This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HORTON LINDSEY BARKER HARPER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BBk.2ACIB/2381 Message Board Post: (Note -- based on the obituary mentioned for Myrtle Barker, this is Leonard Horton writing the letter. vjf) Subject: [ALClebur] newspaper abstracts for February 7th thru February 14th 1929 from The Cleburne News Date: 5/26/2005 9:53:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: tealtree@comcast.net To: ALCLEBUR-L@rootsweb.com "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, February 7, 1929 FORMER CITIZEN NOW IN CANADA Waintwright, Alta, Canada January 28, 1929 The Cleburne News, I received your paper on January 10th which told the sad news of the death of my niece, Miss Myrtle Barker and to the family we extend our sincere sympathy in their great bereavement. When I get to reading the Cleburne News I see so many names of people I knew when I was only a small boy; it surely makes me m my childhood days and it seems almost impossible to figure that it has been 40 years since Della Lindsey and I were married. As some know, she is a sister of Drs. W.H. and J.M. Lindsey. My wife's father and mother and my father have long since passed on; but I am happy to say that my dear mother is still living. My family and I have been in Canada since 1906. I can't say I don't like Canada. There is one thing I can say, and that is it gets mighty cold here at times. We have had a very mild winter until the 5th of January when he had 30 to 57 below zero, lasting for several days. It is not uncommon to meet people with their noses frost-bitten. I hope Alec Harper has regained his health and that we will be permitted to go fishing and squirrel hunting again on Cane Creek. I wish all my friends in good old Cleburne a happy and prosperous year. J. L. Horton [Transcribed by Candace (Teal) Gravelle 26 May 2005]