Barber Photos
L-R: Florida (Barber) Palmer David Knapp, Charles F. Barber, Mary Leah (Barber) Rowe, & id'd only as one of the
Barber girls. Photo made about 1882.
Victoria Eugenie (Thompson) Barber & son Charles F. Barber.
Photo made shortly after Mother Vic was widowed in 1868.
She later married Samuel Neil Williams, Jr.
Victoria Eugenie Regina (Thompson) Barber Williams
known as Mother Vic to her descendents and as Victorie (Vic tor' ie) to
her parents and siblings and as Auntie to her neices and nephews. She was widowed in 1868 while living in Baldwin where her
husband had been stationed as chief cattle driver for his father. She was left with two small children. She homesteaded a farm
north of Macclenny on the old Barber plantation property and lived there until her married son Charley moved into Darbyville
(Macclenny) in 1882. Photo made just before her death in 1919 due to the Spanish flu.
Charles Farmer & Mary Elizabeth "Molly" (Rowe) Barber on their wedding day,
1 April, 1880
Some of the Barber women on the occasion of Granddaddy Barber's birthday, 6 June, 1965.
L-R: Elene (Thrift) Barber, wife of Cary; Evelyn (Thrift) Barber, wife of Joe; Dorothy (Hawes) Barber, wife of
George F.; Minnie (Bullard) Durrance Whiddon Barber, wife of Charles M.; Dorothy (Barber) Spence, wife of Eldon; Melissa
(Barber) Stuart Adams, wife of Steve; Sharon (Barber) Ziegler Southerby, wife of Glen; and Ethel (Drawdy) Reddish,
wife of Bryant.
Charles Monroe "Rowe" Barber 1971
Sometimes known to his cronies and brother Ed as "Dick." He was a state lobbyist, cattleman,
county commissioner, and a strong influence in state politics for many years. As a youth he was a "rounder" keeping his father
busy keeping him out of paying the penalties for his peccadillos. He aged into one of most humble gracious people ever to live on
this earth. He had no enemies, never showed partiality, had a gentle ironic wit, and could find something genuinely good in
anybody. He refused to allow his family to talk ill of others in his presence. He was known as a peacemaker. He aided others to
his own hurt. Many got their second starts by walking up to his gate penniless and asking for a little handout just to get by and
start again. He refused no one. This photo was made shortly before his death in 1971
Pearle (Chesser) Barber & Mike Spence
Pearle & nephew Mike on a cross country trip in 1959; Mike is the son of Eldon and Dorothy (Barber) Spence.
L-R: Bryant Reddish, Charles M. Barber, Mike "Choppo" Spence, and W. M. "Dub" Barber
Birthday dinner for Dub and his neice Mildred Barber Johnson
Tracey (Barber) Archambault, wife of Sheldon; Todd Davis Barber, husband of Jennifer Betterman
Grant Barber
Known affectionately among the family as "The Right Reverend Doctor Tater Head Barber."
L-R: Tom Wolfe, Cheryl (Barber) Shannon, Melissa (Barber) Stuart Adams, & Gary Barber.
Todd Davis and Jennifer (Betterman) Barber
Pearl Inez Garrett Barber
Pearl Inez (Garrett) Barber, dau of George W. and Elizabeth (Simmons) Garrett and wife of Charles M. Barber. Photo
snapped by Claude Mobley on the back porch of Grandpa Snide and Grandma Mag Chesser's home on the Glen Nursery. The
occasion was the funeral day of Grandpa Chesser.
Grandmother Barber, was civic minded and a staunch pillar of the Macclenny
Baptist Church. She was one of the founders of the Macclenny Woman's Club. It was originally organized as a group of mothers
who worked to provide milk for the less fortunate children in the community. An American holly she planted in the yard of the
Woman's Club is still growing there in 2001. Another she planted in the Baptist Church yard had to be cut in 1955 because it was
where the new (now the old) building would be erected.She landscaped much of Macclenny, using her own funds and horticultural
material donated by Fraser's Southern States Nursery. She had planned a park and swimming pool on the grounds of her home
south of Macclenny for the use of the town's children, but she died before it could be undertaken. She was witty, long suffering,
always laughing even when ill and in pain, and an inspiration to the family and community.
L-R: Charles Monroe Barber, Joe Bryant Barber, Charles Edward Barber, Dorothy Barber Spence, Cary Alfred Barber,
William Monroe Barber, George Francis Barber.
Photo made 1953 on the C. M. Barber place.
Gene Barber 1961 Baker County Centennial Celebration
L-R: Mildred (Barber) Johnson, Stacy Rowe Barber, Charles Monroe Barber, William Eugene "Gene" Barber, Joe Bryant
Barber.
Photo made 1936 in the front yard of the C. M. Barber home.
Joe Barber 1935
The ladder device at the left of the picture was used to haul water up to a huge wooden vat on the
roof. The water was warmed by the sun and used in a shower room below. A very handy ingenious inexpensive arrangement, but
not at all approved of by the hired help who had to haul the water in buckets in many a trip to and from a spring at the foot of the hill
and then up the ladder.
Joe & Mildred Barber 1932
Gary Bryant Barber & Cary Grant Barber
Charles M. Barber with g-grandsons Keith Ziegler and Terry Barber
L-R: Charles M. (Daddy Rowe) Barber, Charles Edward Barber (rear), Stacy Rowe Barber, Joe Bryant Barber, William
Monroe "Dub" Barber, Mike Pickering (friend of the family), Mike's friend (unidentified).
Photo was made by Floy (Estes) Barber in 1945.
Painting "The Barber Boys at the Green Shanty"
Taken from a snapshot made in 1945 at an old cow camp house on the edge of
Pinhook Swamp in an area called Sokum. The Green shanty was named for a Mr. Green who had lived on the site many years
prior. there were no screens on the windows and only one window had a wooden shutter (which, if closed, did little good with all the
others and the doors wide open and unshuttered). Cooking was done on a fire outside. The cowpens were across the white sand
rut road. Bears came frighteningly close. Nearby in the mid 1930's Dub Barber and Earn Barton found a bear feeding on a freshly
killed cow. The boys didn't have a firearm with them, so they drove the bear up a pine tree with their cow whips. They built a fire
near the base of the tree and Dub sat near the base of the tree using his cow whip to drive the bear back up the tree whenever the
rather angry animal tried to shinny down and kept feeding litered knots to the fire all night. Earn rode back to the camp to discover
there was no ammo for the firearms. He then drove the long unpaved distance to Macclenny and back for bullets. Dub said that
the bear growled all night and often tried to come down, the pine bark flying.
Earn arrived with the ammo about daybreak. They shot the bear. Dub wore one of the bear's claws on his watch chain for years.
For the painting, I took the liberty of removing Mike and his friend and replacing them with Cary Alfred Barber and George Francis Barber. I also included myself as a
silhouette in the rear door in the painting. (Gene Barber)
Baker County Centennial Celebration 1961
back row L-R: George Francis Barber, Earnest Owens, Joe Bryant Barber
front row L-R: Lonnie Johns, Gene Barber, Vernon Walker, Walter Taylor
1961 - Baker County Centennial Celebration
L-R: Betty (Combs) Thrift, Melissa (Barber) Stuart Adams, Sunada
Thrift
Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Rowe Barber
Cheryl Barber & Steve Godwin 1965
daughter of Cary Barber & Elene Thrift Barber
As Of Sept 28, 2007
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