Annie Barnes (1862-1942)

BARNES

Posted By: Debra Scott Hierlmeier (email)
Date: 12/2/2008 at 21:53:04

Mrs. Annie Blake Barnes 1862-1942

Mrs. Annie Blake Barnes, a Pottawattamie county pioneer died at the Florence home in Omaha, Friday morning October 2, two days before the sixtieth anniversary of her marriage to the late Merritt Barnes. Death resulted from embolum (sic) with which she was stricken September 26.

Mrs. Barnes was born at Crescent in 1862. After spending her early childhood in crescent, Loveland and Council Bluffs she went with her parents to Avoca at the age of 14 years and made her home continuously there except for two years spent in Oakland until going to the Florence home. She was married to Merritt Barnes October 4, 1882.

Surviving Mrs. Barnes are two sons: Harrie Walter of Raleigh, N.C and Frank Merritt of Chicago; three granddaughters, one grandson, one brother, Walter G. Blake of Evanston, Illinois; two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Sapulding and Miss Helen Blake of Avoca.

Services were held Monday in the Congregational church, the Rev Ivan C. Bachtell conducting the service. Burial was in the Crescent cemetery.

From the Scrapbooks of Bessie Gross Gustafsen
Source: Avoca Journal Herald