Ross-Highland County OhArchives Obituaries.....Barrett, John November 7, 1898
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The Herald and Presbyter of Chillicothe, OH Presbytery, Nov. 23, 1898
REV. JOHN BARRETT
Rev. John Barrett was born near Newmarket,Highland County, O., September 5, 
1832.  He united with the Presbyterian Church in that place in his seventeenth 
year.  He prepared for college at Salem Academy and graduated at Miami 
University with the class of 1860.  He studied theology at Allegheny Seminary 
and was licensed by the Presbytery of Chillicothe at Winchester, Adams Counth, 
O., June 24, 1862.  In the following year, 1863, he accepted a call from Pisgah 
congregation ahd was ordained Wednesday, September 17,and installed pastor of 
that church.  For thirty-five years in the same pulpit, he has steadfastly 
preached the gospel.  He was not blown this way or that by every passing 
breeze, or lifted up and carried away by any whirlwind of popular excitement, 
but was a great calm man, who knew his work and did it, who stood squarely on 
his feet, a man fit to stand in the presence of a king, and who by all the 
things that, in the providence of God, surrounded and touched and shaped him, 
was fitted for standing in the presence of the King of Kings.  To take part in 
his ordination and installation Rev. W. G. Hillman was appointed to preach, 
Rev. S.P. Dunham to preside and make the ordaining prayer, Rev. R.W. Wilson to 
give the charge to the pastor and Rev. R.C. Galbraith, Jr. to the people.  The 
ordaining hands of Presbytery were never laid upon the head of a man truer to 
his convictions or more steadfast in his purpose.  He was ordained to preach 
the gospel, and this one thing he did.
On the 9th day of April, 1874, Mr. Barrett was married to Miss Anna Wilson, of 
Hillsboro, O.  Three children were given them, two of whom survive their 
father, and with their mother are called upon to bow submissively to the will 
of God in the removal of a devoted husband and father.  Of the children, James 
Thomas, a graduate of Wooster University, is teaching in Boonville Academy, 
Kentucky; Charles Wilson, a graduate of Center College, Kentucky, is teaching 
in Alexander College, Burksville, Ky., and Margaret Miller departed this life 
August 4, 1895, in her seventeenth year.
For some years Mr. Barrett's health has not been good, and on the 22nd of 
September, symptoms of serious illness manifested themselves, he gradually grew 
worse, and after much suffering he gently passed away Monday, November 7.
At times in his last illness his sufferings were intense but he endured them 
with marvelous patience and fortitude.  Theoughout all his sickness one thought 
seemed to take possession of this mind, and that was, "To depart and be with 
Christ was far better than recovery."
His work on earth is done, and done in such a way as to leave a deep impression 
on the community where, for a generation, he labored in the service of this 
Master.  An excellent pastor, an able expounder of the Word of God and a 
faithful friend, he has left behind him a large circle of friends outside of 
his family and congregation.
He was buried in Greenfield Cemetery November 10, the funeral services taking 
place in Pisgah Church, nine of his fellow presbyters being present, four of 
whom took part in the services.  A large congregation was in attendance.
Mr. Barrett was a man of broad culture, quick to understand and swift to 
appropriate any thought, modest and unobtrusive, he thought not too highly of 
himself, but he was not abashed by vulgar pretensions to greatness, and was 
never found bowing before and worshiping the hero of the hour.  He was a man of 
noble impulses and heroic build, who was afraid of nothing and cringed to no 
man.  He was the very soul of honor, and utterly incapable of any low trickery 
or petty meanness.
And then, what a delightful companion he was--genial cordial, alert, nothing 
enacted in his presence ever escaped his sight.  He saw, and saw clearly, 
everything and brightened everything with the corruscations of his sparking 
wit.  He was full of humor and all pleasantry, and yet there was nothing 
trivial or trifling about him.
He was a man of serious thought and earnest purpose, to whom men could 
confidently go with serious questions, knowing that they would get serious 
answers. 
As he lay unconscious, every breath shorter ahn the one preceding it, the dear 
ones who stood beside him watched with tearful, melancholy interest, and at 
length, when the breath had ceased, when the soul had taken its departure, they 
said, their utterance choked with sobs, "He is gone."  But there were watchers 
upon the other side as intensely interested, and at once the glad should rang 
out, inaudible to our deaf ears, but which echoed through all the streets and 
was heard in all the ivory palaces of heaven, "He is come."  "Lo! another of 
the children of men, for whom our Lord did die, has come, and he comes clothed 
upon with garments white so as no fuller on earth could white them, even the 
garments of the righteousness of Christ."
S.D. Crothers
R.C. Galbraith

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