This parent/child relationship is built on circumstantial evidence.  Although the Greenbrier County marriage register identifies the marriage of Susannah Black and Abraham Barger taking place 24 August 1803 and officiated by John Pinnell, no marriage bond has been found that might identify a family relationship.  Abraham Barger is found in the same enumeration district very near the Abraham Black family in the Greenbrier Personal Property Tax (PPT) rolls from 1797 through 1800, including on the line next to Abraham Black in 1798.  Abraham Barger does not appear in the 1801 and 1802 PPT enumeration, but reappears in the same enumeration district in 1804 and 1805.  Several of Abraham Barger's siblings lived in the area including brother John who lived on Sinking Creek in 1804 and was enumerated on the same day as Abraham Black.

According to "The Barger Journal", edited by Alvan Lyell Barger, Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1939, Abraham Barger is identified as marrying Susannah Schwartz.  The Abraham Black family is the only Black family in Greenbrier at the time who was known to have been Schwartz "turned" Black.  Was she identified as Schwartz because she was part of this Black family and it was understood that the family was from Germany and the family name was Schwartz?  Or was she from another Black family in Greenbrier and she was supplied a surname of Schwartz by the editor or contributor because the assumption was that a German Barger would have most likely married a person also of German extraction?  This is a tenuous linkage that is presented to draw thoughts and comments.

After their last appearance in the Greenbrier PPT rolls, Abraham makes an appearance in the 1806 Kanawha County PPT roll as Abraham Bargar.  It is presumed that Abraham and Susannah then migrated to Breckinridge County, Kentucky where his parents and some siblings had settled, and more siblings were to follow.  According to "Perry County: A History" by Thomas James De La Hunt, W. K. Stewart Co., 1916, Abraham Barger (and Susannah) had moved across the Ohio to Perry County, Indiana by 1810, being among some of the early settlers.  There may have been another Abraham Barger family in Perry County around the same time as this Barger family, but it is fairly certain that this family was there at this time.  Several of the children have census entries identifying their birth location as Indiana.  Abraham, Jr., who lived to be 5 days short of 101 years old, had a Webster County, Iowa obituary statement giving his birth location as Perry County, Indiana in 1816.

They settled in Perry County for nearly 20 years and 8 of their 16 children were born there.  After this they moved to the Schuyler and Hancock County, Illinois area about 1826-1827.  Circa 1836-1837 some of the children migrated to Jefferson County, followed by Abraham circa 1840.  Abraham appears in the 1840 Jefferson County, Iowa census page 142, but Susannah is not included in the enumeration.  Abraham is accompanied by several of his male offspring, but only one young female.  It is possible Abraham had recently moved to Jefferson County and Susannah had not yet joined him.

More properly stated this was an unorganized area in the Iowa Territory with Jefferson not becoming an official county until 1839 and Iowa not becoming a state until 1846.  According to "History of Jefferson County, Iowa" by Charles J. Fulton, Vol. 1., The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1914, "The first settlers came to an open country where each as he arrived selected a place that pleased his fancy.  If his tract adjoined the claim of another, it conformed to that.  Beyond this there was no regularity of bounds and no certainty of acreage.  There could be none until the lands were surveyed.  Round Prairie Township - Survey commenced August 19, 1837, completed August 31, 1837 ... William Barger, a settler on SW qr., Section 7 ..."  Abraham died in 1845, before seeing Iowa become a state, and is buried in the Buchanan Township cemetery in Jefferson County.

Susannah continued to live in Jefferson County with her children.  In the 1850 Lockridge Township, Jefferson County, Iowa census, page 30B, Susana Barger, age 65, and several of her unmarried children are shown living with Abraham, Jr. in residence 120/family 120.  Residence 119/family 119 is the young James Barger family and residence 118/family 118 is the Abraham and Margaret Barger Ingle (Ingalls) family.  One comment on notation - Iowa was a new state in 1850 and state abbreviations had not yet been standardized as we now know them.  These census entries show a state code of "Io" for Iowa and "Ia" for Indiana.  About 1854 she moved to Webster County, Iowa with some of her children.  She died there in 1865 and is buried in Border Plains Cemetery in Washington Township, where the cemetery index identifies her as Susan Black Barger.

The children of Abraham Barger and Susannah Black are:

1. Elizabeth Barger, b. 20 July 1804, Greenbrier County, (West) Virginia; d. 29 November 1843, Jefferson County, Iowa
2. Margaret Barger, b. 13 February 1806, probably Kanawha County, (West) Virginia; d. 3 August 1866, Webster County, Iowa
3. Samuel Barger, b. 30 September 1807, probably Breckinridge County, Kentucky; d. 1866, Webster County, Iowa
4. Sarah Barger, b. 31 October 1809, probably Breckinridge County, Kentucky; d. 1871, Jefferson County, Iowa
5. William Harrison Barger, b. 3 January 1812, Perry County, Indiana; d. 23 July 1858, Walnut Creek, Fremont County, Iowa
6. Mary Barger, b. 7 February 1814, Perry County, Indiana; d. between 1860 and 1870, Webster County, Iowa
7. Abraham Barger, b. 18 February 1816, Perry County, Indiana; d. 13 February 1917, Webster County, Iowa
8. Zerildah Barger, b. 28 April 1819, Perry County, Indiana; d. (unknown)
9. Elias Barger, b. 3 June 1820, Perry County, Indiana; d. 1879, Jefferson County, Iowa
10. John Barger, b. 12 October 1822, Perry County, Indiana; d. (unknown)
11. James W. Barger, b. 12 January 1824, Perry County, Indiana; d. 9 October 1855, Webster County, Iowa
12. Thomas R. Barger, b. 15 June 1826, Perry County, Indiana; d. (unknown)
13. Susan I. Barger, b. 10 May 1827, Schuyler County, Illinois; d. 23 November 1856, Webster County, Iowa
14. Henry Francis Barger, b. 4 February 1832, Hancock County, Illinois; d. 21 November 1886, Webster County, Iowa
15. America Barger, b. Abt. 1836, Illinois; d. Unknown
16. Joel Barger, b. Abt. 1838, Illinois; d. Unknown