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Good Lord....you have the info I've been seeking for at least 10 years....this ties into the anecdotal history of the O'Bars, much based on the research of a little old lady in Austin Texas and my research in the Fayette cty (Tx) historical files...the O'Bars go back a long way, but I could never get much past the names and a few dates....but anecdotally from the little old lady...whose files were't in order the last time I looked....
The story I've heard: two brothers were indentured servants, and ran away...they were posted as runaways in the Philadelphia papers incl. Ben Franklins. They made there way to the east coast and the Carolina's and eventually to an ara of northern Alabama and southern Tennesse (now covered by a Tennessee Valley Authoriy lake)...were they were the first (or among the first) Anglo blacksmiths there. They came to Texas and again were the first or among the first Anglo blacksmiths in the Fayette county area (Fayette county is about 100 miles away from Austin.)
Somewhere along the line they killed a black man and were prosecuted but my memory fades on anything else on that point).
I have the ancestral tree back to late 1700's but only remember bits here and there offhand. Ergo: My ggggg or so aunt Charlotte O'Bar, married Napoleon Bonaparte Breeding, a Texas Revolutionary war vet and so we are related to another very historied family (Texas history). In Fayette county, the highest hill is O'Bar hill and its near O'Bar creek. Rumored to be a O'Bar cemetary where "downtown" LaGrange Tx is today, but I haven't searched for it yet.
Love to hear from you asap.
Gary Stella,
Georgetown, Texas
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