Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Barnard, Lydia M. 1920
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Lyons Herald, 28 Oct 1920

Mrs. Lydia M. Barnard was born in the state of New York April 17th, 1830.  She 
spent her girlhood life in that state removing to Ohio about 1854.  In 1857 she 
came to Lyons, Mich., remaining here a citizen of this village until August 
27th, 1918, at which time she went with her sister, Mrs. Verona Coon, to Kansas 
City, Mo., to make her home with her niece, Mrs. Corinne Abney, where she died 
October 22nd, at the age of ninety years, six months and five days.

She was a woman of wonderful cheerfulness and optimism under all the changing 
circumstances of life.  A truly wonderful woman in her never failing spirit of 
good cheer.  In October of 1865 she was united in marriage to Winfield S. 
Barnard.  She survived her husband by about thirty years.

The Baptist church was the church of her choice and it was her wish that she be 
buried from that church which she habitually attended with her husband until 
physically disabled.

She loved her home and Lyons friends, and regretted the necessity of going to 
another home to pass the last few years of her life, but circumstances seemed 
to necessitate such change.  She died of erysipelas which circumstances 
prevented her friends from viewing the remains.

The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from the Baptist church, Rev. V.C. Webb 
officiating.  Music was furnished by Frank Strong with Mrs. E.M. Vance at the 
organ.  Interment in the Lyons cemetery.


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