Warren Barr

    Warren Barr, of Pigeon Township, Warrick County, Indiana, is a native of Summer County, Tennessee, born October 2, 1821, the only living son in a family of eight children born to Eli and Nelly (Oglesby) Barr, both natives of Virginia. They reared their family and spent most of their lives in Tennessee. The father died in Kentucky and the mother came to Indiana to live with her sons, where she afterward died.

    Warren was raised by his parents and continued at home until nineteen years of age. After some years spent in Tennessee he came to Warrick County, Indiana, and located where he now resides. December 2, 1847, he was married to Miss Eliza Jane Aust, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Williams) Aust, residents and natives of Tennessee and of English and German descent.

    Mr. and Mrs. Barr are the parents of fourteen children, named Elisha (deceased), Ellen, Rebecca, Joseph (deceased), George, Jesse (deceased), Thomas, John, Henry, William, Nancy (deceased), Caroline, Madaline and Louis (deceased). Mrs. Barr was born June 15, 1831.

    Mr. Barr makes farming and stock-raising his occupation and owns 320 acres of good land besides having given 200 acres to his children. He commenced in Warrick County with but little and he and wife by diligence and economy have acquired a good home and pleasant surroundings. In politics he is one of the old Jacksonian Democrats and is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.