John R. Barnes (1860-1933)

BARNES, BEIRIES, GRANDGEORGE, HARTSOCK, HOPKINS, RANSFORD, ROPER, SCHWIND, STREIT, WESTBROOK

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:46

The Eagle Grove Eagle
Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, January 19, 1933
Page 6, Column 3

John R. Barnes, youngest son of Mary Ann and Emery Barnes was born at the family home one mile north of Goldfield February 12, 1860, and died at the hospital in Cherokee, January 12, 1933.

John was educated in the district school and took up farming. For some time, he farmed his own land 2½ miles north of Goldfield. In the summer of 1882, while helping to harvest wheat on his mother’s farm he had a sunstroke, the effects of which he never fully recovered. He was in his usual health until Thursday when he was suddenly stricken.

There are left to mourn his passing; one sister-in-law, Mrs. Emma Barnes, Canon City, Colo., eight nieces, Mrs. Ella Schwind of Dubuque, Mrs. Lucy Grandgeorge, Mrs. Emma Ransford, Mrs. Aureal Beiries of Eagle Grove; Mrs. Rose and Jessie Hartsock of Goldfield; Mrs. Marie Roper, Beulah, Colo., Mrs. Ruth Streit, Canon City, Colo.; eight nephews, Messrs. Clyde, Roy, Ross, Lloyd and Don Westbrook of San Antonio Texas; Robert Westbrook of Hollywood, Calif., Emory Hopkins of Red Oak and Roy Barnes of St. Joseph, Mo.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the home of the Misses Rose and Jessie Hartsock in Goldfield under the direction of Rev. W. S. Handy of the Methodist church. The text of the sermon was taken from I Cor. 15.51—Behold I show you a Mystery. Interment was made in the Goldfield cemetery.