The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 256
A portrait of Daniel Barbee appears in this publication.

DANIEL BARBEE.

A life of intense and well directed activity brought Daniel Barbee, now
deceased, to a position among the successful ranchers of the northwest. In 1906
he took up his abode a mile from Zillah, where he purchased thirty-four and a
half acres of partly improved land, and his remaining days were devoted to the
further development and cultivation of that place. He was horn in Iroquois
county, Illinois, June 7, 1841, a son of Solomon and Sarah (McFall) Barbee, the
former born May 25, 1812, and the latter born in Indiana, December 19, 1833. The
mother was a daughter of Joseph McFall. Mr. and Mrs. Barbee became pioneer
settlers of Illinois and subsequently removed to Missouri while in 1855 they
went to Iowa, establishing their home in Mills county, where they settled upon a
farm and resided throughout their remaining days.

Daniel Barbee acquired a public school education and took up the occupation of
farming as a life work. He was identified with agricultural interests in Iowa
for thirty-five years, or until 1905, when he removed to Yakima county and for a
year thereafter was a resident of Toppenish. In 1900 he brought his family to
their present home. which is situated a mile northwest of Zillah, and with
characteristic energy he began the further development and improvement of the
farm of thirty-four and a half acres which he purchased. He planted ten acres of
his land to Winesap apples, four acres to pears and also set out two hundred
Prune trees. Since his demise his wife has built a packing house upon the place
and also good barns and thus the work of further development and improvement is
being steadily carried forward.

It was on the 14th of June, 1808, that Mr. Barbee was married to Miss Mary E.
Fall, who was born in Monroe county, Iowa. March 12, 1850, a daughter of M. W.
and Elizabeth (Forshear) Fall, the former a native of Ohio while the latter was
born in Putnam county, Indiana. They removed to Monroe county, Iowa, in the
spring of 1848, and Mrs. Barbee still has in her possession an old gourd that
was raised by her mother in that year. She also has old candlesticks which were
used by the family, and an old dresser that was made in Indiana, taken to Iowa
and then brought across the country to the northwest. These are cherished
heirlooms in the family. Her parents purchased land in Iowa and there her father
carried on farming throughout his active business career. He reached the notable
old age of ninety-one years, while his wife was eighty-three years of age at the
time of her demise. They had a family of twelve children. To Mr. and Mrs. Barbee
were born eleven children: Wiley, the eldest, now farming the home ranch,
married Annie Hill and they had fourteen children, six of whom have passed away;
Stella is the wife of T. C. Mintle, who is engaged in farming in Nebaska, and
they have three sons; Arthur a rancher of Hav Springs, Nebraska, wedded Nellie
Alderson and has one daughter; Lester, who follows farming near Buena,
Washington, married Ellen Peterson and has one son; Lillie is at home with her
mother; Charles, who devotes his attention to farming in Iowa, married Laura
Stanford and has two daughters; Dollie is the wife of Calvin Calhoun, a ranchman
of Arizona; Mary is the wife of Sylvester Shelley, who follows ranching near
Zillah, and they have one son; Ernest, who is engaged in ranching near Buena,
married Rose Olson; Maude is the wife of Fred Hickenbotton, who is following
ranching near Zillah; William who was the second of the family, died March 8,
1873, at the age of six weeks.

In 1917 Mrs. Barbee purchased a beautiful cement home at the edge of Zillah and
her place is called Cherry Hill Ranch. The death of Mr. Barbee occurred
November 10, 1908, and was the occasion of deep and widespread regret. He was a
devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was a prohibitionist in
politics, associations that indicate the high principles that governed his life
and shaped his conduct in all of his relations with his fellowmen. He had many
admirable traits of character, was kindly in spirit and generous in disposition
and had a very extensive circle of friends.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.