Elisha George Barnard, 1838-1903

BARNAR, CHARLSON

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/5/2013 at 07:44:50

DEATH OF E. G. BARNARD
A Former Well Known Iowa Newspaper Man.

Elisha George Barnard died at Nichols hospital this morning at 4:30 a. m., aged sixty-four years, 11 months and 22 days.

Mr. Barnard was born at Lyons, Wayne Co. N. Y., in 1838, where he resided until 1868, when with his parents he moved to Iowa and soon after entered into the newspaper business in partnership with his brother. For fifteen years they conducted a strictly republican paper in various parts of that state. First they located at Ackley, Iowa, then in 1882 they moved to Spencer, Iowa where they purchased the Spencer Reporter.

In 1883 Mr. Barnard married Teckla Charlson in Spencer, Iowa. Four children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy and two are left to mourn the loss of an indulgent father.

Before the deceased entered the newspaper business he had held the position of clerk in the recorders office of Wayne county N. Y., and travelled all over Michigan and through the Missouri valley as a fur buyer.

In 1890 Mr. Barnard dissolved partnership with his brother and for two years he resided in Everly, Iowa, where he published the Everly News, and was honored by the appointment as postmaster under Harrison's adminisration. On account of ill health he sold his paper and resigned his position as postmaster and moved to Battle Creek, Mich., in 1893. Since then he has lived a very retired life, holding for the most of the time the position of compositor on the Review and Herald in this city and was one of the last to escape from that building when it burned last December.

While Mr. Barnard has been in ill health for a number of years, the immediate cause of his death was a malignant form of typhoid fever. He was ill sixteen days and just one week before his death he was removed removed from his home, No. 180 North Washington Avenue, to the hospital where he received the best care possible but to no avail. The end came peacefully he being unconscious for several days before he expired. He leaves a sister, wife and two children to mourn his loss. The remains will be buried in Spencer, Iowa, beside his father, mother and two children.

The body arrived in Spencer yesterday morning and was taken to Riverside cemetery, the members of the Masonic lodge acting as escort.

Source: Spencer Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; May 6, 1903.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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