OBIT: Henry Metler BAREFOOT, 1937, native of Bedford County, PA

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H. M. BAREFOOT, BEDFORD COUNTY, CALLED BY DEATH

Retired Pleasantville Farmer, 77, Had Been Ill Seven Weeks

BURIAL TOMORROW

  PLEASANTVILLE, Nov. 9. Henry Metler Barefoot, retired Bedford County farmer 
and member of one of the pioneer families of this district, died at 5 o'clock 
yesterday morning at his home in Pleasantville. The deceased had been in ill 
health for the past seven weeks. He was 77 years old.
  Henry Metler Barefoot was born March 13, 1860, in Bedford County in an old log 
house near Pleasantville, which had been built by his grandfather in 1770. He 
was a son of Samuel and Anna M. (Horne) Barefoot. Mr. Barefoot lived in the old 
log house, one of the first built in this district, until it was destroyed by 
fire three years ago when he retired from farming and moved to Pleasantville. 
His wife died in 1934.
  The following children survive: Earl and Mrs. Ethel Adams, Pleasantville; Mrs. 
Viola Replogle, Roaring Spring; Mrs. Lavina Imler, Seminole, Okla.; Mrs. 
Elizabeth Berkheimer, Tiffin, O.; Durbin Barefoot, Imler; Elwood Barefoot, 
Johnstown; Mrs. Thelma [E]ash, Windber, and Mrs. Hattie Croyle [Corle - ed.], 
Dale Borough.
  Four brothers and two sisters of Mr. Barefoot are still living. They are John 
S. Barefoot, Pleasantville; Howard Barefoot, Johnstown; Albert Barefoot, 
Pleasantville; Burgess Blaine Barefoot, Windber; Mrs. Rebecca Reynolds, 
Summerhill, and Mrs. Bertha Ling, Windber.
  Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the 
home of his son, Earl, by Rev. Martin Kaufman, pastor of the Pleasantville 
Evangelical Church. Burial will be in Pleasantville Cemetery under the direction 
of S. Alton Barefoot, Bedford mortician.

Tribune, Johnstown, PA, Tuesday, 9 November 1937, p. 4