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Bark, George W.1848 -1896

BARK

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/22/2021 at 15:01:22

Source: Decorah Republican Dec. 24, 1896 P 3 C 2

Killed and Cremated Himself.
Maynard, Dec. 20.—At 8 o’clock last evening Geo. W. Bark a farmer two miles north of Maynard, set fire to his house and went to his bedroom and shot himself, and his body was found in the ruins at 11 p. m. His family was absent when the deed was done. He was tired of life. He was a resident of Fayette county fifteen years.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave Shows he was born Sept. 4, 1848 and died Dec. 19. 1896. He is buried in the Center Grove Cemetery.


 

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