Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....BARKER, MRS. CHARLES August 1890
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THE ADVERTISER, FT. GAINES, AUG 27, 1890
DEATH AND A FUNERAL
THE UNTIMELY ENDING OF A USEFUL AND BEAUTIFUL LIFE.

MRS. CHARLES D. BARKER, WIFE OF MR. CHARLES D BARKER, EDITOR OF THE SOUTHERN 
STAR, WAS BURIED YESTERDAY.

MRS. BARKER'S DEATH OCCURED WEDNESDAY NIGHT ABOUT 11 OCLOCK AT THEIR HOME ON 
THE CORNER OF IRWIN AND HILLIARD STREETS.

SHE WAS A MOST ESTIMABLE LADY, A SISTER OF HONORABLE S.D. COLEMAN MAYOR OF 
FORT GAINES, AND A DAUGHTER OF MR. JAMES COLEMAN OF ALABAMA, ONE OF THE 
PROMINENT MEN OF THAT STATE.

MRS. BARKER WAS A GRADUATE OF JUDSON FEMALE COLLEGE, ALABAMA AND WAS A WEALTHY 
LADY OF THE FINEST CULTER AND ATTAINMENTS.

THE FUNERAL OCCURED AT THE RESIDENCE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, AND WAS CONDUCTED BY 
REV. T.P. CLEVELAND, IN A MOST IMPRESSIVE MANNER.  A LARGE CONCOURSE OF 
FRIENDS FOLLOWED THE REMAINS TO THEIR LAST RESTING PLACE IN OAKLAND.

THERE WILL BE NO ISSUE OF THE SOUTHERN STAR THIS WEEK, IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE 
SAD AFFLICTION THAT HAS BEFALLEN MR. BARKER IN WHICH HE HAS THE SYMPATHIES OF 
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY.

PRINTED IN THE FT GAINES ADVERTISER COURTESY OF THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.

Additional Comments:
DAUGHTER OF JAMES COLEMAN, ALABAMA.
SISTER OF S.D. COLEMAN--FT. GAINES

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