Mary Barger (1892)

BARGER, WELSH

Posted By: Cay Merryman (email)
Date: 7/23/2004 at 19:48:03

February 1892

Mrs. Mary (Welsh) Barger, was born in Pennsylvania, August 27, 1814 and died at St. Charles, Iowa, Feb. 3, 1892, being 77 years, 5 months, and 6 days old.

She was for 55 years a member of the Presbyterian church. She was married to A. V. Barger near the Ridge church in Harrison county, Ohio on May 22, 1840, and lived with him as his wife almost 52 years. Her death was the first in their family in all those years, and she leaves four children, all church members, and with families of their own; and twenty-six grandchildren. The last twelve years of her life were spent in St. Charles and vicinity.

For the last thirty years she was a great sufferer from a running sore on her left foot caused by erysipelas. She was a woman of strong faith and great patience - a great reader of the Bible, and particularly liked the Psalms. When asked of her hope for the future, though suffering very severly and knowing that she was soon to die, she said that her hope was good, and she only wished she could be relieved of "this pain".

The funeral was held at the Ohio Baptist church, of which some of the immediate descendants are members, and the burial was in the graveyard near by. W. R. Baldridge, Officiating Minister

Note: burial was in the Worthing Cemetery.