Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries:  Barney Shisler

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Submitted by: <dhr1953@hotmail.com>  Don Raymond

The Stanberry Owl-Headlight, Gentry County, Missouri, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1911:
     Barney Shisler was born Feb. 25, 1894, near Stanberry.  He was sick with
     Typhoid fever for nearly a month.  Finally the fever proved too severe for
     Barney, and on Nov. 9, 1911, his spirit returned to God who gave it.
     Barney was 17 years, 8 months and 11 days old.  He is survived by his
     parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Shisler and by his six brothers - Oria,
     Sherman, Troy, Alex, Raymond and Granville.

     The funeral was held Sunday, Nov. 12, at 3 p. m., at the First Christian
     church, conducted by Rev. A. W. Luce.  The church was filled with a large
     and sympathetic audience of kind friends, who had known and loved Barney
     Shisler.  Barney was a boy of lovable disposition, affectionate and
     obedient to his parents, kind and considerate of his many friends.

     At such a time, when on is in a home where there is a vacant chair; where
     the soul is dumb and we are in the presence of a great affliction, = then
     we rest upon the promises of Jesus, "I an the resurrection and the life, he
     that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live."

"The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead;
The heart of Rachel, for her children crying,
Will not be comforted.
"Let us be patient. Those severe afflictions
Not from the ground arise;
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.
"In that great cloister's pure and holy stillness,
By guardian angels led;
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
He lives whom we call dead."