Bare and Allied Families -- Internet Sources

The Bare Family of Huntington County, Indiana.  A large collection of data about the Bares in my line, related directly and not so directly.  Dr. Gradeless has traced them back to Jacob (c. 1770-1825) Bare and wife Mary Wintrode (1775-1840's), both of whom died in Preble County, Ohio.  Who were Jacob's parents?  The 1790 census of Pennsylvania has a gazillion Jacob Bears, but I'm betting on at least a relation to a Jacob in York County who is listed near Isaac Bear (Isaac is the name of my great-great-grandfather) and also near a number of Winterode households. Preble County Ohio Marriage Records  Transcription of Preble County Ohio Marriage records from 1808-1859; contains quite a few Bares  (also spelled Bair, Baer, Bear, etc.)  Pioneer Migrations Routes Through Ohio .  Jacob Bare was buried in a Dunkard cemetery in Twin Township, Preble County, Ohio.  His son Henry (1803-1885) was a German Baptist Brethren minister, and another son John (1807-1891) donated land to the first Church of the Brethren church in West Alexandria, Ohio.  (That's why my dad's generation thought their ancestors were "Amish or something"!)  Merle Rummel is a Brethren minister and historian who has studied, synthesized, and interpreted evidence of the daily lives of the Dunkard family communities and the routes they took as they moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, and Indiana.  The CoB network website offers his insights as well as those of many others driven to document the history of their faith.

Thrift Family.  Shortly before my father died at the age of 85, I asked him if he knew his great-grandmother's maiden name.  It was on the edge of his tongue for a while, but finally, "Thrift".  I thought at the time that it was remarkable that he remembered, especially since I never heard him talk of her before.  It was thrilling to confirm with newfound internet cousins that his memory was exactly right.  Jacob's son Isaac Bare (1818-1881) married Lydia Marthena Thrift (1839-1917) in 1859, in the year following the death of his first wife Elizabeth Robertson (c.1818-1858).  Lydia was born in Guilford County, NC, reportedly to Green Thrift and Dorcas Gardner, though her death record listed William Thrift as her father.  A couple of interesting speculations surround Lydia's parents. Some contend that the Thrift family can be traced back to Jamestown settler, Richard Frith.  Just as illustriously, Dorcas Gardner's mother, Dinah Folger, has been calculated to be first cousin 3 times removed to Benjamin Franklin.  I wonder how many of our ancestors knew that!

Indiana Marriages Through 1850.  The first son of the twelve children born to Isaac and Lydia Thrift  Bare was Ira S. Bare (1860-1940).  In 1885 "Irie" married Maude Billings (1868-1936).  Maude's father George W. Billings (1823-1879) can be found in this marriage index, although his bride, Isabella Enyeart, was not Maude's mother.  It took a while for me to discover that Maude, like Ira, was the firstborn child of a second wife.  Thanks to the diggings of relatives there is quite a bit of detail on the Billings line since G.W.  His first marriage resulted in two daughters, and after Isabella died he married Maude's mother, Margaret Jonas McVicker (1832-1903; it was also her second marriage.  Margaret figures prominently in the reported lifelong hard working virtues of her son Samuel McVicker.)  Margaret's parents are known to be John and Matilda Jonas.  John is said to have died at the age of 23, leaving Matilda with two children to raise.  Twelve years later, when Margaret was 15, Matilda married John Williams, and that marriage is listed in the Indiana database also, though her first name was changed to "Martha" for the record.

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