Obituary of Reuben BARNEY
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives March 25, 2000 by Rob Bowe
< srbowe@wolf.co.net >

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Obituary....

Mr. Reuben Barney, a short notice of whose death appeared in our last 
issue, was born in Caoga County, N.Y., May 17, 1838.  He was married to
Clarissa A. Hart at Hartwick, N.Y. on November 29, 1856.  Of this union
four children were born, three of whom preceded Mr. Barney in death.  The
only living child is James Emery Barney who has been in the Panama Canal
zone in the government service for several years.

Mr. and Mrs. Barney came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1860 and located at
Saylesville, where they have since made their home.  They were the oldest
residents of this neighborhood and have seen their old friends and
neighbors, one by one, pass on to "that home from which no traveler ever
returns," until but very few of the old settlers are left.

Mrs. Barney, known to the entire community as "Aunt Clara" who has been
a constant companion to Mr. Barney during their fifty-two years of married
life, was with him constantly during his long illness, patiently bearing
the burden that would have crushed many a younger woman.  She has the
sympathy of a host of friends in this time of her bereavement.