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  2. David Lee Ross Barber: Birth: 25 DEC 1929 in Home in Ervin Twp, Howard Co, IN. Death: 25 DEC 1929 in Home in Ervin Twp, Howard Co, IN

  3. Phyllis Jean Barber: Birth: BET 1930 AND 1933 in Unknown. Death: 23 JUL 1933 in Muncie, Delaware Co, IN


Notes
a. Note:   'Descendants of Randolph and Mary (Foster) Barber':
 David Ross, known as Ross, was also nicknamed "Jinks" in grade school, which name stuck with him throughout life. He said it originated when he was squirming around in his school seat and the teacher said, "Can't you sit still, Captain Jinks?"
 Ross was a very friendly, jovial, warm-hearted fellow who loved to joke and converse with anyone, never knowing a stranger. He laughed a lot with a chuckle accompanied by a jiggling of his protruding tummy. He had broad shoulders, a large frame carrying around 240 pounds and was five feet eleven inches tall. His hair turned white shortly after age 40 and the top of his head was bald at an early age. He had clear blue eyes. His hearing was impaired, starting in his 40's and steadily deteriorated--however, he chose not to wear a hearing aid. He was a very hard worker physically. He often mowed grass and weeds by hand with a mowing scythe after a full hard day of work in the fields.
 While he was a superintendent of a road building crew for several years before his marriage, he lived in his "cook shack" as he called it, near the job. He built many roads in Carroll, Cass and Howard Counties, blazing the trail through the woods, etc. He was proud to hear reports from surveyors, years later, when they were getting ready to pave his roads, that they were laid out perfectly and could not improve on them. They were using surveying equipment and Ross had laid them out by using his eye. This talent carried over to his gardening in years to follow. He was very compulsive in having straight rows, pushing his little hand plow and using only his sight to make them straight. He loved gardening and was especially proud of growing nice potatoes.
  CENSUS
 1930 Howard County, Indiana: Ross Barber 47 Gladys Barber 30 Norma Barber 4


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