Josephine Lavinia Gilchrist

b. June 1850, d. 24 October 1919
  • Josephine Lavinia Gilchrist was born in June 1850 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
  • She married Franklin Rush Barrett, son of James Howard Barrett and Elizabeth W. Parks, on 7 December 1871 in Coosa County, Alabama.
  • Franklin Rush Barrett and Josephine Lavinia Gilchrist appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Axtell, McLennan County, Texas.
  • Josephine Lavinia Gilchrist became a widow at the 22 June 1910 death of her husband.
  • Josephine Lavinia Gilchrist died on 24 October 1919 at age 69.
  • Mrs. Josephine Lavinia Barrett applied in August 1911 for a Confederate widow's pension, citing husband's service with Company B, 34th Alabama Infantry Regiment, CSA. The approval process dragged on until 1916. Also in the file, in addition to dozens of pages of correspondence related to the pension, is a short letter from their son William Wood Barrett to the Pension Commissioner in Austin informing him of Josie Barrett's death on 24 October 1919.
  • Last Edited: 9 Sep 2014

Family: Franklin Rush Barrett b. 23 November 1844, d. 22 June 1910