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Napoleon Bonaparte Barbee
Full Name: Napoleon Bonaparte "Bunk" Barbee
Date of birth: June 6, 1837
Date of death: December 28, 1928
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Terms of Service top
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Legislatures |
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31
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Jan 10, 1899 - Jan 8, 1901
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26th
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Democrat
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Crockett / Houston
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Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston
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31
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Jan 12, 1897 - Jan 10, 1899
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25th
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Democrat
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Crockett / Houston
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Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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| Resolutions and Journal entries |
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41st Legislature, R.S., 2/11/1929, p. 589. Col. Napoleon Bonaparte Barbee.
Resolutions - Memorial.
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| Biographical Sketches |
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Napoleon Bonaparte "Bunk" Barbee (1836-1928), photo and biographical sketch, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Crockett, Houston County, with spouse Margaret Ann Barbee.
Find a Grave.
Obituary, Napoleon B. Barbee, "Pioneer Texan Dies at Crockett," 12/29/1928, p. 15.
Fort Worth Record-Telegram.
Family history of Dr. James G. Barbee by Mrs. Fannie Mae Barbee Hughes of Wharton, daughter of J.G. Barbee, Jr., pp. 127-128. Dr. James G. Barbee and Miranda Burrow Barbee, parents of J.G. Barbee, Jr., born 1851 in Crockett and married Fannie Barker Fifer. J.G. Barbee, Jr. and Col. N.B. Barbee - brothers. "Col. N.B. Barbee was his [J.G. Barbee, Jr.] oldest brother."
The History of Houston County, Texas, 1943.
Brief biographical sketch, N.P. Barbee, p. 158. Born 6/6/1837 in Carroll County, Tennessee.
Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature, 1897.
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Confederate States Army, Private, Company E, 6th Texas Cavalry (Gould's Battalion), Napoleon B. Barbee, enlisted 5/17/1862. N.B. Barbee of Crockett, Houston County, born circa 1837 in Clara County, Tennessee; death date 12/28/1928 in Crockett, Houston County, Texas. Pension File No. 21523, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958.
Ancestry.com.
Detailed account of Civil War military service "as a soldier in Company E, Gould's Battalion, Walker's Division." Interview with N.B. Barbee, "Crockett Man is Texas 'Forty-Niner,'" by W.S. Adair, in Dallas Semi-Weekly News, 10/21/1924.
Frontier Times Magazine.
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| Other Resources |
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Census of 1900 - Barbee [Napoleon B. Barbee], Crockett, Houston County, born June 1837 in Tennessee, State Representative, spouse Margaret A., son Napoleon B., daughter Nannie.
FamilySearch.
Colonel N.B. Barba [Barbee], birth date 6/6/1837 in Tennessee, death date 12/28/1928 in Crockett, Houston County, widowed.
FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
Interview with N.B. Barbee, "Crockett Man is Texas 'Forty-Niner.'"
Frontier Times Magazine.
Death notice, Napoleon Bunk Barbee, "Col. Napoleon Barbee Succumbs at Crockett," 12/29/1928, p. 1.
Waxahachie Daily Light.
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| Photographs |
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Photograph.
N.B. Barbee, 26th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph.
N.B. Barbee, 25th Legislature, State Preservation Board
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| Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol |
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25th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.
26th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.
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