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N.B. Barbee

Napoleon Bonaparte Barbee

Full Name: Napoleon Bonaparte "Bunk" Barbee
Date of birth: June 6, 1837
Date of death: December 28, 1928

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 31 Jan 10, 1899 - Jan 8, 1901 26th   Democrat Crockett / Houston   Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston
H 31 Jan 12, 1897 - Jan 10, 1899 25th   Democrat Crockett / Houston   Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
26th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Crockett / Houston
Counties in district:
Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston

Legislatures:
25th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Crockett / Houston
Counties in district:
Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston

Biographical Information

  • 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.

  • 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, 1890-1977.
  • Napoleon B. Barbee (1836-1928), photo, 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.
  • 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.

  • Photograph. N.B. Barbee, 26th Legislature, State Preservation Board
  • Photograph. N.B. Barbee, 25th Legislature, State Preservation Board

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