Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Sarah BARBER

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Submitted by Kathy Grace, <gendiva@charter.net> November 2004

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Winneconne Local April 2, 1914 p.1

Sarah Elizabeth Barber was born on April 5, 1847, near Macclesfield, in the
County of Chester, England.  When she was about three years old her parents
came to America and settled on the farm which has ever since belonged to
the Barber family.  Here Miss Barber spent her life with the exception of a
few years, when with her parents, she lived in the village of Winneconne.  

Owing to physical infirmities her's was a decided home life, for many of
the last years she has not been able to move about except in a wheel chair.
Constant and tender care did much to brighten her life.  Still the days
must often have seemed long and dreary and that she was able to bear it all
with so much patience and cheerfulness call forth our wonder and
admiration.  She was a great lover of nature and her birds and flowers
brought her bits of the out of door life that were a great delight to her.

Her mind was very active and she took a keen interest in the people about
her and was an intelligent and careful student of the events of the day,
she was always a reader of the Bible and a few years ago her interest in
religious matters was greatly quickened and life came to have a new and
deeper Christian meaning.

Miss Barber's last sickness was very short from last Thursday to the
following Tuesday morning.  From the first she thought it would be fatal.
Her mind was clear to the very last and she took careful note of her
failing condition with the assurance of one who knows in whom she has
believed.  And now as we read the last chapter of The Revelation we can but
faintly imagine with what joy her happy spirit must have entered into the
beauty and gladness there described.

The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the house and
interment took place in the Bell cemetery, Rev. Freye officiating.