OBIT: ROSSVILLE BUILDING LOAD DIRECTOR, FORMER CONTRACTOR CLAIMED BY DEATH AT
AGE 80 

James William Barcus   Rossville (cns)-- Director of Rossville Building Load
and former building contractor, James William Barcus, 80 died at 4 a.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1942 at his home of a heart attack. 
	Son of John and Mary Hoagland Barcus he was born Oct. 18, 1861.  He was
married Nov. 27, 1888, to Miss Mary Trusheim who survives.  He was a lifelong
resident of Rossville and a member of the Methodist Church here. 
	Surviving in addition to his wife and three children, George Benjamin Barcus
of Rossville, Mrs. Adaline Bennett of Hooopeston and Lawerence  Barcus of
Waukegan, Ill; Two brothers, George in North Dakota and Charles of Urbana; two
sisters Mrs. Lilly thomas of Washington D. C. and Mrs. Berta Huffman of Grape
Creek Ill; nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.  
	The body is at Freese Funeral Home.


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