My Uncle Tony recalled that his grandmother, Lucy Burr Wadhams, thought of her husband, Dr. Abram Barker, as a “Johnny-come-lately,” a man without the deep historical connection to America (and Goshen specifically) of her lineage. She was not wrong. The Wadhams had been in Connecticut for generations. Abram Barker had been born in Maine asContinue reading “The Barker Surname”
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Anthony Barker
Anthony Barker died April 3, 2022. I was able to visit him the week prior. He had been released from the hospital to the assisted living facility that he shared with his wife, Betty. He was on hospice with a prognostication of three more months. Although he was thinner and frailer than I had everContinue reading “Anthony Barker”
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