This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ARTHUR, CASNER, FULLER, FOLEY, GOODEN, GOODWIN, HARSHMAN, OOLEY Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4572 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, December 15, 1921, Volume XLVI, Number 1, Page 5, Columns 3 & 4, “DEATH’S HARVEST—BARNES.” [Transcribed 7 June 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] James BARNES, aged seventy six, a veteran of the Civil War, and one of the few remaining members of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at his home in Worthington, Saturday morning at 4:15 o’clock, cancer being the chief cause of his death. He was born in Barnesville, Ohio, February 27, 1845. When he was ten years of age he became a resident of Greene County, where all his life was lived with the exception of the years spent in the army, and six years in Owen County. He was a member of COMPANY A, 97TH {REGIMENT} INDIANA {VOLUNTEER} INFANTRY, which engaged in some of the mighty conflicts of the war between the sections. On April 5, 1866, he was married to Eliza A. OOLEY, of this county. He joined the Methodist church at Spencer in 1914. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Newark. He is survived by the following sons, daughters and relatives: Mrs. Lillie F. HARSHMAN and Mrs. Ida A. GOODWIN, Bloomfield; Mrs. F. K. BARNES, Freedom; Henry J. BARNES, Spencer; Mrs. Elsie GOODEN and Orville GOODEN, Indianapolis; Mrs. Etta FOLEY and C. L. BARNES, Warba, Minnesota; a sister, Ellen SULLIVAN, Ottawa, Kansas; two half sisters, Mrs. Eliza FULLER, Bloomington, and Mrs. Ida ARTHUR, Lyons; five half brothers, Saul CASNER, Weston, Missouri; George and Byron CASNER, Newark; L. R. CASNER, Worthington; Grant CASNER, Columbus, Ohio; thirty-four grandchildren and twenty-three great-grandchildren.