Individual Details
Minna Rosalie Charlotta "Minnie" DeWitt
(31 Jan 1886 - 24 Apr 1970)
Family papers dated June 8th, 1915 - Minnie Charlotte DeWitt, born January 31, 1886, at Louisville. Daughter of Lafayette and Mary Augusta DeWitt, married Charles L. Barker, October 23, 1907, at Louisville, Ky., and had two children - Charles L. Barker, Jr., born in 1908; died same year; and, Marcella Barker, born in October, 1909. Family reside at 1403 East Breckinridge, Louisville, Ky.
"Was invited to Pat & Bills for Thanksgiving, but I always go to Hollenkamps. .... Lafe called on Thanksgiving & talked to Augusta, Mary & Laura, also & then called Nancy at Bill's house, ..." Minnie in letter to Olive Dec 6th 1963.
"Was invited to Pat & Bills for Thanksgiving, but I always go to Hollenkamps. .... Lafe called on Thanksgiving & talked to Augusta, Mary & Laura, also & then called Nancy at Bill's house, ..." Minnie in letter to Olive Dec 6th 1963.
Events
| Birth | 31 Jan 1886 | Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States |  |  | |
| Marriage | 23 Oct 1907 | St. Martin's Church, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States - Charles Louis Barker | | | |
| Census (family) | 16 Apr 1910 | Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States - Charles Louis Barker | | | |
| Census (family) | 6 Jan 1920 | Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States - Charles Louis Barker | | | |
| Census (family) | 1940 | Ward 1, Magisterial District 1, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States - Charles Louis Barker | | ||
| Census | 1950 | 1405 Breckenridge, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States | | ||
| Death | 24 Apr 1970 | Jefferson, Kentucky, United States | | |
Families
| Spouse | Charles Louis Barker (1881 - 1949) |
| Child | Charles L. Barker Jr (1908 - 1908) |
| Child | Marcella Dewitt Barker (1909 - 1919) |
| Father | Lafayette DeWitt (1857 - 1948) |
| Mother | Mary Augusta Hollenkamp (1859 - 1905) |
| Sibling | John Henry DeWitt (1880 - 1939) |
| Sibling | Clarence Douglas DeWitt (1882 - 1937) |
| Sibling | Olive May Augusta DeWitt (1884 - 1985) |
| Sibling | Albert Arthur DeWitt (1886 - 1886) |
| Sibling | Grace Lillian DeWitt (1886 - 1886) |
| Sibling | Mary Jane "Jeanette" DeWitt (1888 - 1888) |
| Sibling | Adeline DeWitt (1892 - 1893) |
| Sibling | Lafayette Gilbert DeWitt Jr. (1893 - 1974) |
| Sibling | Nellie Adeline DeWitt (1895 - 1961) |
Notes
Birth
Sunday 3:30 p.m.424 East Market Street, Louisville, Ky
Marriage
Wedding announcement among family papers -Mr. Lafayette DeWitt
announces the marriage of his daughter
Minna Charlotte
to
Mr. Charles Lewis Barker
October the Twenty-Third
One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven
At Home
Eleven Hundred East Breckenridge Street
After November Fifteenth
Kentucky Irish American, Saturday, October 26, 1907
Wednesday evening at the rectory of St. Martin's church was solemnized a very quiet and pretty marriage ceremony. The happy couple were Charles Barker and Miss Minna Dewitt. The bride was handsomely attired and was attended by her sister, Miss Olive, as maid of honor, and Miss Anna Newhouse as bridesmaid, Arthur Dehler and Dr. L. J. Ernsberger acting as groomsmen. Rev. Father Ohle performed the ceremony, after which the party left for the bride's home on Ormsby avenue, where there was a reception for the bride and groom and their friends and relatives.
Census (family)
Precinct 15, Lousiville ED 481400 Beckenridge
Barker, Charles L. Head 29
Minnia C. Wife
Marcella D. Daughter 6/12
Census (family)
SD 5, ED 48, sheet 6A, Ward of City 1, Precint 13.1403 Beckingridge, Louisville.
Barker, Charles L. Head 38 KY Supervisor (?) Goverment
Minnie Wife 35 KY
Renting house
Census (family)
1182 Broadway. rent 50Charles L Barker Head M 58 Kentucky, same house, Accountant, Accounting
Minna D Barker Wife F 57 Kentucky
Census
Barker, Julia, WF, 65 Mar, KY, Surgical Dressing, Private HospitalBarker, Lina, sister-in-law, WF 72, nev. KY, Seamstress, Tailor Shop
Barker, Julius, WM, 74, mar, KY
Barker, Minna D. sister-in-law, WF, 64, Widowed, KY, office cleark, never employed
Bartly Joe, Lodger WM, 60, Wid, KY, maintainance man, hardwood floor Co.
Death
"Sad news - my sister passed away yesterday morning, Friday, in the infirmary at the Christian Church Home. A complication of diseases - cancer proved not rested - asthma, heart condition. She had been in and out of infirmary since Dec. 26, 68. Nancy, a wonderful person, and a cousin, made all arrangements and the burial is to be Monday morning.Lafe didn't feel equal to going back for the services [sister Minna's death]. He is still grieving over Nellie's death [Lafe Jrs. wife], two years ago. He did visit with Nancy [Birch] in Louisville in Sept. and saw Minn three of four times then. She led a sad, lonely life since the death of two children, one, an infant, Pamela - pardon me, Marcella age twelve. I have told you that she drank polluted stream water at a Fourth of July picnic. Then her husband passed away in 1949." " Letter written by Olive Dewitt Prouty April 25, 1970.
MINNA BARKER
Date 700424
Age 084
Place JEFFN
Residence JEFFERSON
Volume 025
Cert 12042
Deathvol 70
Endnotes
1. DeWitt family records written by Lafe DeWitt and Olive DeWitt, 1938 (Santa Rosa, CA: Family records held by Charles DeWitt Prouty.).
2. "Society," Kentucky (Louisville) Irish American, 26 October 1907, Wedding of Charles Barker and Minna Dewitt; Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/ : accessed 29 March 2010).
3. "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 23 March 2014), Charles Lewis Barker and Minnie Charlotta Dewitt, 22 Oct 1907.
4. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1910 > Kentucky > JEFFERSON > 1-WD LOUISVILLE Series: T624 Roll: 484 Page: 65.
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1920 > Kentucky > JEFFERSON > 1-WD; LOUISVILLE; 13-PCT Series: T625 Roll: 578 Page: 138.
6. KENTUCKY DEATH INDEX 1911-1986 (Kentucky Vital Records Index,