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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 327

Today's Topics:
  #1 JAMES W. BARR - DELAWARE COUNTY      [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #2 Henry Fix Obit.- Williams Co., OH    ["John E. Taylor, Jr." <jetj@bright]
  #3 OBIT: SIMPSON, Franklin County, 19   [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25]

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X-Message: #1
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:08:14, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: JAMES W. BARR - DELAWARE COUNTY


BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - page 407

        JAMES W. BARR, teacher, was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia,
March 7, 1834. His parents, Stephen and Rachel (Hester) Barr, were natives
of Virginia, where the father died in 1858. He was a blacksmith by trade.
The mother came North during the war, and died in Michigan in 1882. They
had six children, three daughters and three sons. The family are of
Scotch-Irish descent. James W. was educated at Woodstock Academy,
Shenandoah County, Virginia, and has now taught school thirty-four years.
He went to Delaware County, Ohio, in June, 1861, where he taught school the
next nine years. In 1870 he went to Southwestern Missouri, where he taught
school, thence to Indian Territory, teaching five years, thence to Rush
County, Indiana, four years, thence to his present home. He was married
September 27, 1860, to Rebecca A. Bader, who was born in Shenandoah County,
Virginia, January 9, 1841. They have had seven children -Rosa, deceased,
William F., Carrie M., Stanley B., Cora Grace, Charles S. and Ida P.,
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Barr are members of the Christian church. Mr. Barr
was living in the South at the breaking out of the Rebellion, and was one
of the many Union men who were opposed to the war. He was forced into the
Confederate service, but came North the first opportunity after the
beginning of hostilities. He now resides on section 25, Wabash Township,
and followed farming in connection with teaching. He united with the church
about 1856, and having a call to preach, followed that calling ten years.
He was finally obliged to retire from the ministry on account of his
health. He left his wife in Virginia, in June, 1861, while he came North,
in company with another family, and they were carried from one place to
another by Union people until they reached the Union lines. They were held
as prisoners ten days by the Confederates and then discharged. Mrs. Barr
reached her husband in Delaware County, Ohio, January 5, 1862.

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X-Message: #2
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:38:27 -0400
From: "John E. Taylor, Jr." <jetj@bright.net>
Subject: Henry Fix Obit.- Williams Co., OH


The Bryan Democrat - January 21, 1886

DIED - Henry George Fix died at the residence of his son Martin Fix in
Florence township, Williams county, Ohio, January 5, 1886. He was born in
Roppenheim, Alsace, December 25, 1802, married in 1826 to Saloma Glass by
whom he had eight children, six boys and two girls, all of whom are living
except, perhaps, one son who went to California in March 1863, and who has
not been heard from for nearly twenty three years. Henry George Fix moved
from Alsace to Wayne county, Ohio in 1843, and a year later came to
Williams county where he continued to reside until his death. His wife died
in 1873, since which time he has made his home with his children.

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X-Message: #3
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 18:24:38 -0400
From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003643>
Subject: OBIT: SIMPSON, Franklin County, 1951


   From:  INTERNET:DBlake9783@aol.com

FUNERAL RITES ARE HELD ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR MRS. VIVIAN SIMPSON

With Williams and McNabb morticians in charge, funeral rites were
conducted Friday, at 2 p. m., at St. Paul AME church for Mrs. Vivian
Gwendolyn Simpson, late of 74 1/2 North 22nd St.
Pallbearers were Dr. William C. Anderson, Messrs. John Carr, Jr., Edward
L. Ford, Marshall Cobb, J. Ben Turner and John Shepherd.
Officiating at the services was the pastor, Dr. A. Sydney King, who read
the scripture lesson and gave the invocation and eulogy.  Selections were
rendered by the senior and Gospel choirs of the church.  Miss Blanche M.
Van Hook read the obituary.
Seated in a body were members of Stewardess Boards Nos. 1 and 2 of the
church and Esther Chapter No. 3, Order of the Eastern Star.  They assisted
in bearing the many lovely floral tributes sent in token of esteem to the
deceased.
Mrs. Simpson was the daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Hill.  She
was born Nov. 29, 1892, in Columbus, and after a brief illness, died here
July 2, 1951.
She was a life-long resident of Columbus and became one of its most
useful citizens.  She was actively identified with several organizations. 
When she lived on the Hilltop she was a member of Oakley Av. Baptist church
for a number of years, but after moving to the Eastside she joined St. Paul
AME church and belonged to the 20th Century club of the church.
At the time of her demise, she was worthy matron of Esther Chapter No.
3, Order of the Eastern Star, and a member of Alla Baba Court No. 75,
Daughters of Isis.
Among the survivors are her husband, Junius Simpson of Columbus, whom
she married 15 years ago; a daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Robinson of Los Angeles;
two sisters, Mrs. Frances Whittington of New York, N. Y. and Mrs. Eula
Lyman of Chicago; two brothers, Lawrence Hill and Leslie Hill, both of
Columbus; five nieces, Mrs. Anne Blakemore of Cleveland, Mrs. Dorothy
Madison, Mrs. Marie Louise Butler, Mrs. Ida Mae Lambert and Miss Jean
Kathryn Hill, all of Columbus; other relatives and a host of friends.
Mrs. Simpson was buried in Greenlawn cemetery.


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