Barnes, W. H.

BARNES, WILLIAMSON

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Fairfield Ledger
March 26, 1889
Page 3 col. 3

DEATH OF W. H. BARNES…..familiarly known in this city for many years as “PAP” BARNES. Consumption. MR. BARNES was a native of Maryland, and was in the 71st year of his age. He had been a resident of Iowa for about 40 years, living in Van Buren County before his removal here about 1860. He was a man of frugal habits and had accumulated considerable property in this city. He has probably rebuilt and refitted more houses than any person who ever resided in Fairfield, although most of them were of a cheap class, and was quite an extensive landlord. MR. BARNES was married here to MISS. CATHERINE WILLIAMSON, who with two children survives the husband and father…