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I'm not related to this family, but saw this interesting article published in a book entitled: "The Heritage of Marshall County, Alabama".
"Earl LaBarre was born January 7, 1878, in Wukwaunageo, Wisconsin. When Earl was a teenager, the LaBarre family moved to Missouri and tried their hand at farming. Around 1896 the grasshoppers were so thick they stalled a train and devoured all the crops. The very next year the crops were destroyed by cinch bugs and the following year by the drought.
Earl gave up on farming and went to work for the U.S. Quarter Master buying mules for the Army. In August, 1898, he traveled with a Lt. Co. Smith to Santiago, Cuba, and a couple of weeks after arriving he was in the hospital with yellow fever. Earl was discharged from the hospital in October after regaining his strength, returned to the U.S.
In November 1898, he sailed aboard the S.S. Lenox, with a shipment of livestock for the Philipines. He remained in the Philippines until 1905, working for the government as a disbursing agent for relief rations and a road construction foreman in the providences.
Earl was 27 when he returned to the U.S. and his family had moved to Sand Mountain in Alabama. He traveled by train to Scottsboro, and by carriaage from Scottsboro to Sand Mountain. They saw only three houses on the trip.
In October 1910, Earl LaBarre and Ida Lee Pittman were married. In 1912, when their daughter, Merle, was born, all the country was open range and farmers had to fence their land. Earl and Ida Lee cleared and fenced several acres and began to farm.
In 1915 Earl traded a cow and a few dollars for a blacksmith shop and worked as a blacksmith until cars came to Sand Mountain. He learned to repair cars and was owner/operator of a repair shop until arthritis forced him to quit. Earl then worked in a store for a few years before he finally retired for good.
Earl LaBarre was buried on his 101st birthday, January 7, 1979. He and Ida Lee are buried in the Pleasant View Cemetery."
This article was submitted by Audrey Simpson, 716 Williams, Boaz, AL 35957.
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