Child was stillborn.
In 1880 census we find Barker Cushman Pickens and Ellen Brooks. In their
home was Hanna Brooks and Diana Sherman Pickens. A daughter Adaline age 14 and John Lester age 18. It says he was born in Ill. and was a cirsus performer. He is the son of John Lester Sr.
Notes from Mary Pickens, May 1989: "Later records sent to me give a little different date, this record, dated 6 Mar 1968, from the DAR sources, says Barker C. Pickens, born 26 Sept. 1826 and died 2 Aug 1902. Ellen Brooks
Pickens born 19 Aug. 1836, died 16 March 1901."
Death certificate of Barker Pickens, Occupation Farmer, age 74 years,
resident Pleasant Prairie, cause of death, Heart Disease, buried Wesley Cem.
Father John Pickens, born N.Y. state, Mother Dianah Sherman, born in Mass.
Birth place of dcd. N.Y. State. Widowed wife Ellen Brooks.
Esther J. Nelson gives 2 epitaphs, gives the cemetery records of Wesley
Cem. as birth date of 1826. Elsewhere it is 1828.
Mary Pickens gives the death date as 23 Oct. 1902.
Sent by Mary Pickens of Indiana.