Blair-Mifflin-Centre County PA Archives Obituaries.....Barr, Samuel Wilson August 5, 1911
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Tyrone Herald  and others
A NOBLE LIFE ENDED

Samuel W. Barr, an Estimable Citizen of Tyrone, Passes Away.

Samuel Wilson Barr was born near Lewistown, April 25, 1834.  His age at death 
was therefore 77 years, 3 months and 11 days.  His early life was spent in the 
vicinity of the place of his birth, but as a young man he went to McVeytown 
where he held a clerkship in the general store of Macklin Brothers for about 
three years.  He then went to Williamsport where he was connected with the 
hardware business for a time, but he soon returned to Lewistown to take up a 
clerkship in the ofice of his father, who had been elected register and 
recorder of Mifflin county.  His father died during the term and the son was 
appointed to fill the vacancy, later being elected to the office himself, so 
that the subject of this present sketch served the people of Mifflin county in 
his official capacity during most of the time of the Civil War.  In 1866 Mr. 
Barr came to Tyrone and he has been a resident of this place ever since.  He 
first entered the hardware business as a member of the firm of Crawford & 
Barr, continuing that relation until 1872 when he accepted the position of 
bookkeeper at the planing mill of McCamant & Harper, later S. McCamant & Co., 
and he continued in this responsible capacity throughout the nearly two score 
years until his final illness.

Mr. Barr was the son of Samuel and Sibella Barr of whose eleven children he 
was the last to pass away.  One of his brothers, Rev. J.C. Barr, and two of 
his sisters, Mrs. J.M. Harper and Miss Sibella Barr, all deceased, were 
formerly residents of Tyrone.  It was on November 28, 1867, that Mr. Barr was 
united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Stiver, of Potter's Mills, Centre county, 
at that place, by Rev. William H. Groh.  To this union were born three 
children, one of whom, Ralph, died in 1879, aged six years.  The survivng son 
and daughter are William C. Barr and Miss Elsie S. Barr, of Tyrone.

By transfer from the Lewistown congregation Mr. Barr was enrolled as a member 
of the Tyrone Presbyterian church April 18, 1867 and was ordained an elder on 
September 29, 1867.

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And from the Daily Sentinel of Lewistown of 7 August 1911, another bit of 
information.

"When a young man he taught school near Linden Hall, Centre county, and later 
followed clerking in a general store in McVeytown."

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And from the Democratic Watchman newspaper of 11 August 1911 (Centre county):

"When the Civil war broke out he enlisted and served until its close when he 
returned to Centre county and lived at various places until 1868 when he went 
to Tyrone and went into the hardware business with James A. Crawford."



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