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Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
1831-1919, daughter of William Henry and Mary (Singleton) Huddleston, was
born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, on March 29, 1831. Her father was
a Methodist minister. She was educated in music and literature and taught
in a girls' school before she married Robert Barr, an accountant, of
Glasgow. After Barr lost his fortune, the couple sailed for America. They
lived briefly in Chicago and Memphis and in 1856 settled in Austin, Texas,
where Barr found employment as an auditor for the state of Texas. Mrs.
Barr died in New York on March 10, 1919. |
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