Mary Ann Douglas was born January 1863 in Wayne County, GA. She is the daughter of Burrell Douglas Sr. and Mary Ann Strickland. Mary Ann was born about 4 months after her father Burrell had enlisted in the 24th Batallion, Georgia Cavalry.

  The first record we see Mary Ann Douglas on is the 1870 Glenmore, Ware County, GA census in her father Burrell Douglas Sr.'s household. Also in the same house are her siblings, William, Henry, Jane, Seaborn and Burrell Jr. Also residing in the same house is Nancy Carter and her son William.

  On December 25, 1877 Mary Ann marries William Albert Barber, son of Obediah Barber and Nancy Stephens, in Ware County, GA. Obediah Barber was given the title "King of the Okefenokee Swamp".  It was told that Obediah Barber killed a bear single handily with an old stump. Mary Ann and William Albert Barber's children were Moses born August 1881, William R. born September 1882, Julia M. born August 1884, Albert C. born August 1886, Everett Obediah born November 1887, Mary E. born July 1889, Jesse J, born January 1891, Claud born January 1894 and Hardy S. born circa

  Mary Ann in on the 1880 Glenmore, Ware County, GA census with her husband William, and next door to Obediah Barber. Mary Ann is on the 1900, 1910 and 1920 Glenmore, Ware County, GA census as a widow. William Albert Barber died in 1898 and is buried near his father, Obediah Barber, in the old section of the Kettle Creek Cemetery in Ware County, GA.  Mary Ann Douglas Barber is buried in High Bluff Cemetery in Brantley County, GA just outside of Hoboken, GA by some of her children.