John Osborn Bare (1941)
BARE, MCCORMICK, WALLIS
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 9/24/2006 at 09:00:45
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 19, 1941J. O. BARE, 88, DIED EARLY WEDNESDAY
Dean of Winterset Business Men Succumbs After Month Illness
Another of Madison county's most distinguished citizens passed this Wednesday morning with the death of John O. Bare, after an illness of four weeks. He was 88 years of age.
Mr. Bare was the dean of Winterset's business men, having operated his grocery store in the Bare block, southeast corner of the square, continuously since 1890, more than half a century. He held the distinction of having operated the first automobile service station between Des Moines and Omaha. It was installed in the outside wall of his grocery building shortly after 1905. He was one of Winterset's pioneer motorists.
John Osborn Bare was a native of Indiana where he was born Feb. 19, 1853, the son of Robert and Triphineia Bare. As a child he came with his parents to Iowa, and settled near Pleasantville, in Warren county, where he was reared. He was married there to Elizabeth McCormick. They moved to a farm just across the line in Adair county, spending a year and a half there, before moving to Winterset. After a few years in Winterset, they moved to South Dakota, where he farmed from 1883 until 1889. In the latter year he returned to Winterset, and in 1890 he went into business in the place he continuously operated until the time of his death.
Mr. Bare's wife died in 1920. He is survived by one son, Ben Bare of Winterset; one grandson, Maj. Robert Bare of the U.S. Marine corps, based at Quantico, Va.; one great granddaughter; three brothers, Dr. E. A. Bare of Pleasantville, O. N. Bare of Pleasantville, William Fosher of Estherville; and a sister, Mrs. Mamie Wallis of Oregon.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. this Thursday afternoon from Anderson's home for funerals, in charge of the Rev. W. A. Samp, pastor of the Methodist church.
Burial will be made in the Winterset cemetery.
_________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 20, 1941
Page 1, Column 2DEATH CLAIMS J. O. BARE, 88
Veteran Grocer of Winterset Died Wednesday After A Brief Illness.
John O. Bare, well known grocer in Winterset for the past fifty-one years died at his home Wednesday morning, following a few days illness.
Mr. Bare, who was 88 years of age, had been a resident the Winterset since 1875, with the exception of a few years spent in Dakota. He came to Winterset from Pleasantville, going to Adair county to herd cattle at Hebron. He maintained his residence in Winterset and was deputy sheriff under James Davis. Resigning the office he went to Dakota where he spent seven years and return here to operate a feed store near the southeast corner of the square.
Forty-two years ago Mr. Bare bought a grocery stock of Langlois and went into the grocery business in the same location he maintained during his career. The location is a famous one in Winterset’s history and in the pioneer days was occupied by the Goe House. In 1892 the store building and those adjoining on the east were purchased and became known as the Bare block.
He was born on February 19, 1853 in Indiana, the son of Robert and Triphineia Bare. He came to Iowa with his parents as a small boy, locating a Pleasantville. Later he was wed to Elizabeth MacCormick in Warren county and they moved to a farm in Adair where they remained a year and a half, then moving to Winterset. From 1883 to 1889 he spent in South Dakota on a farm then returning to Winterset and went into business in 1890.
He is survived by one son, Ben Bare of Winterset; one grandson, Major Robert O. Bare of the U. S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia; one great-granddaughter; three brothers and one sister; Dr. E. A. Bare, Pleasantville; O. H. Bare, Pleasantville; William Fosher, Estherville and Mrs. Mammie Wallis of Oregon. His wife preceded him in death on June 7, 1920.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon, today, at 2:30 in the Anderson funeral home. Rev. W. A. Samp, pastor of the Methodist church, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Winterset cemetery.
_________________________Coordinator's note: The Bare homestead was near Pleasantville, Marion County, not Warren County.
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