Hello list members; While searching for information for the Augustine Sackett who invented the plasterboard I found some information for a daughter of 1521 Augustine Sackett which Weygant did not have in his book: Virginia Genealogies and Biographies, 1500s-1900s Virginia and Virginians, 2 volumes; c. 1888 Robert Alonzo Brock and Virginia A. Lewis Two-thirds of this work is devoted to biographical and genealogical sketches of prominent Virginia citizens. The majority of Volume 2, for example, contains sketches of 1000+ prominent citizens who were alive at the time of the book's original publication (approximately 1888). Virginia and Virginians, page 704 Rev. George R. Barr: D.D. The subject of this sketch is the oldest son of Dr. William Barr, who was born in Greenbrier county, (then) Virginia, and raised in Halifax county, Virginia. The father of Dr. Wm. Barr was Isaac Barr, who was born in Fairfax county, Virginia. When sixteen years of age, he (Isaac Barr) volunteered as a private in the Revolutionary Army, and continued in the service of his country till the war closed, and then received an honorabel discharge. He soon thereafter married a Miss Foster, and removed to Greenbrier county. Dr. William Barr removed from Halifax county, Virginia, to Stokes county, North Carolina, where he married Rebecca Ray. The son, George R., was born in that county, July 25, 1810. In November, 1823, the family made thier home in Abingdon, where Dr. William Barr died in 1858. Rev. George R. Barr has been twice married, his first wife Sarah, daughter of Jacob Rodefer, of Shenandoah county, Virginia. She was born in that county, became the wife of Dr. Barr in Abingdon, October 25, 1831, and died on March 12, 1874. eight living children are the issure of this marriage: Mary E. C., Ann Maria, John W., Margaret J., page 705 William F., David, Lizzie P. and Henry C. John, David and Henry gallantly represented this honored family in the army of the South, during the late war. John now resides in Abingdon, David at Smithfield, Virginia; Henry in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Barr maried secondly in New York, on June 7, 1877, Rev. Mr Bailey officiating clergyman, Martha J., daughter of Col. Augustine Sackett, of New York, born in Canandaigua, that State, June 10, 1830. The record of the public services of Dr. Barr shows a life devoted to the service of humanity. He was ordained a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church in 1842, was several years president of the virginia Conference of that church, a number of times representative to the General Conference and to various conventions of the church. From September 1, 1841, to February 13, 1873, he was associate editor and proprietor of the Abingdon Virginian, Charles B. Cole associated with him as senior editor. He has been twenty-two years consecutively secretary of Wateman Lodge, No., 219, A.F. & A.M., and for the last five years secretary of MaCabe Lodge, I.O.O.F., No. 56. -------------- Regards, Thurmon