HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. By William H. 
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern Historical 
Press, Easley, SC, 1979.

THOMAS F. BARKER farmer, P. O. Athens, is a grandson of one of the early 
pioneers of Kentucky, William Barker by name, who located near the 
present Athens; and for a hundred years his descendants have resided in 
the locality, and are still possessors of the soil there.  Joseph Barker, 
a son of William, married Miss Nancy Jones, said to have been related to 
Daniel Boone.  Of this union was born, in 1827, near Athens Thomas F., 
who is his youth received the best education the schools of the 
neighborhood afforded, while the months of farm labor found him at work 
in the fields.  A little later, he learned the trade of wagonmaking; and, 
being naturally fond of mathematics, acquired a through knowledge of 
surveying.  In 1854, he married Jane McDonald, whose parents, Rice and 
Mary (Moxley) McDonald, were early pioneers of Fayette County, the father 
tracing his lineage back to the hardy race reared among the highlands of 
Scotland, and known as Clan MacDonald.  Mr. Barker's farm contains 140 
acres of very fine land; and on its southwest corner is a recess, the 
rock canopy of which gives evidence of the action of smoke and fire years 
ago; and here, it is thought, Daniel Boone and his companions camped 
during one of their early expeditions into Kentucky.  Mr. Barker served 
in the capacity of Magistrate in Athens Precinct for four years.  He has 
seven children-William T., Nancy J., Mary E., Robert R., Hugh F., Edwin E. 
and James  M.; one, Mary A., having died.  Parents and family are, and 
all their ancestors in Fayette County were members of the Missionary 
Baptist Church.

Jones McDonald MacDonald Moxley Boone
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