South Nodaway High School - Corral Yearbook (Barnard, MO)

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Mr A G Wells served as executor of the founders estate Life treated Mr Barnard kmdly and all of h1s mdustrxous and energetic days were gxven to a usefulness of the hlghest order When the pressure of the passing yeals came mexorablv upon hlm and hls sunset days drew near he sought a supposedly more salubrlous chme and re moved ln 1905 to southern Calzforma Hls last domlclle was establlshed at 2711 Ellendale Street Cnow Ellendale Place about 4 blocks longj m Los Angeles On a full hfes culmination he d1ed there at 1 40 pm Sunday 6 February 1910 havlng been 1ll since the precedmg m1d October of a fatty and enlarged heart and chrome lnterstltlal nephritis His mortal rema1ns were 1nterred 8 Feb 1910 by Bresee Brothers Co undertakers 1n Sectxon 12 Lot 374 of Hollywood Memorxal Cemeterv on Santa Momca Boulevard Los Angeles where ln a beautlful settlng of bougamvlllae and oleanders and crepe myrtles he sleeps the just slumbers of a splendld and an honorable man In every lnstance the comp1lers of this memolr have had to depend on 0mCl3.l court records or on abstractors copies or the lxke of all ma ter1als hence not a smgle orxgxnal document bearmg the sngnature of Mr Barnard has appeared else this would have been shown herewith ln replica It may well be that the famlly papers of some local resldent may yet yleld an actual warranty deed showmg the first purchase of a lot ln Barnard or some other comparable conveyance or xndenture or contract etc 1n first manuscrlpt may sometlme be discovered m which event we would be happy to present a facs1m1l1e of 1ts speclmen of Mr Bamards autograph we could well expect It to show the neat and leglble penmanshxp of the precxsxon mmded engineer whom the man himself so ably personified ,Q . . . 1 , , . . . 1 1 . . - ' v 4 , . . D 9 .1 . . 1 v ' . . . . .. . . 1 1 . , . . . . , , . . ., . . . . - 1 1 1 ' . . . . .. , . . . . 9 11 1 'I . . . 1 1 1 .1 . . . . A 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . 1 - 1 . . . . . . . . 1 1 . . . . . . 1 '1 1 . .. . . 1 , - 1 . . . . . .

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dld hxlltop property s1te 129 x 240 feet on whxch he buxlt a hand some and exceedmgly commodlous resxdence for h1S large famlly And he buxlt solxdly and well for this structure somewhat remodelled IS s xll extant as The General Osteopathxc Hospztal at 117 South 15th Street St Joseph lt had been purchased Q S18 000 00 by Dr A L and Hrs Mattie Gray 1n 1911 per warranty deed from Mrs J ulxa Boswell Barn ard et al and qult clalm deed from Abbxe Ingalls Barnard and guard lan s deed from Helena Barnard On 21 Aprll 1853 Mr Barnard marrxed Gertrude Agnes Harvey Cof Bath England D she dled 25 March 1865 leavmg four chxldren Hls second marrlage 28 Aprll 1868 was to Juha Boswell Keefer of Galt Ontarlo and thls unlon bore seven chlldren Exght of Mr Barnards duced prmclpally from hrs wxll for no obrtuary notlces have come to lxght were Wldow Juha Boswell Keefer Barnard born m 1840 she dred m 1915 and her rema1ns were lnterred bes1de h1s Sons Archer F Barnard John Alfred Barnard born IH 1861 widower d1ed 13 Nov 1910 and IS burled 1n the famxly lot Wxlfred K Barnard Robert Chr1st1e Barnard Wlfe Helen Barnard Hamxlton County Ohlo Each of these four sons be ame a rallroad man Daughters Helena Barnard C1858 1942 J Ethel M Barnard marr1ed George C Bushnell 1n Grant County N Mex Annle Barnard marr1ed John Wells Alameda County Calxf Gertrude B Bamard marr1edA G Wells they lxved near by at 2637 Ellendale Street, Los Angeles Callf and 7 . , , v . . - 2 1 1 lf 7 , 5 ' , , . , . . . . . A . I . l ' I, . . . v a ' v . 1 1 ' . 1 l 1 . 7 ! I I ' l . ! . i 1 . l 1 eleven progeny reached adult life and maturityg his survivors as de- J ' . 1 ' , ' . ' Q , . 7 . ! I l . '! , . . . Q . , , . ! I ' V., ll I V7 : , - . . , . , . . . , . ' , . . . , ' . . p ' - l 7 ' '!

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SOLRCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REI-'EPENCES Rutt Chrlstlan Ludwxg compller and ed1tor H1St0YX of Buchanan County and the Cltv of St Joseph and Representatlve Cltlzens Isecond ed1t1on D 1826 to 1904 Ch1cago Bxographlcal Pubhshmg' Co 1904 thlck 4to pp 178 343 344 A so called mug book Nason Henry B Bxographlcal Record of the Officels and Gladuates of the Rensselaer Polvtechnlc Instltute 1894 1886 Trox N Y Abstract of tltle to propertv at 117 South 15th Street St Joseph 11118301111 The Barnard Clty Company s Artlcles of Assoclatlon and plat 'md sundry memo concernmg the slte of Barnard NIISSOUPI filed m the Of fices of the County Clerk and of the Recorder of Deeds of Nodaway County Mlssourl Maryvllle Mlssourl Death Certlficate No 10 003745 279 173 1n Local Reglstratlon D1st11ct 517 filed 7 Febr 1910 Bureau of Vital St3t1St1CS State of Cahfolma Dept of Pubhc Health 631 J Stleet Sacramento 14 Cahf 'Ur Barnards Wlll probated as No 15947 1n the Ferguson Bldg 307 South Hill Street Los Angeles Callf CF1led QITOHEOUSIX under the name Bernard xn the Hall of Pecords Cmc Centerj Bresee Bros 81 Glllette mortlclans 950 W Washmgton Blvd Los Angeles Cahf office records and memoranda St Joseph Mo clty d1rector1es 1867 1905 Los Angeles Cal1f cxty dxrectorxes 1905 1910 . t . . .... . V 1 1 - . ' Y . . . . 1 - 1 , -1 1 u 11 . . , . ' ' . 1 -1 ' . 1 ' ' 1 . 1 - f . ' 1 ' 1 . . V, . . . 1 1 I 1 - 1 ' 1 1 1 - . - - - , 1 -1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 , . . A . , 1 . 1 ., 1 1 - . - u 11 ' - ,' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 - -1 1 -1 - . , ., , ' . . . . . , 1 '1 1 ' -