James Barr was born to John E. Barr and Bettie Maupin Sims-Barr September 1892 in Shackelford, Missouri, the second-oldest of eleven children. It was the year Thomas Edison would receive a patent for a two-way telegraph.

The month after James Barr was born, "The Dalton Gang", attempting to rob two banks in nearby Coffeyville, Kansas, was shot by the townspeople. Only Emmett Dalton, with 23 wounds, survives, to spend 14 years in prison.

James Barr married Minnie Johanna Schieberl and they had twelve children of their own. She is pictured above at her 1919 high school graduation at Notre Dame de Sion. Minnie was also was born into a large family. She had one brother Sylvester Schieberl who married Hazel Steinmetz, and two sisters Angeline and Vergie. Vergie married Henry Ludwig, and the two would have a son Carl Ludwig.

CHILDREN:

Leon James Barr

Francis Frank "Bud" Barr

Eleanor Barr m. "Mr." Teale. son David Teale.

John "Bernard" Barr m. "Joyce"

Donald Anthony Barr m. "Flossie"

Henry "Manning" Barr

Rosemary Theresa Barr b. 8/28/1931.

Virginia Barr

Bernadette Barr d. six months

Mary "Angela" Barr b. 3/24/1937. m. "Mr." Petri. daughter Heather T. Brown

Margaret "Annetta" Barr

Phyllis Barr m. "Mr." Kilgore.

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1941 picnic at Francis "Bud" Barr's house

Pictured: Vergie Schieberl-Ludwig, mother of Minnie Schieberl-Barr, Francis Barr, Angela Schieberl-Petri, Laura Schieberl-Thompson, Henry Barr, Minnie Schieberl-Barr.

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