Barnett: Died of pneumonia, May 14, 1889, S.E. Barnett the wife of F. Barnett, at their home in Cleveland Co., Ark. She was very violently attached from the exordium, and the malignancy of the disease continued to the final termination, notwithstanding every available effort was used by her many relatives and friends and her physician to arrest the rapid and destructive strides of her disease. Mrs. Barnett was born January 5, 1847, in Jackson Parish, La. She was baptized in infancy. She became a member of the M.E. Church, South, early in life and lived a consistent Christian life. She united herself to the same branch of the church after removing to Cleveland Co., Ark., in 1869, under the pastorate of Rev. E. Ware. She is gone to Jesus whom she testified repeatedly during her severe illness that she had trusted. It is a severe trial to witness the victory of death over our race one by one, yet to behold as I did and many others in the very act of dissolution of Mrs. Barnett, how cool, calm and self-possessed she was, then confronting grim Death--such a scene, at least to me, is as indeed a buoyant inspiration of hope and a glorious excitant to renewed faith in Jesus our Lord and Master, who gives the victory, "Blessed are they that die in the Lord." Such a scene to me is indeed a feast of which I have been an eyewitness many times. Mrs. Barnett's remains were interred in Shady Grove cemetery. Her friend, J.W.A. Arkansas Methodist Newspaper May 29, 1889 page 7 col 3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com