OBIT: Jane (HAMILTON) BARR, 1878, Alexandria, Huntingdon County, PA

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OBITUARY - On Friday morning last, Mrs. Jane H. Barr, wife of Rev. J. 
C. Barr, pastor of the Alexandria, Huntingdon county Presbyterian 
church, departed this life at her home in that place, after an illness 
of but four days.  Her age was fifty years less seventeen days.  The 
disease which so hurriedly called her from earthly pleasures and cares 
was Malignant Sore Throat, from which she suffered severely.  On Sunday 
prior to her illness and death, she occupied her place in the choir of 
her husband's church and was in her place as Sabbath school teacher.  
Her remains were interred in the cemetery adjoining Alexandria on 
Monday, the concourse of relatives and friends being very large.  Rev. 
Dr. Wilson, of Birmingham, conducted the services, Dr. Moore, Rev. 
Kelly, of Spruce Creek, and Rev. Peters, of Alexandria, assisting.  The 
deceased was born in Florence, Washington county, Pa.  She graduated at 
the Washington Female Seminary in early life and afterwards taught in 
the South some five years - two in South Carolina and two in Kentucky.  
Married in Ohio in 1855, Mr. and Mrs. Barr removed to Illinois in the 
same year, where they remained some sixteen years.  Mr. Barr received a 
call from the Alexandria Presbyterian church and located at that place 
about six and a half years ago, which congregation and community 
generally is now mourning the loss of an earnest co-worker of her 
husband in the cause of Christ, as well as a good, kind and 
entertaining neighbor and friend.  Besides her husband, two children, a 
girl and a boy, survive her, as well as a sister, who has made her home 
with the family for many years, and other sisters and brothers residing 
in the west.  Mr. S. W. Barr and Mrs. J. M. Harper of this place, are 
brother and sister of Rev. Barr. Thus endeth the earthly career of an 
affectionate and faithful wife, mother, sister and friend, who has 
soared into the regions beyond to realize the truth of the last thought 
- life everlasting - written by her husband while engaged at preparing 
a sermon for last Sabbath, and which was abruptly stopped when but half 
finished, by her request, while suffering from the increasing severity 
of the pain attending the disease which so soon proved fatal.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., April 4, 1878

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