OBIT: Walter BARRETT, 1900, Clearfield, Clearfield County, PA

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COLONEL WALTER BARRETT DEAD.
At One Time Commanded the Eighty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers.

  Colonel Walter Barrett, a well known attorney of Clearfield, died at 
his home at that place at 11 o'clock Friday morning of cancer.  
Deceased was a son of Judge George R. Barrett, of Clearfield, was aged 
55 years and had resided in Clearfield all his life.  He was a veteran 
of the civil war, having served as lieutenant colonel in Colonel 
William G. Murray's gallant Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers.  
After Colonel Murray was killed in the battle of Winchester Lieutenant 
Colonel Barrett was given command of the regiment.  He also was injured 
in the famous fight, himself and horse going over the side of a bridge.  
Deceased was married to Miss Sophia deV. MacLeod, a sister of United 
States Commissioner A. P. MacLeod and Mrs. J. Kay Wrigley, of this 
city.  He is survived by his wife, three brothers and two sisters.  Mr. 
MacLeod and Mrs. Wrigley are in Clearfield to attend the funeral.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, February 26, 1900