Clara Barbee

Brief Life History of Clara

When Clara Barbee was born on 24 October 1846, in Georgetown, Scott, Kentucky, United States, her father, George L. Barbee, was 23 and her mother, Eleanor Francis Poindexter, was 19. She married Benjamin F. Pettit on 26 May 1868, in Scott, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Clark, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Scott, Kentucky, United States in 1860. She died on 12 January 1880, in Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin F. Pettit
1838–1890
Clara Barbee
1846–1880
Marriage: 26 May 1868
Katherine Pettit
1870–1936
Martha Ellen Pettit
1871–1900
George Nathaniel Pettit
1872–1935
Lillian Pettitt
1875–1958
Minnie Barbee Pettit
1877–1970
Benjamine Pettit
1880–

Sources (9)

  • Clara Barbee in household of George L Barbee, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Clara N Barber, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Clara M Barbee Pettit, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1850 · 8th Most Populated State

According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Barby .

English (of French Huguenot origin): Anglicized form of French Barbé (see Barbe ).

Americanized form of French Barbier and possibly also of Barbé (compare 2 above).

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

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