Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/10212 Surname: Barnett ------------------------- No connection Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas Friday, July 30, 1926 IN MEMORIAN Prof. S. M. BARNETT was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina Dec. 24, 1856. At the age of two his parents moved to Mississippi where they resided 28 years. He recieved his education in the Cooper Institute in Mississippi and became a tutor in that college at the age of 18. He was after wards elected Principle of Marion Academy in Mississippi where he taught until the family moved to Texas in 1886. Having a thorough education, Mr. BARNETT spent 30 years teaching in the public schools of Mississippi and Texas. Nor was his lifes work in vein he realized early in life that his talent layed in Literary work. This he persuded faithfully until he passed away July 9, 1926. His life was one of true manhood. True first to his creator, second to his relatives who were from the tinest to the oldest very dear to him, then to his host of friends he had endeared in his profession. To know Mr. BARNETT was to love him. He was of that kind, gentle disposition who never found fault in mankind. In his immense vocabulary there were not a single word to be used of ill repute against anyone. With him all was sublime and beautiful, just as hee was said about his sister on her passing away. Thoughts she may have had but in looking back upon by gone days, I fell to reconize them, I can truly say of him. Though our heads are bowed in sorrow and humility over this sudden grief we must remember the bolt of lightening that caused his death came from the same creative power from whence. He came in anguish we shall say, not my will, but thinu be done. Leaves have their time to fall and flowers to wither at the North winds breath, and stars to set but all thou haze all seasons, for thine own all death. Mrs. Felix B. Compton