The Ouachita Telegraph - G. W. Barfield Dies of Apoplexy

Date: Oct. 2000 
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, June 24, 1881
Page 2, Column 2

SUDDEN DEATH.
 On last Monday morning, G.W. Barfield and A.H. Bradley, together with
several other parties, were at Young’s store.  Bradley and Barfield were
joking each other, when Barfield became incensed at a remark made by
Bradley, and jumping from the counter upon which he had been reclining,
struck him on the nose, drawing the blood.  He, then running his hand in his
pocket, as if to draw a weapon, declared that he intended to take his life.
Bradley, who had no idea that Barfield was angry with him, caught him and
told him that the remark he had made was as a joke, and that he had no
intention of insulting him as he considered him one of the warmest friends
he had.  The appeared to satisfy Barfield but he suddenly staggered back,
requested some of the bystanders to pour water on his head and go for a
doctor, as he felt remarkably strange.  He was laid down, and was, in a short
time unconscious.  When medical assistance was obtained, the physicians
pronounced him affected with cerebral apoplexy.  He was taken to Mr.
Kenton’s and died that night at 10 o’clock, having been unconscious the
greater part of the time after being taken ill.  He leaves a wife and 3
children to deplore his loss.
 We have frequently read of death resulting from a violent outburst of
anger, but this is the first case of the kind that ever came under our
immediate notice. – Franklin Sun, 18th.

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