events (8)

1904
Age 1
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Age 2
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
1927
Age 24
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

(1997: 32221;2007: 65620; 2010: 87162)English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Berger

Sources (2)

  • Charlie Barker in household of Mrs J A Barker, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Charlie Gordon Barker, "Find A Grave Index"

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