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| James Harrison Barnes |
© Cheyenne Star |
| Submitted by: Wanda Purcell |
James Harrison Barnes, 84, a western Oklahoma resident since 1901, died
Monday June 15, 1970 in the Sayre Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 17, 1970 at 2:30 p.m. in the
Sayre Church of Christ, with Jerry Pospisil and Tom Kent officiating.
Mr. Barnes was born November 28, 1885, in Harris, Missouri, and came with his parents to western Oklahoma in 1901 by train and covered wagon. The
family settled near Berlin where Mr. Barnes helped to build the family
home, hauling lumber from Granite and Mangum with a team and wagon.
Mr. Barnes worked for his father hauling freight from Sayre for the family store in Berlin.
He was married April 28, 1907, to Nellie Ann Atwood at
Berlin.
He farmed in the Berlin community until 1956 when he retired and
moved to Sayre.
He was a member of the Church of Christ.
He is survived by his wife, 1904 North Sixth, Sayre, Oklahoma; three
daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Zeigler of Bluff City, Kansas; Mrs. Faye Heim of
Amberst, Texas; Mrs. Neolna Campbell of Berlin; three sons, John W. of Wichita,
Kansas; Hobert of New Haven, Connecticut; and Norman of Oklahoma City; fourteen
grandchildren and nine great grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. Annah Davenport of
Sayre; Mrs. Esthel Howell of Oklahoma City; Mrs. Ammel Miller of El Paso,
Texas; Mrs. Opal Miller of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Mrs. Freda Alexander of
Portland, Oregon.
Burial was in the Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
with Rose Chapel Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
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