This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BARKER HORTON LOWERY BARNES KING BROWN WILLIAMSON HARPER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BBk.2ACIB/2380 Message Board Post: NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, January 10, 1929 FINAL RITES FOR MISS BARKER No death has occurred in our town, community or county that caused more sorrow and heart aches than the passing of Miss Myrtle Barker, beautiful and accomplished daughter of Mrs. Beckie Barker who died in a Birmingham hospital Thursday night, following a brief illness. On Christmas Eve, Miss Myrtle went to Birmingham to visit with relatives and friends and was suddenly stricken and removed to a hospital, pneumonia having developed. Physicians were unable to give relief to the sufferer, death coming to relieve her pain. Miss Myrtle was a splendid christian girl, whose influence for good will live on and on. Not only in the memory of her brother and sisters but of hosts of admiring friends and aquaintances, and in their homes, in her church, in the town and community, there is a deep sense of loss felt at Miss Myrtle's going away. But over their sorrowing hearts comes a hush and there is breathed those comforting words, "well done, thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things, enter thou into the joys of the lord." Miss Myrtle was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Heflin and an earnest worker in the Epworth League; also she was a member of the local Eastern Star which order took charge of the services at the church, following talks by Rev. W.S. Wessinger, pastor of the Heflin Methodist Episcopal church, South, and Rev. Hobart Murphree, her former pastor. The surviving sisters are: Mrs. Hessie Lowery of Birmingham Mrs. Zelma Barnes of Heflin Misses Ruth, Nelle and Laura Barker One brother, Neal Barker of Nauvoo, Ala The Uncles are Leonard Horton residing in Canada; Ansley, Asa, Ellis and Toy Horton of Quitman, Texas; and Mrs. Lizzie King, Mrs. Hattie Brown of Quitman, Tx and Mrs. N.R. Williamson of Buchanan, Ga and Mrs. A.D. Harper of Heflin are surviving Aunts. Mrs. Elizabeth Horton, the grandmother, now near age 86, resides near Quitman, Texas. The interment was in the cemetery at Upper Cane Creek on Sunday. (Transcribed 5/25/2005 by Candace [Teal] Gravelle)