Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Barnard, Levi J.   1922 April 15, 1922
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Sentinel Standard – Thursday, 20 April 1922
BARNARD, Levi J.   1922
DOD:  15 April 1922
Sentinel Standard – Thursday, 20 April 1922

Levi J. Barnard was born March 30, 1858 in New Albion, N. Y., and passed away 
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Della Hope, East Lansing, on April 15, 
1922.  He was 12 years of age when he came to Ionia County, Michigan.  For 
about eight years he worked by the month in summer and for his room and board 
during the school year.  He was very ambitious and saving.  His ideal was to 
own a farm of his own as soon as possible.

At 20 years of age he began work on a farm for himself.  In a short time the 
Civil war was declared and he at once enlisted.  He was with Company M Sixth 
Michigan Cavalry.  He was in the battles of the Wilderness, Gettysburg, 
Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and the entire Potomac campaign.

He spent six months in the different rebel prisons, the greater share of this 
time in Libby and Andersonville.  When he returned home from the war he was 
married to Miss Della Hubbard, of Painesville, Ohio, and they went at once to 
housekeeping on the 80-acre farm which he had previously purchased.  In two 
short years the death angel visited this home and took the young mother and 
infant daughter, three years later he was married to Miss Amie Bliss, of 
Madison, Ohio, niece of the late Rev. Daniel Bliss, missionary and founder of 
the Syrian Protestant College in Asia.

Mr. and Mrs. Barnard lived on this farm of 80 acres for 17 years.  Soon after 
this marriage he bought 140 acres across the road, making a farm of 220 acres, 
which he worked all these years.  He was a successful farmer and took great 
pride in fine looking fields.  Mrs. Barnard passed to her reward nine years 
ago.  Mr. Barnard remained on the farm, but the responsibility became too 
great for a man of his years and he decided to sell and spend his last days 
with his daughter, Mrs. Della Hope.  He went to East Lansing last October, 
where he has had a pleasant home and the best of care.  He has failed 
gradually for the past two years, yet he was up and around more or less until 
the last day.  The end came rather unexpectedly, going as he had often 
expressed the hope that he might go – falling asleep and waking in the other 
world.

Mr. Barnard led a long and useful life.  He leaves three daughters, Mrs. J. C. 
Morse, of Breckenridge, Mo.; Mrs. C. E. Sessions, of Ionia, Mich. and Mrs. 
Della Hope, of East Lansing, and two sons, Eljie Barnard, of Ionia, and Earl 
Barnard, of Grand Rapids; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren and 
a host of friends who appreciated his sterling worth as a man and as a true 
friend.



Sentinel Standard – Wednesday, 19 April 1922

The funeral for Levi J. Barnard was held from the residence of his daughter, 
Mrs. Della Hope, 613 Grand River avenue, East Lansing on Tuesday morning at 10 
o’clock and from the Baptist church here yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock, 
Rev. E. E. Branch officiating.  The music was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Earl 
Adgate and burial took place in Letts cemetery beside the body of his wife.  
The bearers were Levi Marshall, Guy Conner, Elmer Curtis, Ross Benedict, Elmer 
Cowan and Frank Bradford.  Among those from out of the city were Mr. and Mrs. 
Earl Barnard of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Della Hope and daughter of Lansing, Mr. and 
Mrs. Spaulding of Lansing.



Sentinel Standard – Thursday, 20 April 1922

CARD OF THANKS:  We wish to publicly thank the Rev. E. E. Branch, those who 
furnished the music and the G. A. R., W. R. C., the neighbors and friends for 
their many acts of kindness, the many words of comfort, and expressions of 
sympathy - all of which lightened our load of sorrow and make it easier to lay 
away our beloved father and grandfather, the Late Levi J. Barnard.

		The Sons, Daughters and Grandchildren.



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