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Personal data Sophia Ora Barker 


Household of Sophia Ora Barker

She is married to Luther Clingman Davis.

L C Davis and Sophia Ora Barker were married at home on the 24th day of Dec, 1902 in the presence of A H Barker and W S Johnson. Rev R L Byrd officiated at the marriage in teh Barker home.

They got married on December 24, 1902 at Family Home, Bladen County, NC, she was 18 years old.Sources 2, 3, 4, 5


Child(ren):

  1. Ewin Barker Davis  1921-2007 


Notes about Sophia Ora Barker

After Luther's death, Sophia and her children lived with her father in St. Pauls for a while and with son Gordon and his wife Annie Belle for about a year. She bought 65 acres for $500 from Mrs. Annie Lewis Singletary (son Luther's future mother-in-law) in the Hickory Grove Community. Around 1931, with the help of friends and family, they built a white frame house with German siding and a front porch. They would have paid their help if they had wanted it, but only one person did. Mr. Seth Lewis was paid $20 to construct the chimney. Sophia would go out and work in the fields with her older children and was also known to be a 'crack shot' who never missed with her gun.

Around 1937, Sophia married Mr. Seth Lewis. They moved to his small home nearby but left her children in the home they had built about 6 years earlier.

Around 1938, daughter Margaret began the tradition of the Birthday Dinner in her mother's honor. Originally held at the homes of her children, it eventually became the Davis Family Reunion and was held at the Hickory Grove community building.

After several strokes, Sophia died of heart failure.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Sophia Ora Barker

Sophia Ora Barker
1884-1972

1902

Luther Clingman Davis
1870-1930

Ewin Barker Davis
1921-2007

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Sources

  1. Immediate Family History, Ewin Davis
  2. Davis Family Bible
  3. L C Davis Family Bible
  4. Ancestry World Tree
  5. Barker Family Bible

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Historical events

Birthday June 16, 1884

  • The temperature on June 16, 1884 was about 13.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
    • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
    • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
    • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
    • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
    • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

Day of marriage December 24, 1902

  • The temperature on December 24, 1902 was between -0.9 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
    • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
    • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
    • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
    • August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
    • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.

Day of death May 29, 1972

  • The temperature on May 29, 1972 was between 10.0 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
    • March 3 » Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
    • March 22 » The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
    • May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
    • May 30 » The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
    • September 15 » A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
    • November 30 » Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.


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