Aaron Barling

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SOURCE: Thomas Jefferson Lovett & Steve Moffett
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"Aaron Barling was one of five children and was by trade a sailmaker. Being
left an orphan at an early age, he was reared by an aunt. When quite a boy he +
went to sea and followed a seafaring life for twelve years. Aaron was married +
during this time to Ms. Rebecca Tucker, a native of Maryland. She was born +
October 14, 1791. After his marriage, Mr. Barling followed the sea until he +
joined the United States Army and with the first troops came to Arkansas, where +
he helped to locate Ft. Smith. He was in the Federal Service for about five +
years when he finally received his discharge. He was promoted to the rank of +
Sergeant. His family had previously joined him at Ft. Gibson, and of the six +
children born to this union, three are now living. Sophia, subject of this +
sketch, Henry and Robert. After resigning his position in the army, Mr. +
Barling bought a farm in what is now Sebastian County (Lovely Co.) and upon +
this farm the family was reared. About 1835 Aaron Barling was employed by the +
government to issue supplies to the Seminole Indians, and in the Spring of +
1841, he moved back to his farm. In 1853 he moved with the family to Ft. Smith +
and here Mrs. Barling died July 27 of the same year. On March 22 of the +
following year, Mr. Barling also died."
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(from a Memoriam written by (Mary) Emma Barling wife of (Albert) Blanton +
Barling.)
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Aaron Barling a member of Company H of the 7th U. S. Infantry.
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He was born in London, England, on June 4, 1792 and came to America with his +
father and mother a year later, settling in Baltimore, Md. When he grew up he +
became a sailmaker by trade. On March 5, 1812 he married Miss Rebecca Tucker. +
In 1819 he enlisted in the United States Army for a period of five years and +
arrived at Fort Smith in February 1822. He was honorable discharged in 1824 +
upon the expiration of his five-year term of enlistment, after which he +
purchased 450 acres of land at what is now Barling, Arkansas. The next year, +
1825, his wife traveled by boat from Baltimore to New Orleans and from there up +
the river to Fort Smith where she joined her husband.
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"It is interesting to note the land on which the Army is now laying out a
camp site was formerly the property of Aaron Barling, one of the first american +
soldiers to arrive in this area." (from The Fort Smith National Cemetery, +
History of the United States National Cemetery and Military Occupation of Fort +
Smith, Arkansas, Prepared under the direction of The Quartermaster General, +
U.S. Army, J.Q.M.D. 5M--1-8-42)

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http://www.uark.edu/depts/speccoll/findingaids/sizer/index.html#SPARKS
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SPARKS, MITCHELL, d. 1864.
FAMILY PAPERS, 1835-1909.
MS Sp4
782 items.
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Correspondence, memoranda, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records,
and other material pertaining to the business, commercial, and legal
affairs of Fort Smith, Arkansas merchant Sparks, to the firm of Mitchell
and Parke. and to the personal, familial, political, religious,
educational, social, business, and legal affairs of the related Sparks-
Bennett- Barling-Kannady-Pryor families, principally in and around Fort
Smith and Van Buren, Arkansas and the Indian Territory.
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Most of the material dates from after Sparks' death, and pertains to the
affairs of his widow and surviving relatives, especially as regards the
administration of his estate by Hannah Bennett Sparks. Other
correspondents and persons to whom the material relates include Aaron
Barling, Robert C. Barling, Asa Bennett, Jerry K. Kannady, Sophia
Barling Kannady, William Parke, Kate Barling Pryor, Neil Pryor, Sarah
Ann Barling Pryor, D. B. Sparks, George T. Sparks, James M. Sparks,
Lilly G. Pryor Sparks.
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An inventory and calendar enable access to individual documents.
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Purchased c. 1955.

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PDF Aaron Barling Land Patent AR0470_362 (1820)