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Subject: [BARRINGER] BARRINGER thru New Orleans to Louisville, KY.
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:26:47 EDT


Hi Ron,

I copied the list, something I don't normally do, but I wanted to make sure
that I contacted you. Since most people that subscribe to this list seem to
believe that all BARRINGER folks were in North Carolina after coming to
America, it was a great pleasure to find someone who suspected otherwise.

First and foremost, let me stress that the spelling of the name has been
both BARRINGER and BARINGER for, not only the same person, but siblings,
etc.. Never make the mistake that they are two separate families as this is
not true. This has carried down to my own Mother, Irene Fay BARINGER.
Although she, and her Father, and Grandfather, spelled it with only one R,
obituaries, Census listings,
etc., continually spelled it both ways.

While we're on the subject of spellings, I recently talked to a real, honest
to goodness, living German who lives in Baden, Germany. The correct spelling
of the town in Germany is Oelbronn, Wuerttemberg. Since this came from a
German who speaks German, I'm certainly going to take his word. He also
assured me that the name BARRINGER is still used in that area. I've yet to
contact any of those folks, however.

Johann Jakob BARRINGER (my original immigrant, and 4th great Grandfather)
born
1783 in Germany, died 1866 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY., and his
wife, Catherinah GOBEL BARRINGER, born 1784 in Germany, died 1862 in
Louisville, KY., along with at least one child, Daniel BARRINGER (my 3rd
great Grandfather) were the ones who came through New Orleans, LA., to
Louisville, KY.. This was in about 1817, but the date of their arrival in
Louisville, I'm not sure of. Certainly within a year. The following
information was taken from a book - 'A History of Nodaway County, Missouri' .

The following is taken from one of the books entitled "History of Nodaway
County, Missouri". Possibly this from the book written in 1882. I need
to get a copy of this book to make sure.

DANIEL BARINGER
Farmer, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, April 9, 1809, and in 1816 went
to Holland, and from there embarked for Philadelphia U.S.A.. He was on
the ocean for ninety-one days; was shipwrecked twice, losing everything,
and out of four hundred and forty-four persons who took passage on the
same vessel only two hundred arrived at New Orleans. Mr. B. then came to
Louisville, Kentucky in 1818. In 1829, he moved to Jackson County,
Indiana, where he bought 240 acres of land for $400 and commenced work
building a double log house and improving a farm. There he lived for
thirty years. He married Miss Rebecca LOVIER, a native of Maryland, in
1829. They had twelve children, ten of whom are living: Daniel, John J.,
Nimrod, William, Alpheus, Catherine, Caroline, Elizabeth, Martha Jane,
and Josephene. James died while in the Army and Laura (Lauraetta)
was killed by the falling of a tree in Indiana. In 1869, Mr. B. came to
Nodaway County, Missouri, and bought a large farm, a greater part of
which has been improved. He has a fine residence and orchard, and
the farm is divided with hedge fences into twenty and forty acre lots.His
landed interest embraces 240 acres in section 36. Nimrod BARINGER,
his son, married Miss Rebecca CONNS, of Iowa, in July 1881. He was one
of the company who went to the Black Hills and was burned out by the
government. Upon returning to Iowa he was employed on a railroad until
he came home to work the farm. Mr. BARINGER held many offices of
trust and responsibility while in Indiana. He is Mason and a member of
the M. E. Church.

Since most books written in the late 1800's tended to be a little flowery
and embellished by the persons writing them, you need to read a little
more into the above story than what was said. Daniel must have come
to America in the company of his parents, Johan Jakob BARRINGER and
Catherina GOBEL BARRINGER, as they both died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Kentucky and are buried in Cave Hill Cemetery there. Daniel
married Rebecca Ann LOVIER in Louisville, Kentucky. The above book
passage would lead you to believe that they married in Indiana, but this
is untrue. In addition, Nimrod's name was spelled Minrod in the book.
I corrected this in my typing of the book passage in the interest of
clarity. I also seriously doubt that any ship of that time could carry
444 passengers. I have yet to find the ship's passenger list that
carried this family into New Orleans.

I apologize to the List for the length of this message. I have a great deal
of further information on this family, and some insight on why they moved to
Nodaway County, MO.. Anyone interested in BARINGER/BARRINGER folks, outside
of North Carolina, please contact me. If you have genealogy software that
can handle the importation of a gedcom file, I would be happy to attach one.
I have photographs of not only some of the BARINGER folks (my Great
Grandparents and later), but also photos of grave markers of those who stayed
in Jackson County, Indiana. By the way, if you look at a map, Jackson
County, IN., is directly north of Louisville about 40 miles. I know of none
of this family that migrated directly to Iowa, etc., without first passing
through southern Indiana.

Gene Whitley

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