OBIT: Jane (HAMILTON) BARR, 1878, Alexandria, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by P Barr 10.emlet@telus.net Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm __________________________________________ OBITUARY - On Friday morning last, Mrs. Jane H. Barr, wife of Rev. J. C. Barr, pastor of the Alexandria, Huntingdon county Presbyterian church, departed this life at her home in that place, after an illness of but four days. Her age was fifty years less seventeen days. The disease which so hurriedly called her from earthly pleasures and cares was Malignant Sore Throat, from which she suffered severely. On Sunday prior to her illness and death, she occupied her place in the choir of her husband's church and was in her place as Sabbath school teacher. Her remains were interred in the cemetery adjoining Alexandria on Monday, the concourse of relatives and friends being very large. Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Birmingham, conducted the services, Dr. Moore, Rev. Kelly, of Spruce Creek, and Rev. Peters, of Alexandria, assisting. The deceased was born in Florence, Washington county, Pa. She graduated at the Washington Female Seminary in early life and afterwards taught in the South some five years - two in South Carolina and two in Kentucky. Married in Ohio in 1855, Mr. and Mrs. Barr removed to Illinois in the same year, where they remained some sixteen years. Mr. Barr received a call from the Alexandria Presbyterian church and located at that place about six and a half years ago, which congregation and community generally is now mourning the loss of an earnest co-worker of her husband in the cause of Christ, as well as a good, kind and entertaining neighbor and friend. Besides her husband, two children, a girl and a boy, survive her, as well as a sister, who has made her home with the family for many years, and other sisters and brothers residing in the west. Mr. S. W. Barr and Mrs. J. M. Harper of this place, are brother and sister of Rev. Barr. Thus endeth the earthly career of an affectionate and faithful wife, mother, sister and friend, who has soared into the regions beyond to realize the truth of the last thought - life everlasting - written by her husband while engaged at preparing a sermon for last Sabbath, and which was abruptly stopped when but half finished, by her request, while suffering from the increasing severity of the pain attending the disease which so soon proved fatal. Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., April 4, 1878 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/