JACKSON COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Barnett, John W. 1934

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Mr. John W. Barnett Passes Last Week

Mr. John W. Barnett, the son of Joseph and Virginia
Glenn Barnett, was born Nov. 22, 1860 and died Feb. 18,
1934.

For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were demolished we have a building of God, a
house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens"

In the going of Mr. Barnett to his heavenly home,
Commerce and the surrounding community has lost a
splendid, upright, honest, law-abiding citizen and a
faithful Christian. Such characteristics depict a truly
great life, no matter how quietly and unassumingly it
may have been spent.

As a child he was never robust and strong, and he had
to pass through the trying days of the war without a
father’s care and counsel, yet in spite of these
handicaps he developed into a man of high ideals and
noble character. His father, having died during the
war, the responsibility of rearing a daughter and son
fell to the lot of his godly mother, who imbedded into
his growing life such qualities as honesty, sobriety
and a reverence for God and His church. In about 1879
he united with the Blacks Creek Baptist church. Lately
he transferred his membership to the First Baptist
church, at Commerce, where he remained a faithful
member until his death, though feeble health had
prevented his regular attendance upon the services for
several years.

An outstanding blessing that came into his life was his
marriage, on August 25, 1887, to Bunie B. Minish, by
the sainted Rev. J. F. Goode. This union was blessed
with six children, all of whom are worthy Christian
citizens, all of the sons have been very active in
their respective churches, serving as Sunday school
superintendents. Thus the principles of his life are
being carried on and he still lives in the lives of his
children.

Besides his wife, he is survived by six children, E. J.
and F. L. Barnett of Sycamore, Ga.; Mrs. Jesse Eubanks,
Mrs. R. H. Jones, W. Y. Barnett and Mrs. A. B. Brown,
all of Commerce; also 21 grandchildren and one great
grandchild.

Many friends and relatives met as a last tribute to
this good man at the funeral services conducted by Rev.
C.C. Tooke, assisted by Rev. T. C. Hardman. Interment
was at the Apple Valley cemetery. Little-Ward in chare
of funeral.